Caroline Azar

Caroline Azar is a U.S born and Canadian librettist, director and playwright of both Sephardic (Lebanese, Italian & Spanish) and Ashkenaz (Russian) extraction. She was the lead singer, keyboardist and co-lyricist/composer of the band Fifth Column.

The experimental all-women punk band Fifth Column began in the mid 1980s in Toronto, Ontario.

The band self-released two albums, To Sir With Hate and All-Time Queen Of The World. They also released several cassettes, and their recordings appeared in several compilations. They recorded three singles, the best known being "All Women Are Bitches, Repeat!", released on the independent record label K Records. Despite the controversy surrounding the song, it was reviewed by Everett True and named 'Single of the Week' in the UK music magazine Melody Maker. The song was also included on the bands' last full-length recording, 36-C. The band's last release was the song "Imbecile", which appeared on the Fields and Streams compilation in 2002 on the Kill Rock Stars label.

Azar and Fifth Column raised close to $50,000 for women's shelters and varied abortion clinics throughout North America over a 17-year span. Azar organized two International Women's Day Events in the late 1990s at The McGill Women's Club in Toronto in support of the Native Women's Shelter and 'Andayyan', which featured the work of Aboriginal, Metis and non-native women artists.

Azar has also recorded with several other bands including Kickstand from New York City, Jolly Tambourine Man, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Greek Buck, and The Hidden Cameras from Toronto.

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