Janet Mead
Janet Mead (born 1938, Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian Roman Catholic nun and is best known for recording a rock version of "The Lord's Prayer". The surprise hit reached Number 3 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) in 1974 and Number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same year. The single earned her a Grammy Award nomination and Golden Gospel Award in 2004. It sold over one and a half million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on April 8, 1974.
Mead became the second woman to have a top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart while serving as a nun. Sister Luc-Gabrielle (Jeanine Deckers) AKA Sœur Sourire and The Singing Nun, had a Number 1 pop hit in 1963 with "Dominique".
Mead also taught music at Saint Aloysius College where the music video for our father was filmed. Mead still does visit Saint Aloysius to teach the junior school students basic music.
Life and career
Mead formed a rock band simply called The Rock Band when she was 17 to provide music for the weekly Mass at her local church. She studied piano at the Adelaide Conservatorium before joining the Sisters of Mercy order and became a music teacher at two local Catholic schools. She began to explore the "Rock Mass" concept in the early 1970s, desiring to make the Mass more interesting and accessible for her students. This led to a successful series of "Rock Masses" which she conducted at Adelaide Cathedral.
Podcasts:
Sister Janet Mead
ALBUMS
- With You I Am released: 1974
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by Tori Amos
Sister Janet
by: Tori AmosMaster Shamen
I have come
With my dolly from the shadow side
With a demon and an Englishman
I'm my mother
I'm my son
Nobody else is slipping the blade in easy
Nobody else is slipping the blade in the marmalade
All the angels
All the wizards black and white
Are lighting candles in our hands
Can you feel them
Touching hands before our eyes
And I can even see sweet Marianne
Sister Janet
You have come
From the woman clothed with the sun
Your veil is quietly becoming none
Call the Wanderer
He has gone
And all those up there are making it look so easy
With your perfect wings
A wing can cover all sorts of things
All the angels
All the wizards black and white
Are lighting candles in our hands
Can you feel them
Touching hands before our eyes
And I can even see sweet Marianne