[2] Originally from Montreal, Quebec, she moved with her family at age 12 to Winnipeg, Manitoba,[3] where she met her husband and musical collaborator Rick Johnson in high school.
[4] Crawford and Johnson retired the band in 1988 to concentrate on raising their family,[4] although Crawford continued to do jingle and voice-over work in television and radio, the couple performed some shows with the cover band The Retro Rockets,[6] and they recorded and toured behind several albums of children's music as Terri & Rick;[7] this activity in turn led Johnson into politics, beginning on the local school board and culminating in his election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2009.
[8] In 1989 songwriters Fred Mollin and Stan Meissner hired her to sing on the song "Broken Dream" which was used in the Vancouver based horror film Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.
The song was not released for 32 years, having only appeared in the film as one of the tracks actress Saffron Henderson's character "J.J." jams along to on her electric guitar, the other being an instrumental.
[9] However, in 2021, the song was included on La-La-Land Records’ release of the film’s soundtrack which revealed a previously unheard chorus and lead guitar parts.