Education
She attended Queen"s University before pursuing her musical career on a full-time basis.
She attended Queen"s University before pursuing her musical career on a full-time basis.
Originally associated with the folk-popular genre, on her most recent albums she has performed vocal jazz. From February to March 2007 she toured eastern Canada with Dan Hill as part of Stuart McLean"s Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio show The Vinyl Cafe. She returned to the Vinyl Cafe Tour in 2009 performing across Canada with Matt Anderson.
In 2008, Barber released Chances, a jazz album with full orchestral arrangements which was partially co-written with her producer Les Cooper, while also collaborating on several songs with Canadian music legend Ron Sexsmith.
This album led to a new level in touring reaching audiences across the globe while earning two Juno Award nominations including New Artist of the Year. The title track to this album is featured on the Netflix series "Orange is the New Black", at the end of season 1, episode 1.
She followed up with the album Mischievous Moon, released through Outside Music in 2011. In the same year, Jill and Matthew Barber collaborated on a cover of The Hardship Post"s "Your Sunshine", which appeared on the charity compilation album Have Not Been the Same - Volume
1: Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die.
Barber has performed predominantly in English, although she has also recorded and performed French translations of two of her songs, "All My Dreams" ("Tous mes rêves") and "Tell Maine" ("Dis-moi"). Her 2013 album Chansons, a selection of cover versions of classic songs from Quebec and France, was her first album of material recorded and performed entirely in French. Her 2011 album debuted at Number.31 on the Canadian Albums Chart.
2005 East Coast Music 2007 East Coast Music 2008 Juno.