Sass Jordan, the Canadian rock singer-songwriter behind the albums Racine and Rats, died on 2 October at 65. A social media statement said she died "surrounded by her loving family." No cause of death was given.
Jordan spent more than three decades in Canadian music before becoming a familiar face to a much larger TV audience as a judge on six seasons of Canadian Idol.
From Montreal clubs to hit records
Jordan built her reputation as a live performer before Racine and Rats made her a fixture on Canadian rock radio. Both records are the ones most often cited in coverage of her career, and they anchored a run that kept her touring and recording well past the peak of the major-label era she came up in.
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She was a rock singer first. The TV work came later, and it changed the size of her audience more than any single album did.
Six seasons on 'Canadian Idol'
As a judge on Canadian Idol, Jordan sat in the chair for six seasons and became one of the show's recognizable voices. That stretch put her in front of viewers who may never have bought a Sass Jordan record — a second act in a career that had already been long by the time the cameras started rolling.
The show's run is part of why her death is being felt beyond the music press. Idol-era viewers knew her as the blunt one on the panel; the people who knew her from the clubs and the albums had a different frame of reference entirely.
A statement, and not much else
The family's announcement came via social media and confirmed the essentials: she died Wednesday, at 65, with family present. It did not address how she died, and no further details have followed.
That's the whole of the public record for now. Canadian music figures and former contestants have begun reacting, but as of Thursday there was no funeral information, no statement from the labels behind her records, and no word on how — or whether — her catalog will be handled going forward.
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