BiographyEdit
Prior to releasing her first album as a singer, Jordan was a backing vocalist for
The Box[1]and a songwriter for other artists, most notably writing
Michael Breen's hit single "Rain".
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She released her debut album,
Tell Somebody, in 1988 on
Atlantic Records, and had hit singles in Canada with "Double Trouble", "Stranger Than Paradise" and the title track.
[1]In 1989, her cover of the
rhythm & blues song "
Rescue Me" was featured on the soundtrack to the film
American Boyfriends.
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She followed up in 1992 with
Racine, and had further hits with "Make You a Believer",
[5] "I Want to Believe", "You Don't Have to Remind Me" and "Goin’ Back Again".
[1] In the same year, Jordan performed a duet with
Joe Cocker for the soundtrack of the motion picture
The Bodyguard.
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Her third album,
Rats (1994), featured the singles "High Road Easy" and "Sun's Gonna Rise", but underperformed on the charts compared to her first two albums.
[1] At her record label's request, she adopted a more pop-oriented sound for her next two albums,
Present (1997) and
Hot Gossip (2000), but failed to replicate her earlier success.
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Jordan then played the lead role of
Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway hit
Love, Janis in 2001,
[1] guest starred on
Sisters and
Corner Gas, and performed in the Toronto and Winnipeg productions of
The Vagina Monologues.
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In 2003, she became a judge on
Canadian Idol, and remained so for the show's entire run.
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In 2012 Jordan was appointed
honorary colonel of
417 Combat Support Squadron,
[6]an appointment she held until
Glen Suitor's appointment in August 2016.
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