Marta Jaciubek

Biography

Marta Jaciubek-McKeever is a composer and actress, known for The L Word (2004), Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006) and Lucid (2021).

Born and classically trained in Poland, Marta Jaciubek-McKeever has been playing piano since the age of four. Marta’s first foray into the North American music scene was in 1999 as a member of indie-pop band Girl Nobody. She later achieved international success in the conceptual post-pop project Fan Death accompanied by fellow singer & songwriter Dandi Wind.

Marta performs solo, as well as in the Salt Spring Island-based folk band, E.S.L. E.S.L.’s song “Secretariat” was written for Jaciubek-McKeever’s husband. Marta has scored a Deanna Milligan film called Cascadia. In her few remaining hours, she writes children’s books and songs under the name Martunia.

She is a mother of two and became an advocate for Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome), when her daughter was born with an extra chromosome.