Andrea Warner (1979 – 2026)
October 29th, 2026
Music journalist and author, Andrea Warner died on September 27 after a three-year battle with cancer. “ … [S]he really honestly shows us how ethical, generous, but still entertaining and funny that cultural criticism can be,” said Warner’s editor, Jen Sookfong Lee in The Globe and Mail, adding that Warner “ … fundamentally changed the way we write about music in this country.”
Born on January 25, 1979, Warner grew up in East Vancouver and later attended UVic. After writing for magazines and living in the US, she moved back to Vancouver and was eventually hired by CBC Music in 2012, rising to the position of associate producer and becoming a co-host of the podcast, Pop This!
Warner wrote four books:
We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music (Eternal Cavalier Press, 2015/ECW, 2024),
Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography by Andrea Warner, foreword by Joni Mitchell (Greystone Books, 2018),
Rise Up and Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music (Greystone, 2023),
The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing (ECW Press, 2024). With Susan Aglukark, she co-authored,
Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing (HarperCollins, 2025).
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