The sisters’ music found a fan in another singer-songwriter from Calgary, Jann Arden. I’ve been kicked out of the church or I’m having difficulty at school because people know I’m gay or I’m in the military and I can’t tell anyone.” “We started to receive so many letters and emails and I mean, just spontaneous, really authentic conversations,” Sara said. Those raw, vulnerable songs along with being open and honest about their sexuality early in their music career resonated with fans, especially LGBTQ ones. “But we wrote these aggressively honest, vulnerable, raw songs, and then I would play it for Sara first.”
“I never sat down and talked about being gay, or feeling shame, or homophobia,” Tegan explained. In high school, music became a breakthrough in Tegan and Sara’s relationship, giving them a way to communicate instead of fighting. Tegan and Sara performing in the summer of their Grade 11 year of high school (Courtesy: Simon & Schuster Canada) It was probably just heightened because there was this mirror,” Tegan said. “I don’t know that anything we went through as adolescents is any different than what you or anyone as adolescents went through. “I think there is something so bizarre and painful about having what is happening internally happen externally in front of you on another person,” Sara said. To date, they have sold over a million albums, have four gold records, won three Juno awards, been nominated for a Grammy and sung at the Oscars.īut the Canadian pop stars didn’t only sing on their latest North American tour they also read stories from their new book, “High School.” Stories about how keeping the fact that they were gay from each other caused them to lash out in their teens. I remember beating each other up,” Sara added.ĭespite the animosity they had towards each other growing up in Calgary, Alta., they embarked on a music career together in 1998 at the age of 18. “It was the opposite of that,” Tegan told W5’s Avery Haines. These are just some of the misconceptions about identical twins that Tegan and Sara Quin want to change.
The album will be released on September 27.When one feels pain, the other does. “The Hey, I’m Just Like You Tour will remind you of all that is uniquely challenging about being a teenager it will also remind you of that short and singular span of years when the future seems wondrously, enticingly possible.” Their Vancouver show will be held at the Vogue Theatre on Saturday, October 5, 2019, with tickets going on sale Friday, July 26, starting at $40. “This is the origin story of Tegan and Sara,” the release says. The show is expected to feature archival video footage, readings from the memoir, and songs from the new album - mixed in with fan-favourite classics. In High School, Tegan and Sara chronicle their time spent growing up in Calgary, Alberta during the 1990s, and the difficulties they faced in finding their identities, sexualities, and futures, according to a Live Nation release.Īlong those same lines, Hey I’m Just Like You is a brand new album built off of cassette tapes from the same era upon which Tegan and Sara recorded dozens of songs they wrote between the ages of 15 and 17. Dressup among new inductees into Canada's Walk of Fame Canadian couple offering $1.1 million house for just $25 and a letter.Man who can't afford trip to Hawaii hilariously 'creates' one anyway (VIDEO).The musical twins are making their way back to Vancouver for a show this fall as part of their Hey, I’m Just Like You tour, which is in support of their new album of the same name, as well as their memoir, High School. This won’t be like any Tegan and Sara concert you’ve ever seen before.
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