Lorraine Segato

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Lorraine Segato (born Hamilton, Ontario)[1] is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter, who was best known as the lead vocalist for 1980s new wave group Parachute Club.

After that group broke up, Segato released a solo album, Phoenix, in 1990. Her second solo album, Luminous City, followed in 1996. She has also worked in film production, writing and directing a documentary on Toronto, Ontario's late 1970s/early 1980s Queen Street West scene, Queen Street West, The Rebel Zone, and as a lecturer and social justice activist.

Segato also appeared on the science fiction show Lexx, singing a song entitled "Time Prophets" on the episode "Brigadoom".

She was vocalist in the Toronto women's rock band Mama Quilla II in the late 1970's.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Biography: Lorraine Segato. Retrieved on 2007-01-24.
  2. ^ Ross, Becki. The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation, University of Toronto Press, 1995, ISBN:0802074790, p281
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