High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sass Jordan was born in Birmingham, England to a French professor and an actress/ballet dancer. Sass' first band was called Sweet Thunder. She made her name "swingin' a mean bass" and singing lead with late '70s Montreal New Wave quartet The Pinups. She embarked on a solo career in the mid-'80s, biding her time initially as she honed her writing skills by contributing material to recording projects by a number of high profile Quebec artists and by handling backing vocals for a variety of acts, most notably The Box. Between forays to New York to scope out the scene there, she became one of the first veejays in Canada as host and interviewer on a Montreal video show, the precursor to MusiquePlus. Her first album, Tell Somebody, was released in 1988 and brought with it a Juno Award in Canada, and her first platinum CD.