Kristy Thirsk

Kristy Thirsk is a platinum selling Canadian singer-songwriter. Best known for her ethereal vocal work with Delerium, Thirsk has participated with other projects, which includes her solo career.

Rose Chronicles

She was the singer and a co-writer for the band Rose Chronicles, which was signed to Nettwerk in the 1990s. Rose Chronicles released two full-length albums: "Shiver" (1994), which won a Juno Award for Best Alternative Album, and "Happily Ever After" (1996). The band split up in 1997.

Collaborations

In the years that followed, Thirsk was featured as a guest vocalist and co-writer on albums by Delerium and Balligomingo. She sang the vocals in Front Line Assembly's cover of Madonna's "Justify My Love" and Mystery Machine's cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass."

According to Kristy in an Auralgasms interview, Garrett Schwarz allegedly borrowed samples from her Delerium song, "Incantation" and then released his own song on the Balligomingo album, "Beneath The Surface". This, she explained, was the reason she discontinued any further collaboration with Garrett [http://www.auralgasms.com/default.aspx?Page=/Features/Thirsk/Thirsk.aspx] .

Thirsk was also involved in the initial stages of Adrian White's side project Silent Alarm. The Sleepthief album "The Dawnseeker", released June 2006, features Thirsk's vocals in the songs "Sublunar (Sweet Angel)". Sleepthief's follow-up "The Chauffeur - The Remix - EP" features Kristy on "Send Me an Angel", a remake of the Scorpions 1990 "power ballad". She also sings "Overkill" for the & Mike Hiratzka album "Skyline Lounge" (July 2007).

Thirsk and fellow Delerium singer Shelley Harland were the two lead vocalists for Delerium's first US tour in 2003. She toured again as the singer with Delerium's European Tour in May 2008, playing in London, Antwerp, Budapest, Prague, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Athens, Thessaloniki, and Moscow.

olo career

Thirsk's first released solo track was "Bounds of Love," which was on the soundtrack of the movie "Kissed" in 1997. This song received a Genie Award nomination for Best Movie Theme.

She worked on her own material throughout this period and released her first full-length solo album, "Souvenir", in 2003. "Souvenir" was produced by Eric Rosse (Tori Amos, Lisa Marie Presley).

According to her MySpace blog, Thirsk is almost finished recording a new album with Mike Hiratzka (due in Spring to Summer 2008) featuring Ashwin Sood ("Sarah McLachlan's drummer and Delerium's studio/sometimes live drummer").

In May 2008, Kristy released a limited edition 4-song EP called "Under Cover EP" with the songs "Hourglass", "Conspiracy", "What If I", and a remake of Prince's "When Doves Cry" that features exclusive mixes of the four songs that will also be on her upcoming solo album. The EP will be sold on the tour only and online.

Her song "Out There" was released on the "Sirènes" compilation album in May 2008. Kristy [http://www.kristythirsk.com/journal_archive.php?PHPSESSID=5a58379e909ea1b397e826f10f16aa8d designated] the song as the theme song for Red Cross Canada in January 2005, in response to the 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake/Asian Tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

Her sister Natasha is also a musician, currently fronting the indie rock band Catlow.

Discography

Rose Chronicles

Kristy Thirsk

Guest Appearances

External links

*Myspace|kristythirsk
* [http://www.kristythirsk.com/ Official website]
* [http://lyricwiki.org/Kristy_Thirsk Kristy Thirsk lyrics at Lyricwiki.org]
* [http://arc2tv.com/podcast/Arc2TV_Stripped_2004_Volume_4_FashionRocks.m4v Kristy performs "Run Away" and "Truth Fantasy"] (QuickTime link) at a September 30, 2004 charity concert/fashion/performance art show.
* [http://arc2tv.com/podcast/Arc2TV_Stripped_2004_Volume_5_and_6.m4v Kristy performs "I Know You Are Out There"] (QuickTime link) as the singer of [http://www.strippedseries.com/2005/flash/volfive.swf "Silent Alarm"] at a 2005 live acoustic charity performance.