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Taylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow (August 27, 1990 – October 27, 2009), known by her stage name Taylor Mitchell, was a Canadian country folk singer and songwriter from Toronto. Her debut and only album, For Your Consideration, received encouraging reviews and airplay.
Ferron Foisy (born Deborah Foisy on 1 June 1952; known professionally as Ferron) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet. [1] In addition to gaining fame as one of Canada's most respected songwriters, [2] [3] Ferron, who is openly lesbian, became one of the earliest and most influential lyrical songwriters of the women's music circuit, [4] [5] and an important influence on later musicians ...
Rita MacNeil CM ONS (May 28, 1944 – April 16, 2013) was a Canadian singer and songwriter from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she had hits on the country and adult contemporary charts throughout her career.
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk music laureate who crossed over to major pop fame in the U.S. during the ‘70s, died of natural causes on Monday evening at Sunnybrook ...
The legendary folk singer-songwriter, whose hits including “Early Morning Rain,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," told a tale of Canadian identity that was exported worldwide, died ...
Laura Smith (March 18, 1952 – March 7, 2020) was a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 1995 single "Shade of Your Love", one of the year's biggest hits on adult contemporary radio stations in Canada, [3] and for her adaptation of the Scottish folk song "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" which she entitled "My Bonny".
Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird" (1970). [4] She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang , Céline Dion , and ...
Lightfoot had a string of folk-rock hits in the '70s, including 'Sundown,' 'If You Could Read My Mind' and 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' Gordon Lightfoot, mournful Canadian singer ...