Kathleen Edwards

Kathleen Margaret Edwards was born on July 11th 1978 in Ottawa, Ontario. Her father Leonard Edwards was a diplomate, which led to that Kathleen grew up in such countries as South Korea and Switzerland. At the age of five, she started taking classical violin lessons that continued for the next twelve years. This came in handy when she recorded Failer; Kathleen played and arranged all the string parts on the album. In 1997 her family moved back to Canada, and Kathleen's music taste changed. Before this time she was mainly interested in mainstream pop music, but now she started to listen to her brother's record collection. Her brother's music taste included artists Bob Dylan and Neil Young. During her last two years of high school she started to play more guitar than studying. "I played in (a school) band, but I never played in a band that wasn't part of my musical upbringing, until I started playing guitar at summer-camp. I started playing more and more and wouldn't study for exams, and just play down in my room. It started to take priority over doing well in school." [JAM!]