Montreal music fans were shocked to learn that singer-songwriter Sass Jordan has died at the age of 65.<\/p>\n
About a month ago, venues were announcing that dates in the artist\u2019s current tour were being cancelled due to a health issue. But at around 8 p.m. Saturday night, Oct. 3, a post appeared on Jordan\u2019s Facebook page saying \u201csurrounded by her loving family, Sass Jordan peacefully crossed over to the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah \u201cSass\u201d Jordan was born in Birmingham, England. Her father, a French literature professor, took on a post at Concordia University and moved the family to Montreal when Jordan was three years old.<\/p>\n
The Juno Award-winner was playing music in public from the age of 16. Before launching her successful solo career, Jordan sang with such local acts as B\u00fcndock and The Box.<\/p>\n
Her debut album, Tell Somebody, came out in 1988, featuring the song “So Hard” and the title track, “Tell Somebody”. She made her way to Los Angeles two years later. Her second album, Racine, came out in 1992, with the hits “Make You a Believer” and “Goin\u2019 Back Again”, a love letter to her hometown. Her third album, Rats, followed in 1994. She released seven more records over the next decade.<\/p>\n
Jordan\u00a0was a judge on Canadian Idol from 2003 to 2008. She had also famously toured with the late Taylor Hawkins, the Foo Fighters drummer who died in 2022. \u201cSass taught me how to be in a rock and roll band,\u201d Hawkins had once said of Jordan, \u201cand gave me my first rock and roll cheque.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl would add that \u201cif it weren\u2019t for Sass Jordan, Taylor Hawkins wouldn\u2019t be in the Foo Fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan is survived by her husband, musician Derek Sharp, and a daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal music fans were shocked to learn that singer-songwriter Sass Jordan has died at the age of 65.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,27131,26809,8681,2338,317095,37671],"class_list":["post-921025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dave-grohl","tag-foo-fighters","tag-grunge","tag-montreal","tag-sass-jordan","tag-taylor-hawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}