Maria (Jane Siberry album)

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Professional reviews
Maria

Studio album by Jane Siberry
Released	1995
Recorded	September 1994 – April 1995 at Reaction Studios, Toronto
Genre	Adult Contemporary, Jazz
Length	66:56
Label	Reprise Records
Producer(s)	Jane Siberry
Rolling Stone [1] David Gérard [2] All Music Guide [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=JANE
Jane Siberry chronology
When I Was a Boy (1993)	Maria (1995)	Teenager (album) (1996)

Maria is a 1995 critically acclaimed album by Canadian singer and songwriter Jane Siberry.

Rolling Stone wrote about Maria: "[H]ot damn, the girl's back in the driver's seat with Maria...This is vintage Siberry: scissor-kicking around the soul's messiest spots in search of anything hinting toward redemption... That's exactly what this album's about: the pull of life. Not specifically the good or the bad or the ugly but just the pull and the subsequent release" [3]

The album ends with "Oh My My," a 20 minute-plus ode that gathers the themes from the entire album. "[I]n this heap of Siberjazz you realize that everything that has arisen on Maria has indeed converged and that you've actually been led on an unforgettable walk in a garden facing fall with a tour guide who's sure-footed in her wobbly pace. Awesome" [4]

Maria was her last major label album. In 1996, Siberry started her own independent record label, Sheeba Records, and has released all of her subsequent recordings on that imprint.