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 rela- tionships. 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

WORK EXPERIENCE 

2003-2009 International Headliner 2008 Toured with Death Cab for Cutie 2008 Coachella, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits 2007 Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit 2006 Toured with Cake 2005 Toured with The Killers 2005 Coachella, Lollapalooza 2004 Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit, with Paul McCartney 2003 Toured with Ben Folds, Hot Hot Heat 2002 Toured with Ryan Adams 2000 Toured with Neil Young and The Pretenders North America, Europe, Australia USA USA San Francisco, CA, USA USA USA USA San Francisco, CA, USA USA, Europe USA USA

APPEARANCES / AWARDS / HONORS 

2000-2008 Late Night Performances NYC, LA The Late Show with David Letterman, 2000, 2008; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 2008; Jimmy Kimmel Live, 2005; Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 2005, 2007 2008, 2009 Tiësto International Tiësto first remixed Back In Your Head in 2008 which connected him to Tegan and Sara for a future collaboration: they co-wrote "I Feel It In My Bones" which will be released on Tiësto's album Kaleidoscope in October 2009 2005-2007 Juno Award Nominations Canada Alternative Album of the Year (So Jealous 2005, The Con 2007); Music DVD of the Year (It's Not Fun Don't Do It! 2006) 2005 The White Stripes USA The White Stripes covered and released "Walking With A Ghost" by Tegan and Sara, on their Walking With A Ghost EP 2004 Rolling Stone Top 50 Records of 2004 Magazine Land So Jealous named one of the best 50 albums of the year 2004-2009 Guest Appearances and Covers USA / Canada In April 2008, Tegan wrote and recorded a song entitled "His Love" at the request of author Augusten Burroughs, as a contribution to the audio version of his book A Wolf at the Table; Tegan is featured on the track "borne on the fm waves" off of Against Me's 2007 album, New Wave; Tegan is featured on Broken Songs, the second track of Jim Ward's 2009 EP In The Valley, On The Shores; Cancer Bats covered So Jealous on their Tour EP released in June 2009; Alkaline Trio covered "Wake up Exhausted"; Tegan and Sara have co-written songs and been featured vocalists on the albums of: Against Me! Tiësto, Dragonette, The Reason

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