Biography
Carly Rae Jepsen is a Canadian singer-songwriter born on November 21, 1985, in Mission, British Columbia. She first reached a national audience as a third-place finisher on the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2007, an experience that led to her early independent releases before global fame arrived a few years later.
Jepsen became a worldwide phenomenon in 2011 and 2012 with "Call Me Maybe," a single so ubiquitous it turned her into one of the defining pop artists of the era almost overnight. Rather than chase that single's exact formula, she used the momentum to build a career defined by meticulous, hook-driven songwriting, most notably on 2015's Emotion, an album that underperformed commercially on release but has since been widely reassessed as one of the era's most acclaimed pop records, prized by critics and fellow musicians for its density of hooks and its widescreen, 1980s-indebted production.
She followed that critical high-water mark with 2019's Dedicated and its companion set Dedicated Side B (2020), then repeated the paired-release approach with The Loneliest Time (2022) and The Loveliest Time (2023), cementing a pattern of treating her albums as ongoing, expandable bodies of work rather than single, closed statements.
Jepsen married producer and musician Cole M.G.N. (Cole Marsden Greif-Neill) in October 2025 in New York[1]. The couple announced they were expecting their first child that November, and Jepsen gave birth to a daughter on March 17, 2026[1]. Cole M.G.N. is credited among the collaborators on her eighth studio album, Day and Night (2026), a 24-track double album divided into a live-instrumentation "Day" half and a synth-driven "Night" half, recorded across 2023 to 2025[2].
Jepsen was still visibly pregnant while promoting the album's lead single, "On Wires," in June 2026, and has spoken publicly about adjusting her creative and touring plans around early motherhood, including her intention to bring her family on the road with her rather than treat touring and parenting as separate chapters of her life[3]. She has also discussed the renewed viral attention her older catalog, especially Emotion-era songs, has received on platforms like TikTok, crediting that resurgence with introducing her music to a new generation of listeners ahead of the Day and Night era[3].
References
- Carly Rae Jepsen Welcomes First Baby With Husband Cole M.G.N. — Marriage date, pregnancy announcement, and birth of first child.
- Day and Night (Carly Rae Jepsen album) - Wikipedia — Album collaborators including Cole M.G.N., recording timeline.
- Carly Rae Jepsen talks going viral on TikTok, the chances of playing The Mighty Hoopla and new double album 'Day And Night' — Jepsen on touring with her family and TikTok-driven catalog resurgence.