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Chrissy Steele
12+ albums
hard rockfemale vocalistheavy metalfemale vocalistsmelodic hard rock
about
Chrissy Steele is the stage name of Christina Southern, a Canadian vocalist currently living on Vancouver Island. She is most noted for garnering a Juno Award nomination for Most Promising Female Vocalist and Hard Rock Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1992 Steele's early years were spent singing in more of the classical and folk vein. She participated in several choirs and operas in her hometown of Comox and later in Victoria (both on Vancouver Island). She joined her first band Room Service in 1984 where she performed in various rock clubs and on TV in the CBC competition Rock Wars, which was televised nationally. In 1985 she joined the hard rock band Reform School. The band gave her a foundation to hone her skills as a front person playing clubs in B.C and Alberta with several bands including Blu, and the first incarnation of the Chrissy Steele Band with several members including Burk Ehmig, Rick Smook, Matteo Caratozzolo, Lance Abermak and Brian McConkey, amongst others. In 1989, Brian MacLeod, after hearing about her talents through the grapevine, invited her to join his band Headpins, which had been looking for a new singer since Darby Mills left the band in 1986. However, with the rest of the original Headpins having moved on to other projects, MacLeod instead decided to record a new album with Steele. Sadly, during production of the album and a warm-up tour, MacLeod became ill, and after the release of the album he succumbed to cancer on April 25, 1992. Durin
