Margo Timmins

Margo Timmins (born January 27, 1961) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist of the alternative country and folk rock band Cowboy Junkies. Her brothers Michael Timmins and Peter Timmins are the band's lead guitarist and drummer.

Margo Timmins was born and spent most of her childhood in Montreal, one of six children of Barbara and John Timmins. Timmins' mother was a critical influence on her life and attitudes.

Timmins' father, who worked in aviation sales and marketing, was a jazz lover who passed this on to his daughter.

Timmins went through her brother Michael's record collection. Influences were: Highway 61 Revisited (1965); Blonde on Blonde (1966); Nashville Skyline (1969), by Bob Dylan; Nebraska (1982) by Bruce Springsteen; Harvest (1972) by Neil Young; Townes Van Zandt's Flyin' Shoes (1978).

In 1977, the Timmins family moved from Montreal to Toronto. They lived in the west of Etobicoke. Timmins went to Richview Collegiate Institute.

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.