Jocelyne Lanois is a Canadian

Canada

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 musician, bassplayer and songwriter from Hull, Quebec

Hull, Quebec

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, who has been a member of the bands Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins are a Canadian new wave band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, they had a number of hits in their native Canada, and the core members of the band also charted in Canada and...

 and Crash Vegas

Crash Vegas

Crash Vegas was a Canadian folk rock band which formed in 1988, and achieved moderate success in the early 1990s.-Biography:The band was formed by Michelle McAdorey and Greg Keelor of Blue Rodeo in 1988. Jocelyne Lanois joined the band as bassist and shortly after Ambrose Pottie as drummer...

. She has also had touring stints as bassplayer with Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco

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 and Chris Whitley

Chris Whitley

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, and played on Sarah McLachlan

Sarah McLachlan

Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

's album Solace. She is the sister of legendary record producer Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...

, and was partner at his experimental Lab Studio with producer, musician Malcolm Burn

Malcolm Burn

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, collaborating on his solo release, Redemption.

Jocelyne went on to develop a career in scoring music for films and documentaries. Between 2006 and 2008 she wrote and recorded songs in collaboration with Martha Johnson, Mark Gane and Leonardo Valvassori, playing bass, guitar, percussion and vocals. The collaboration will be released as a Martha and the Muffins CD titled "Delicate" with an unspecified release date in the spring of 09.