20th-century Canadian women singers

The list 20th-century Canadian women singers includes Yvonne De Carlo, Vanity, Shania Twain, Céline Dion and Anne Murray. The list consists of 327 members and 2 sublists.

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Yvonne De Carlo

Actress

Overview: Margaret Yvonne Middleton (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007), known professionally as Yvonne De Carlo, was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer. She became an internationally famous ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1922

Date of death: 8 January 2007

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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American women television personalities 403T

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Vanity

Canadian singer, model and actress (1959–2016)

Overview: Denise Katherine Matthews (January 4, 1959 – February 15, 2016), known professionally as Vanity, was a Canadian singer, songwriter, dancer, model, and actress who turned away from her music and acting ...

Date of birth: 4 January 1959

Date of death: 15 February 2016

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Female models from Ontario 72T

20th-century Black Canadian women singers 31T

Kidney transplant recipients 94T
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Shania Twain

Canadian singer (born 1965)

Overview: Eilleen "Shania" Twain OC ( eye-LEEN, ; born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 100 million records, making her the best-selling female artist ...

Date of birth: 28 August 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Country Musician

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Frederic Thiébaud (Married)

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21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

Vegetarians 377T

21st-century women singers 8,493T
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Céline Dion

Canadian singer (born 1968)

Overview: Céline Marie Claudette Dion (say-LEEN dee-ON; born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Referred to as the "Queen of Power Ballads", she is noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals. Her music ...

Date of birth: 30 March 1968

Age: 57

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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21st-century women pianists 665T

20th-century women pianists 501T

Canadian anti-racism activists 20T
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Alanis Morissette

Canadian-American singer-songwriter

Overview: Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice, Morissette began her career in Canada in ...

Date of birth: 1 June 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Mario Treadway (Married)

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21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters 693T

20th-century Canadian singer-songwriters 279T

21st-century American singer-songwriters 2,676T
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Anne Murray

Canadian singer

Overview: Morna Anne Murray CC ONS (born June 20, 1945) is a Canadian singer. Her albums consisting primarily of pop, country, and adult contemporary music have sold over 55 million copies worldwide during her over ...

Date of birth: 20 June 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Canadian women memoirists 90T

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Lara Fabian

Belgian singer

Overview: Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (born January 9, 1970), better known as Lara Fabian, is a Canadian-Belgian singer, songwriter, musician, actress and producer. She has sold over 20 million records worldwide ...

Date of birth: 9 January 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: Belgian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Gabriel Di Giorgio (Married)

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21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

Warner Music France artists 13T

21st-century women singers 8,493T
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Tamia

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1975)

Overview: Tamia Marilyn Washington Hill (born May 9, 1975), known mononymously as Tamia, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, and actress. Born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Tamia performed in various ...

Date of birth: 9 May 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Vocalist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Grant Hill (Married)

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20th-century Black Canadian women singers 31T

21st-century Black Canadian women singers 60T

Canadian women hip hop musicians 4T
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Terri Clark

Canadian country music artist

Overview: Terri Lynn Sauson, known professionally as Terri Clark, born August 5, 1968, is a Canadian country music singer who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995 ...

Date of birth: 5 August 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Country Musician

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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21st-century Canadian women singers 658T

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k.d. lang

Canadian musician (born 1961)

Overview: Kathryn Dawn Lang OC AOE (born November 2, 1961), known by her stylized stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.

Date of birth: 2 November 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Canadian lesbian musicians 26T

21st-century LGBT people 3,417T

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Sarah McLachlan

Canadian musician and songwriter

Overview: Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which ...

Date of birth: 28 January 1968

Age: 57

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Geoff Courtnall (Long-Term)

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21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

Women keyboardists 29T

Women harpists 31T
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Nelly Furtado

Canadian singer (born 1978)

Overview: Nelly Kim Furtado ComIH (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 45 million records, including 35 million in album sales worldwide, making her one of the most suc ...

Date of birth: 2 December 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters 590T

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Joni Mitchell

Canadian-American singer-songwriter (born 1943)

Overview: Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge ...

Date of birth: 7 November 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Singers from Saskatchewan 65T

Singers from Alberta 178T

21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters 704T
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Leslie Feist

Canadian and American musician

Overview: Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976), known mononymously as Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken ...

Date of birth: 13 February 1976

Age: 49

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters 591T

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Jann Arden

Canadian singer-songwriter, actress (b. 1962)

Overview: Jann Arden (born Jann Arden Anne Richards; March 27, 1962) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, author and actress. She is best known for her signature ballads, "Could I Be Your Girl" and "Insensitive", which ...

Date of birth: 27 March 1962

Age: 63

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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LGBT people from Alberta 27T

Canadian bisexual women 8T

21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters 693T
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Bif Naked

Canadian musician

Overview: Beth Torbert is a Canadian singer best known by her stage name Bif Naked. Between 1996 and 2016, she was among the top 150 selling Canadian artists in Canada.

Date of birth: 15 June 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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Canadian women bass guitarists 18T

21st-century Canadian memoirists 179T

Bisexual women writers 202T
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Alannah Myles

Canadian, Singer

Overview: Alannah Myles (née Byles; born December 25, 1958) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who has won both a Grammy and a Juno Award for the song "Black Velvet". The song was a top-ten hit in Canada; it was also ...

Date of birth: 25 December 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters 702T

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Singers from Toronto 424T
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Cree Summer

Actress and musician

Overview: Cree Summer Francks (born July 7, 1969) is an American-Canadian actress, voice actress and singer.

Date of birth: 7 July 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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21st-century American women singers 2,630T

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Black Canadian singers 107T
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Deanna Durbin

Canadian singer and actress (1921–2013)

Overview: Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013), known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born actress and singer, who later settled in France. She appeared in musical films in the 1930s ...

Date of birth: 4 December 1921

Date of death: 30 April 2013

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)

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Illeists 31T

20th-century women singers 3,624T

Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T
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Alexis Smith

Actress

Overview: Margaret Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born stage, film, and television actress and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career ...

Date of birth: 8 June 1921

Date of death: 9 June 1993

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Pin-up models 13T

Deaths from brain cancer in California 142T

Deaths from brain cancer in the United States 549T