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Jean Smith
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| Birth name | Jean Isabel Smith |
| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, painter, novelist, lecturer, filmmaker |
| Associated acts | Mecca Normal |
Jean Isabel Smith (born 1959) is a Canadian writer, painter and the lead singer of the Vancouver band Mecca Normal.
Career
Music
Smith co-founded Mecca Normal with bandmate David Lester in 1981, while the two were working together at a Vancouver newspaper. Mecca Normal is considered a forerunner of the 1990s politically charged riot grrrl movement.
Painting
Smith has continued the self-portrait series in watercolour, video and photography, including photos from her online dating profiles in her short film Attraction is Ephemeral — the title of a song on Mecca Normal's 2006 album The Observer.
She began a series of paintings in 2016 to the present that she sells each day via Facebook posts to raise money to create an artist residency in Vancouver.
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