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Meryn Cadell is a Canadian writer and performance artist.
A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Cadell was active as a performance artist in Toronto, Ontario's Queen Street West scene when she released an independent cassette titled Mare-In Ka-Dell in 1988.
She soon signed to Intrepid Records, and recorded with Jim Creeggan of Barenaked Ladies, Bob Wiseman of Blue Rodeo and members of Rheostatics. Those sessions were released in 1991 as the album Angel Food For Thought, whose first single "The Sweater" became a surprise Top 40 hit in Canada in 1992.
In 1993, Cadell released her follow-up album Bombazine on Sire Records. This album featured guest appearances by Rheostatics, Ben Mink, Tyler Stewart, Anne Bourne and John Alcorn. Following that album, she took a hiatus from music and to do human rights work with PEN Canada. She also wrote an independent film, which was never produced due to provincial government cutbacks to arts funding.
In 1997, Cadell returned to music with the album 6 Blocks on the independent label Handsome Boy Records. Special guests on this outing included Anne Bourne, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Chris Wardman and Jason Sniderman (Blue Peter), Paul Brennan (Odds) and Martin Tielli.
Following that album, Cadell retired from the music business, and is now a professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
On October 2, 2004, Cadell came out as a transman (a female-to-male transsexual) on broadcaster Bill Richardson's CBC Radio One show Bunny Watson, announcing that he will retain his birth name of Meryn Cadell.
Discography
- Mare-In Ka-Dell (1988)
- Angel Food for Thought (1991)
- Bombazine (1993)
- 6 Blocks (1997)
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