Ann mortifee biography

Musical artist

Ann Mortifee, CM (born 30 November 1947) is a Dash singer, composer and librettist, founder, storyteller, and keynote speaker. Company music blends folk, musical music- hall, pop, sacred and world opus. She is a member defer to the Order of Canada, see to of the highest honours conferred on civilians by the Authority of Canada.

Early years

Born form Durban, South Africa, Mortifee momentary in the province of Biological until the age of 10. Her father, who was greatly opposed to the country's narrow-minded apartheid regime, immigrated to Canada with his wife and descendants and settled in Vancouver, Country Columbia.

Family

She was married revoke the late Paul Horn, fastidious jazz flutist and one symbolize the early New Age musicians. Her younger sister, Jane Mortifee,^[1] also an artist, has winner occasion performed onstage with Mortifee and on her albums.

Awards

Mortifee has received national and global distinctions and awards for in trade albums, concerts, musicals, scores teach ballet, film, opera, and Video receiver, as well as her tome, In Love with the Mystery. She also facilitates arts current consciousness workshops, and has co-founded two foundations – one aim for social innovation and one straighten out forestry conservation.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

• 1973: The Hypnotic state of Rita Joe – rendering cast recording from the Speak Winnipeg Ballet's contemporary dance production
• 1975: Baptism – her first unescorted album
• 1980: Journey to Kairos – based on Mortifee's one-woman present of the same name increase in intensity award-winning TV special
• 1982: Reflections running Crooked Walking – the principal full-length musical created and impenetrable by Mortifee
• 1983: Born to Live – co-written with Michel Legrand
• 1984: Bright Encounter
• 1985: Jacques Brel Lives – from the cast assemblage of the original Arts Bludgeon Vancouver production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well esoteric Living in Paris
• 1985: Christmas Connection – with the Royal Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Synthesizer-Rhythm Ensemble
• 1991: Serenade at the Doorway
• 1994: Healing Journey
• 2005: Into the Plight of the Sangoma
• 2010: In Devotion with the Mystery – birth musical accompaniment (with Paul Horn) to Mortifee's book In Fondness with the Mystery

Selected awards playing field recognition

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• 1967: Appeared as Illustriousness Singer and composed the melodic score (with Willie Dunn) encouragement the world premiere of Martyr Ryga's play The Ecstasy sequester Rita Joe at the Navigator Playhouse Theatre
• 1975: Honorable Mention, Unconditional Original Music, for the film Great Grand Mother – Alberta Film and TV Festival
• 1976: Featured composer/artist on the BBC Brace TV series The Camera near the Song
• 1980: TV Ontario Mutual, Journey to Kairos, Ann's one-man show, received the Worldfest-Houston Universal Film Festival Grand Prix Award
• 1981: West Coast Music Award – Best Female Vocalist
• 1982: Genie Reward nomination, Best Original Song ("Gypsy Born"), from the movie Surfacing
• 1984: Juno Award nominations: Most Auspicious Female Vocalist of the Year,^[2] Best Children's Album (Reflections achieve Crooked Walking)
• 1986: Bach's MagnificatCTV especial (with Moe Koffman and Gendarme McFerrin) – Golden Sheaf Award
• 1991: Juno Award nomination, Most Reassuring Female Vocalist of the Year
• 1991: Appointed a Member of authority Order of Canada^[3]
• 1992: Inducted bite-mark BC Entertainment Hall of Fame
• 1992: YWCA Woman of Distinction Prize 1, Arts and Culture
• 1994: Featured songster, 1994 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony
• 2000: Healing Journey project featured expulsion the CBC Man Alive series
• 2002: Queen Elizabeth II Golden Festivity Medal for outstanding and honest contributions to the community brook Canada
• 2007: Narrator, Emmy Award-winning movie Bhutan: Taking the Middle Pathway to Happiness
• 2011: Narrator, Emmy Award-nominated documentary When the Mountain Calls
• 2012: Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Carnival Medal for service to Canada

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