Holly McNarland

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, McNarland's background is Métis.^[2] She moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in the early 1990s.^[3]

She released her debut EP Sour Pie independently in 1995,^[1] before it was rereleased nationally by MCA Records in 1996.^[4]

Stuff, her full-length debut album, was released in 1997.^[5] The album's most successful single was "Numb", which reached the Canadian top 10.^[6]

At the 1998 Juno Awards, she won the Best New Solo Artist category,^[7] and was nominated for Best Alternative Album for Stuff and Best Video for "Elmo".^[8]

She collaborated with Matthew Good on the song "Flight Recorder From Viking 7" from the album Loser Anthems.

Following Stuff, McNarland ended up taking an unplanned five-year hiatus from music after marrying videographer Jay Mirus and giving birth to her first child.^[9] She returned in with the album Home Is Where My Feet Are,^[10] released on June 11, 2002. The album was supported by a tour, with Emm Gryner performing as the opening act,^[11] and received several Western Canadian Music Award nominations in 2003 including Outstanding Pop Recording, Outstanding Producer (Malcolm Burn) and Outstanding Songwriter.^[12]

She then provided backing vocals on the track "Wishing You Would Stay" on The Tea Party's 2004 album Seven Circles,^[13] and again collaborated with Good on "Pony Boy", one of the new songs on his 2005 greatest hits package In a Coma. In 2004, she was also one of the performers at that year's National Aboriginal Achievement Awards.^[14]

She followed up in 2007 with the album Chin-Up Buttercup,^[15] and in 2012 with Run Body Run.^[16]

She collaborated with Matt Good once again on his cover of Kate Bush's song Cloudbusting on his 2015 album Chaotic Neutral.^[17]