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Marc Wallace Jordan (born March 6, 1948) is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, session musician, and actor. Covering a wide variety of genres, he has written songs for a number of well-known artists, including Diana Ross, Rod Stewart, Cher, Bette Midler, Chicago, and Josh Groban. He was named best producer with Steven MacKinnon at the Juno Awards in 1994 for "Waiting for a Miracle" from Reckless Valentine. In early 2014, Jordan was named Chair of Slaight Family Music Lab at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre.
With the Canadian division of Sony Music, Jordan released some singles in 1974, which included "It's a Fine Line", "New York Kids", "Original Sin"). They were not very successful themselves, but they impressed American music producer Gary Katz, and in 1977 Jordan reached a U.S. deal with Warner Bros. Records. Marc Jordan, mardjordan.com, accessed March 11, 2010. This period with Warner spawned the Canadian hit songs "Marina del Rey" and "Survival" from the record Mannequin; a second record produced by Jay Graydon called Blue Desert was released in 1979, and is regarded as a classic of the West Coast Sound of the period.
In the 1980s, Jordan was signed to RCA for two records. Paul De Villiers produced the first, Talking Through Pictures, and Kim Bullard the second, called C.O.W.. In 1988, Jordan sang and co-wrote the theme song to the hit Australian movie Boulevard of Broken Dreams which was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Film. In 1989, he and Jay Gruska received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Shadow Dance", a song they wrote for the film Shadow Dancing.
In 1994, Jordan won a Juno Award for "Producer of the Year" (along with co-producer Steven MacKinnon) for "Waiting for a Miracle" from his Reckless Valentine album.
After independently releasing the critically acclaimed recordings Reckless Valentine and Cool Jam Black Earth, he was signed to Blue Note/EMI Canada in 1999, and followed up with two more jazz-oriented Compact disc, This Is How Men Cry and Make Believe Ballroom.
In 2014 the Canadian Film Centre appointed Jordan as the Musical Director of its Slaight Family Music Lab.
During the summer of 2016, Jordan was performing with singers Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church and Ian Thomas in the group Lunch At Allen's, in a number of towns and small cities in Ontario, Canada. He is married to fellow singer-songwriter Amy Sky. They live in Toronto and have a cottage in Muskoka with their two children, Ezra and Zoe. Jordan and Sky are both national UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors for Canada.
Jordan made his acting debut in Michael McGowan's 2010 sports musical , where he plays Edgar Gordon, a pacifist father who along with his wife (Olivia Newton-John) have a 17-year-old son who has a talent for hockey.
Jordan's fifteenth and latest studio album, Waiting for the Sun to Rise, was released on April 21, 2023 through Linus Entertainment. It is Jordan's first album of original material since On a Perfect Day (2013).
In October 2023, Jordan and his long-time collaborator John Capek were announced as new inductees into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Jordan is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.
This is How Men Cry
First released in Canada by Blue Note/EMI on October 25, 1999, This is How Men Cry contains six tracks written by Jordan: "This Is How Men Cry," "Charlie Parker Loves Me" (covered by Rod Stewart on his album Human, released February 6, 2001), "Slow Bombing the World," "I Must Have Left My Heart," "Let's Get Lost," and "London in the Rain". There are an additional three covers: Willie Nelson's '"Crazy," Elvis Costello's "Almost Blue," and Manny Curtis' "Let It Be Me". The lead track, "This is How Men Cry," is a poem about how men communicate, or more often how they don't.LeBlanc, Larry. Marc Jordan Makes Blue Note Debut, Billboard, December 11, 1999.
Personal life
Marc Jordan is married to Amy Sky and they have two children together, a son, Ezra and a daughter, Zoe. Jordan is Jewish. His father was a cantor.
Discography
Studio albums
Albums
1978 Mannequin
83 1979 Blue Desert
74 1983 A Hole in the Wall
– 1987 Talking Through Pictures
– 1990 Cow
73 1993 Reckless Valentine
– 1996 Cool Jam Black Earth
– 1999 This Is How Men Cry
– 2004 Make Believe Ballroom
– 2010 Crucifix in Dreamland
– 2013 On a Perfect Day
– 2019 Both Sides
– 2022 He Sang She Sang
– 2023 Waiting for the Sun to Rise
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Live albums
Compilation albums
Singles
1974 "New York Kids" — — — singles only "Original Sin" — — — "It's a Fine Line" — — 47 1978 "Survival" — 83 — Mannequin "Marina del Rey" 23 — — "One Step Ahead of the Blues" — — — 1979 "I'm a Camera" 30 80 — Blue Desert "Generalities" — — — 1980 "Secrets" — — — Live at El Mocambo "New York City" 13 81 — "Potential and Air" — — — 1981 "You Found Out" 25 — — single only 1987 "I Was Your Fool" — — — Talking Through Pictures "This Independence" 27 — — 1988 "Catch the Moon" — — — 1989 "Shadow Dance" — — — single only "Burning Down the Amazon" — — — C.O.W. (Conserve Our World) 1990 "Edge of the World" — — — 1992 "Her Body Makes Vows" (with Exchange) — — — Exchange (Exchange album) "'Til the Last Teardrop Falls"
(with Exchange and Amy Sky)13 44 — 1994 "Rhythm of My Heart" — — — Reckless Valentine "Waiting for a Miracle" — — — "Back Street Boy" — — — 1996 "Beautiful Disguise" — — — Cool Jam Black Earth 1997 "I Will Be Your Priest" — — — 1999 "Charlie Parker Loves Me" — — — This Is How Men Cry 2002 "Rockets" — — — Living in Marina del Rey and Other Stories 2003 "Everything Love Is" (with Amy Sky) — — — With This Kiss (Amy Sky album) 2008 "Every Time It Snows" — — — single only 2012 "Your Love Was All" — — — Crucifix in Dreamland
Writing credits
A list of artists who have performed songs written by Jordan include the following:
External links
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