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| Birth Name(s) : Tegan & Sara |
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Full Tegan & Sara Biography
Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Kiersten Quin (born September 19, 1980, identical twins) are Canadian singer-songwriters, performing as Tegan and Sara.
When they were competing in Garage Warz, the duo was known as "Sara and Tegan" because when contacted at the last minute and asked for a name Tegan just said "Well we're just Sara and Tegan.." and they were registered with their names in that order. Their first album, Under Feet Like Ours, was initially released under the name "Sara and Tegan"; copies are now a sought-after commodity among their fans.
The twins tell comic stories on stage, a throwback to when they didn't have a lot of material but still wanted to give people a full show.
While both twins are similarly involved in vocals and playing instruments, the singing of the lead melody often goes to whichever twin wrote the particular song. Sara has been quoted saying that Tegan writes songs prolifically, "like a fish lays eggs," eventually discarding most of them. Sara's songs, on the other hand, evolve slowly and methodically and almost always make it onto the record.
In 2004, Matt Sharp and Maya Rudolph of The Rentals recorded a cover version of Tegan and Sara's song "Not Tonight" and released it for free on the World Wide Web. Sharp also played moog on "So Jealous".
In 2005, The White Stripes did a cover of Tegan and Sara's song "Walking with a Ghost" which was released on the Walking with a Ghost EP by the group. "Walking with a Ghost" was also used in a mashup dance remix bootleg by Party Ben with a song by Mylo, "Paris Four Hundred," under the title "Walking with a Ghost In Paris", which became a sought after club track after an influential dance radio station in the United States, C-89.5/KNHC/Seattle, Washington, started playing the song. Also in 2005 they did a cover of Cyndi Lauper's version of Prince's "When You Were Mine".
In 2006, the duo also contributed a track to Australian radio station Triple J's "Like A Version" radio programme - a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark". The track was released on a compilation disc of that programme's songs, "Like A Version, Volume 2".
Tegan has contributed backup vocals to "The Alphabet" by Vivek Shraya, "Never Give Up" by Melissa Ferrick, "La Le La La" by Kinnie Starr, "Hey Kids" by David Usher, "Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart" by Against Me!, and "Saturday" by Rachael Cantu.
In 2007, Sara contributed backup vocals to The Reason's "We're So Beyond This" and Vivek Shraya's "Your Name".
In 2007, Motion City Soundtrack covered "You Wouldn't Like Me" live at the State Theater in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at Juanita's Cantina in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Varsity Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In 2007, Sara recorded a cover of R.E.M.'s "Sweetness Follows", from the album Automatic for the People, on the Stereogum album Drive XV: A Tribute to Automatic for the People, with previous Tegan and Sara collaborators Ted Gowans and Kaki King providing the music.
Tegan and Sara have made many television appearances, including Vicki Gabereau's Canadian talk show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Brad Tv, Sonic Temple, Jonovision, Late Night with Conan O'Brien (on more than one occasion), Jimmy Kimmel Live (March 23, 2005) and The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (November 11, 2004). They also played "Monday Monday Monday" on ZeD, and thus the song appeared on the 2003 CD ZeD: Live Off The Floor.
Their songs have appeared on several soundtracks, including those for the films Monster-in-Law and Sweet November, and television shows Grey's Anatomy, The L Word Season 3, and Veronica Mars Season 2. Their songs have also appeared on episodes for several of these shows: "Not Tonight", "Take Me Anywhere", "Fix You Up", "You Wouldn't Like Me", "I Won't Be Left", "Downtown", and "Where Does the Good Go?" have appeared on Grey's Anatomy, while "I Know I Know I Know" and "So Jealous" were on Veronica Mars. Their music also appeared on the show One Tree Hill, with songs including "Want to Be Bad", "Time Running", "Walking with a Ghost" and "Don't Confess".
Tegan and Sara also had a guest appearance as themselves on the The L Word, playing the song "Love Type Thing". The episode was entitled "Last Dance" and aired on March 19, 2006.
Their song "Walking with a Ghost" has received considerable TV airplay, including a 2006 NBC commercial for the TV series Medium and montage footage on the UK football entertainment show Soccer AM in May 2007.
Tegan and Sara have been profiled in a number of magazines and had their albums included on several notable "best of" lists. In the fall of 2003, they graced the cover of ROCKRGRL magazine issue #49, which focused on a tribute to duos. In late 2004, Rolling Stone magazine named their album So Jealous on their list of the best 50 albums of the year. Tegan and Sara were also nominated for a 2006 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year alongside Hot Hot Heat, Metric, The New Pornographers and Broken Social Scene. Spinner.com placed them at #7 on their list of Women Who Rock Right Now.
DC Shoes also released a three song sampler of So Jealous as a promotional offer during 2005. DC Shoes will also be selling Tegan and Sara DC Remix shoes in the Spring of 2007. |
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