#160: Mimi On The Beach by Jane Siberry
City: Ottawa, ON
Radio Station: CFRA
Peak Month: September 1985
Peak Position in Ottawa ~ #9
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart
YouTube: “Mimi On The Beach”
Lyrics: “Mimi On The Beach”
Jane Siberry was born in 1955 in Toronto as Jane Stewart. She would take her subsequent surname, “Siberry”, from the family name of her maternal aunt and uncle. Many years later, she would explain this choice by stating “this woman and her husband were the first couple I met where I could feel the love between them and I held that in front of me as a reference point.” Siberry learned piano from the age of four, predominantly teaching herself and developing her own concepts of notation and structure. At school she learned conventional music theory (as well as French horn) and taught herself to play guitar by working through Leonard Cohen songs. In the mid-70s she was performing in folk clubs in Guelph (ON) as part of the folk group Java Jive.