Meryn Cadell

Meryn Cadell is a Canadian singer, writer and performance artist. He had a significant public career presenting as a woman before coming out as transgendered in 2004. He currently teaches the writing of song lyrics and libretto in the Creative Writing Program at University of British Columbia.

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Canadian - Performance art - Transgendered - 2004 - University of British Columbia

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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 he released an independent cassette titled Mare-In Ka-Dell in 1988.

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Ontario College of Art and Design - Toronto, Ontario - Queen Street West - 1988

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He 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.

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Intrepid Records - Jim Creeggan - Barenaked Ladies - Bob Wiseman - Blue Rodeo - Rheostatics - 1991 - Top 40 - 1992

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In 1993, Cadell released his 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, he took a hiatus from music and to do human rights work with PEN Canada. He also wrote an independent film, which was never produced due to provincial government cutbacks to arts funding.

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Sire Records - Ben Mink - Tyler Stewart - Anne Bourne - John Alcorn - PEN Canada

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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.

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1997 - Handsome Boy Records - Mary Margaret O'Hara - Chris Wardman - Jason Sniderman - Blue Peter - Paul Brennan - Odds - Martin Tielli

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Following that album, Cadell retired from the music business, and is now a professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

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On October 2, 2004, Cadell came out as a transsexual man, i.e. female-to-male, on broadcaster Bill Richardson's CBC Radio One show Bunny Watson, and announced that he will retain his birth name of Meryn Cadell.

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October 2 - 2004 - Transsexual man - Bill Richardson - CBC Radio One - Bunny Watson

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