On January 18 2010, the Canadian singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle died at her home only weeks shy of her 64th birthday.
McGarrigle - born in Montreal and raised in the village of Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts in the Laurentians - recorded a series of critically praised albums with her sister Anna between 1976 and 2005. Their compositions have been recorded by such artists as Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Billy Bragg and Anne Sofie von Otter with Elvis Costello.
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