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Jane Richmond Hyslop (born 15 February 1967), known professionally as Jane Child, is a Canadian singer, songwriter and record-producer best known for her hit single "Don't Wanna Fall in Love".[1] She is also known for her unusual fashion style, which included a hairstyle made of spikes and ankle-length braids and a nose chain piercing.

Jane Child
Birth name	Jane Richmond Hyslop
Born	(1967-02-15) 15 February 1967 (age 55) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Freestyle pop R&B synth-pop rock
Occupation(s)	Singer songwriter record producer
Years active	1987–2007
Labels	Warner Bros. Sugarwave
Website	http://www.janechild.com/

Early life

Child was born in Toronto, and is the daughter of noted Canadian classical musician Ricky Hyslop while her mother was a singer and pianist.[2] Child was raised Jewish and Christian,[3] and was classically trained as a pianist during her youth. Her parents taught her how to play and sing by kindergarten. Her first record she ever owned was the Beatles Rubber Soul, as purchased by her father so that she would learn the arrangement of Michelle.[2] Her exposure to funk music came from having christmases in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and listening to local music there on the beaches.[4]

At age 12 she joined the Canadian Opera Company's children's chorus, and soon after piano study briefly at the Royal Conservatory of Music under Samuel Dolin.[5][6] At age 15 she dropped out of school despite good grades, while seeking a summer job she saw an ad in a newspaper for a band looking for a keyboardist, which she applied for and joined. It was a touring rock and roll band of Deadheads known as Summerhill where they played remote northern Canadian towns and she was paid $25 a week.[7][3] She played the synthesizer, piano, and organ, and sang in their shows for over 45 weeks in their first year together.[8] She also had various musical jobs such as organist at the Anglican church in her neighbourhood, as well as piano bars, piano for ballet classes, organ at horse-shows,[8] and doing commercial jingles.[4]

Career

Eventually Child cut a demo tape in Hamilton, Ontario with an engineer who owned the studio where the jingles took place.[2] With a low budget she would bus out to the studio and play all the instruments herself. Her entertainment lawyer had a client who was a partner in a New York based production company who heard the tape which led to a signing, relocating her to New York and then Los Angeles.[8] Adamant on producing her own music, Child left the label. After a bidding war with 13 other labels, she settled with Warner Bros. Records, who agreed to sign her on her own terms. At this time she was struggling to pay bills despite extravagant nights out for label meetings.[8] One of her first close breaks was with a publishing company who placed a song she wrote to Maurice White, although in the end he did not take the record despite liking it.[4]

Her debut album, Jane Child, released in 1989, was fully written and produced by Child, who also performed all the vocals and played all the instruments (except for the guitar parts), a rarity for a debut artist signed to a major label. Due to her musical style and her emphasis on control over her music, she was at the time labelled by the press as "the female Prince".[9]

She is best known for the hit single "Don't Wanna Fall in Love",[10] which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990.[11] The song was also a big hit on the R&B chart - a rarity for a white artist - peaking at No. 6. Her previous single, "Welcome to the Real World", was a modest hit, peaking at No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100.[12]

In 1993, she released her second album, Here Not There. In the album, she broadened her R&B sound to mix it with traces of rock, grunge, and Eastern music. The album and its singles were commercial failures, and she was dropped from the label and kept a low profile for the rest of the decade, releasing a few collaborations with Japanese artists in that country.

Her third album, Surge,[13] was released in early 2002 on her own label Sugarwave.[14] Previously in 2001, she re-recorded the song "World Lullabye" from her debut album and sold the single through her website, all proceeds were donated to the Twin Towers Fund.

She recorded a cover of Tina Turner's "We Don't Need Another Hero" for a tribute album, What's Love? A Tribute to Tina Turner, released in 2004.

In the Just Dance franchise she contributed vocals in cover songs for Just Dance 2016 and Just Dance 2017.

Artistry

Child's look was inspired from African and East Indian cultures, as well as the punk movement, which came from living amongst these diasporas in Toronto. Her notable hair style, which she started at the age of 17,[8] would be redone once a month by 3 women taking 14 hours to do.[4] Her musical influences included Stevie Wonder, the Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Public Enemy, Mozart, and Indian music. While for writing it came from Ayn Rand, and John Steinbeck and live influences came from artists like Alicia de Larrocha whom she saw at Massey Hall, as well as Glenn Gould at the Carlu.[7]

Child would do her own cataloguing for programming, including the samples and sequences, often for 14 hours at a time. She writes left handed and would sing as she wrote, also coming up the bass line with her left hand. In studio some of the gear she used included Fairlight, Sequential Prophet 5 and T-8, LinnDrum, E-mu SP12, Synclavier, Roland MSQ-700 and the Roland SBX-80. For tours her gear included a Minimoog, a Solina (ARP String Ensemble), a Mini-Korg, a Hammond B3 with a Leslie 145, and a Yamaha CP-70 electric grand.[7]

Personal life

Child has been married to Cat Gray, the chief musician on Let's Make a Deal, since 2004.

She has two brothers.[2]

In 1990 she purchased the 1917 Los Angeles house of Vidah Bickford, a locally based guitarist and mandolinist.[7] She enjoys collecting Citroens and antiques.[4]

Awards and Nominations

Award	Year	Nominee(s)	Category	Result	Ref.
Juno Awards	1991	Herself	Most Promising Female Vocalist	Nominated	[15]
			Songwriter of the Year	Nominated
			Producer of the Year	Nominated
		"Don't Wanna Fall in Love"	Dance Recording of the Year	Won
MTV Video Music Awards	1990		Best New Artist in a Video	Nominated	[16]

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

Year	Title	Label	Peak chart positions
			US [17]	US R&B [18]
1989	Jane Child	Warner Bros.	49	40
1993	Here Not There[5]		—	—
2002	Surge	Sugarwave	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Remix albums

Year	Title	Label
2002	Surge Remixed	Sugarwave

Singles

As lead artist

Year	Title	Album	Label	Peak chart positions
				CA	US [12]	US Dance [12]	US R&B [12]	UK [19]	AUS [20]
1989	"Welcome to the Real World"	Jane Child	Warner Bros.	59	49	―	―	―	―
1990	"Don't Wanna Fall in Love"			4	2	11	6	22	97
1992	"Mona Lisa Smiles"	Here Not There		―	―	―	―	―	―
1993	"Here Not There"			―	―	―	―	―	―
	"Do Whatcha Do"			―	―	―	―	―	―
	"Perfect Love"			―	―	―	―	―	―
1994	"All I Do"			80	―	25	―	―	―
2001	"World Lullabye 2001"	Non-album single	Sugarwave	―	―	―	―	―	―
	"Almost Beautiful"	Surge		―	―	―	―	―	―
2002	"Nice Day"			―	―	―	―	―	―
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

As featured artist

Year	Title	Label
1998	"Maybe Tomorrow" (Tomohiko Nishimura feat. Jane Child)	Fun House

References

External links

• Official website
• Jane Child at AllMusic
• Jane Child discography at Discogs
• Jane Child discography at MusicBrainz

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Jane Child (* 15. Februar 1967 in Toronto, Ontario) ist eine kanadische Sängerin, Musikproduzentin und Multiinstrumentalistin.

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