17 AUG 2022 · Marc Wallace Jordan was born March 6, 1948 into a musical household in Brooklyn, NY. His dad Charles was a successful Canadian singer who moved back to Canada soon after Marc was born, which makes Marc 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, to name a few. In 1977 Jordan reached a U.S. deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Music_Group.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Jordan#cite_note-1 This period with Warner spawned the Canadian hit songs "Marina del Rey" and "Survival" from the record Mannequin; a second record produced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graydon called Blue Desert was released 1980, and is regarded as a classic of the West Coast Sound of the period. He was named best producer with Steven MacKinnon at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Awards_of_1994 in 1994 for "Waiting for a Miracle" (from Reckless Valentine). In 2014 the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Film_Centre appointed Jordan as the Musical Director of its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaight_Family_Music_Lab.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Jordan#cite_note-HollywoodReporter2014-03-20-2 In the 1980s, Jordan was signed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA for two records. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Film_Institute for Best Film. 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz-oriented CDs, This Is How Men Cry and Make Believe Ballroom. Jordan is also an actor and he made his acting debut in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McGowan_(director)'s 2010 sports musical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score:_A_Hockey_Musical, where he plays Edgar Gordon, a pacifist father who along with his wife (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John) have a 17-year-old son who has a talent for hockey. He is married to fellow singer-songwriter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Children%27s_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UNICEF_Goodwill_Ambassadors for Canada. He is currently finishing up a duets album with Amy whilst also writing for George Benson’s next record and a handful of cuts on Rod Stewart's upcoming record. He’s also in the middle of his next solo record which features the Prague symphony who also played on his last record "Both Sides"...