Lorraine Segato

Lorraine Segato

Lorraine Segato (born Hamilton, Ontario)cite web| title = Biography: Lorraine Segato| url=http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bios2/sega1.html| accessdate = 2007-01-24] 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 1970s. [Ross, Becki. "The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation", University of Toronto Press, 1995, ISBN 0802074790, p281]

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