Who is this singer and where the hell has she been? My jaw dropped open watching her.
Goosebumps.
Someone throw me some links, please 
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She did some albums in the mid-nineties and was supposed to be another canadian songstress to follow in Alanis Morrissette’s footsteps. When that didn’t work out, she continued to write songs for other artists behind the scenes. I think she wrote something like half of Avril Lavigne’s most recent album.
I have liked her since 2000, Detroit gets Canadian radio and they were playing the hell out of “Before You” and I got hooked. Whole cd’s great, really. I think she sounds sweet and light and honest. Big thumbs up.
Her name is creating flashbacks for me. I remember hearing it regularly but the song I was attributing to her turned out to be someone else’s. I looked up her discography but didn’t recognize any of the titles. Can anyone describe the hit song that I might be thinking of, circa 2001? I don’t think it’s "Leaving on a Jet Plane " since I hate that one. I may well be confused, but I think I liked whatever the song was, hence why her name has stuck in my mind.
WOOKINPANUB you may be thinking of “Before You”. This is the chorus:
"And now I think I’ll get through
The end of the world
And now I think I’ll get through
Life as a girl
Now I think I’ll get through
Anything
Now I think I’ll get through
Ever since I met you on a cloudy Monday
I can’t believe how much I love the rain"
She has done very well in Canada, but over the last few years got married and had a couple of children. During that time she did song writing, some of them with her husband Raine Maida who is the lead singer of Our Lady Peace.
Thanks so much for going to the trouble, ** Past ** but that’s not it 
I realize it’s a ridiculous request for someone to guess what the heck I’m thinking of. I originally had her confused with Leah Andreone’s “It’s Alright”. I’m assuming that whatever her song was, it coincided timewise with that song.
Her website is www.her name.com (no spaces)
Here’s a few popular songs from an album a few years ago, could either of these be the one that you are thinking of?
Time:
Now I’ve looked in the mirror and the worlds getting clearer
I’ll take what you give me. please know that I’m learning
So wait for me this time
In this life:
You’re in the basement watching the tv,
I’m on the second floor watching the ceiling.
We sleep underneath the same big sky at night.
I dream the same dream we can fly
You can run from me
You can hide from me
But I am right beside you
These two were reasonably popular in Canada a few years ago (album released 2002, I have it actually, it’s a pretty good album).
As mentioned above she did a cover of ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’. I heard it in a pub in Bristol and wanted to know who it was as I thought the song was irredeemable till I HEARD HER VERSION. i found it on the jukebox on the ARMAGEDDON soundtrack, never having heard of her before. She can certainly chant. She has lots of other good stuff. Check her out.
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There are a myriad of videos if you put her name into YouTube.
Never heard of her before, but she sounds like Natalie Merchant and looks like Kelly Monaco.
Thanks, ** drm** but still no cigar I think I’m resigned to the fact that hers is a name I heard among others at a certain point in time.
Other popular (well, in Canuckistan, anyway) Chantal Kreviazuk songs:
Wayne, which is a favourite of mine;
“Wayne, wait for me
Take me up in your hot air balloon and feed me cotton candy”
It’s very orchestral, with sweeping string riffs.
Also, there is Surrounded, which is about a high school friend who committed suicide:
“I was there
Come on, tell me I wasn’t worth stickin’ it out for
Well, I was there
And I know I was worth it, 'cause if I wasn’t worth it
That makes me worse off than you are”
The video is very simple, but rather moving.
Yeah her first album rocked my world way back during I guess, the Dawsons Creek era which might be where I first heard her. Her second album was great too but I lost touch with her after that during a poor period when I couldn’t afford to buy new music. How’s her new stuff?
She was pretty big in Canada in the late nineties, as was her husband Raine Maida (as the lead singer of Our Lady Peace). Now they stick mostly to writing and producing for other artists. Avril Lavigne, Cheyenne Kimball and Hilary Duff have all received a bit of help from the both of them.
It’s great. Her song “Wonderful”, from her newest album, Ghost Stories, is getting lots of airplay and it’s a definite earworm.
Her song “Julia”, from 2002’s What If It All Means Something, is a totally adorable ditty about Julia Roberts.