"As a kid I was always mistaken for a boy. I didn't get long hair until my early 20s. That's when I discovered hair was important." Cowboy Junkies In 1985, her brother Michael recruited Margo as the lead vocalist for Cowboy Junkies even though she had never sung publicly before. Initially Margo would not sing in front of the other band members, she would only sing in front of Michael. Eventually, Michael convinced Margo to sing in front of the other band members and they liked her performance. 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' I didn't want to hurt his music, because his music is so important to him." It took a long time for her to get comfortable singing in front of an audience. In fact, many of the early shows had Margo singing with her back to the audience. Timmins has stated that it took her ten years to get comfortable singing in front of an audience, and she suffers from stage fright. Present She lives in Toronto with her husband Graham Henderson and their son Ed. However, she likes to spend most of her time at their 100-year-old farmhouse in Grey County, Ontario. She married Graham Henderson in 1988. 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. Shortly thereafter he was not only working to get the Junkies their recording contract with BMG in the U.S., but he and Margo started dating. Graham Henderson has been a partner at the law firm of McCarthy Tétrault 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). While Timmins celebrated her 20th year of marriage she admitted to having a crush on Bruce Springsteen. She said, "When I got married, I told my husband that if Bruce ever wanted me, that I would be his. And my husband said, OK". She loves animals and she and Graham have had two Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs, Achilles and Drusilla, as well as Spartacus the cat. In 2002, Margo and Graham suffered a significant loss in