Margo Timmins (born January 27, 1961)[1] is the lead vocalist of Canadian alternative country and folk rock band Cowboy Junkies.

[2] Timmins' father, who worked in aviation sales and marketing, was a jazz lover[3] who passed this on to his daughter.

[citation needed] After graduating from high school, Timmins spent her evenings along with her brother Michael exploring the punk music scene in Toronto that was happening on Queen Street West.

[9] In 1985, her brother Michael recruited Margo as the lead vocalist for Cowboy Junkies even though she had never sung publicly before.

Eventually, Michael convinced Margo to sing in front of the other band members and they liked her performance.

[10] Margo Timmins has said about that time, "So when he asked me I was freaked out, but I said 'Okay, so long as if I don't do a good job, you fire me.'

[12] Timmins has stated that it took her ten years to get comfortable singing in front of an audience, and she suffers from stage fright.

She met her husband, an entertainment lawyer, in the mid-1980s after he heard the band's demo tapes and went to see them at Toronto's bar, restaurant and performance space The Rivoli.

[5] Graham Henderson has been a partner at the law firm of McCarthy Tétrault[citation needed] and served as vice-president of business affairs and e-commerce at Universal Music Canada until 2000 when he was named president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).

Though he was in hospital almost immediately, the disease ravaged him and his great, loving heart gave out in the early hours of August 25, 2002.

[20] In 2009, she released a solo album of covers, Margo's Corner: Ty Tyrfu Sessions, Volume 1.