HISTORY:
Tegan Quin and Sara Quin were born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on September 19, 1980. They are sisters. They began playing music together in high school. They were signed by Elliot Roberts and Neil Young to Vapor Records in 2000. Tegan and Sara are now signed to Vapor/Sire/Warner Bros.

EDUCATION
Sainthood, 2009
Produced by Chris Walla and Howard Redekopp. Mixed by Dave Sardy. Recorded at Sound City (Los Angeles) and Two Sticks (Seattle). Tegan and Sara’s sixth studio album – Sainthood – addresses secular themes of devotion, delusion, and exemplary behavior in the pursuit of love and relationships. Inspired by emotional longing and the quiet actions we hope may be noticed by the objects of our affection, Sainthood is about obsession with romantic ideals. In the service of relationships we practice being perfect. We practice our sainthood in the hope that we will be rewarded with adoration. As we are driven to become anything for someone else, we sometimes become martyrs for our cause. Love, like faith, can never be held in an individual’s hands. But the story of a great love affair – especially one that is unrequited or has ended too soon – can be woven like scripture or a bedtime story. And so the themes of Sainthood are tied together by this simple title, borrowed, with great respect, from the lyrics of the Leonard Cohen song “Came So Far For Beauty:” I practiced all my sainthood / I gave to one and all / But the rumors of my virtue / They moved her not at all.

ON, IN, AT, 2009
A three book set of photography and writing, chronicling a U.S. tour, Australian tour, and a collaborative songwriting experiment in New Orleans

The Con, 2007
All songs by Tegan and Sara. Produced by Chris Walla, Tegan Quin and Sara Quin

It’s Not Fun, Don’t Do It!, DVD, 2005
Tour videos, music videos, performance video

So Jealous, 2004
All songs by Tegan and Sara. Produced by Tegan and Sara with John Collins, David Carswell and Howard Redekopp

If It Was You, 2002
All Songs by Tegan and Sara. Produced by John Collins and David Carswell

This Business of Art, 2000
All songs by Tegan and Sara. Produced by Hawksley Workman

Under Feet Like Ours, 1999
All songs by Tegan and Sara. Produced by Tegan and Sara and Jared Kuemper

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Fundraised for Music BC, Burt Harris Memorial Scholarship in Vancouver, BC
Fundraised for Project 10, a GLBTIQ youth community centre in Montreal, Quebec
Headlined SPIN.com’s September 2008 Liner Notes benefit for Housing Works, a New York non-profit
Fundraised for Midwinter Harvest Food Program

INTERESTS
Book collecting, hair, ships, vampires, hot dogs, talking and relating to elderly people, self-soothing, rearranging, coffee, yoga

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