Early Life
McLean is the youngest child of Norwegian immigrants. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Her formative years were spent in Belleville where at age 9 she picked up her first guitar, and age 12 formed an acoustic quartet. Her first public performance was in a local church basement. She sites her main musical influences from this time as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and the musicals of Rogers and Hammerstein. She attended Centennial Secondary School where she was influenced by Canadian singer songwriters Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bruce Cockburn.
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