Christa Borden
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Christa Borden (born 1981) is a Canadian pop singer, known as the winner of "Popstars: The One" in April of 2003.
As a child, Christa spent much time performing in public. Starting out singing folk songs and musical theatre and in her teens, operatic repertoire, she won many awards and scholarships from the St. John's Kiwanis Music Festival for both Piano and Voice. She was the runner-up in the Junior Rose Bowl in 1997, and then she landed her first lead role later that year as Anne Shirley in the Peter McDonald production of Anne of Green Gables.
In 1998, she won the Miss Teen Newfoundland and Labrador pageant.
In 1998 she attended Memorial University's Music School studying Voice. During this time she seriously studied the more classical forms of singing from early music to opera to cabaret. She graduated in 2003 with a degree in Vocal Performance.
Since April of 2003, she has continued performing and has been collaborating with other songwriters and musicians. She appeared on the cover of numerous local and national magazines, toured the province with fellow singer/songwriters Jackie Sullivan and Jacinda Beals, and performed in "Our Divas do Broadway" at Mile One Stadium in 2004.
Her debut CD entitled "The Extremist" was released in January of the year 2006. Also in 2006, she guest-starred on the CBC Television series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching.
[edit] Discography
The Extremist
1. Fall Asleep, Words & Music by Christa Borden
2. Cut me Loose, Words & Music by Christa Borden
3. Everything I Want, Words & Music by Justin Merdsoy & Christa Borden
4. Changes, Words & Music by Black Sabbath
5. Know it all too well, Words & Music by Christa Borden
6. Take to the sky, Words & Music by Tori Amos
7. Shake your Head, Words & Music by Christa Borden
8. Fallen, Words & Music by Christa Borden
9. Turn the Tide, Words & Music by Christa Borden
10. The Mermaid, Words & Music by Jonny Harris
