Canadian folk singer-songwriters

The list Canadian folk singer-songwriters includes Neil Young, Nelly Furtado, Joni Mitchell, Carly Rae Jepsen and Leonard Cohen. The list consists of 236 members.

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Carly Rae Jepsen

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1985)

Overview: Carly Rae Jepsen (born November 21, 1985) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Mission, British Columbia, Jepsen performed several lead roles in her high school's musical ...

Date of birth: 21 November 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

Partner: Cole M.G.N. (Engaged)

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Fontana North artists 11T

21st-century Canadian women singers 637T

MTV Europe Music Award winners 370T
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Neil Young

Canadian and American musician (born 1945)

Overview: Neil Percival Young OC OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian–American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and activist, considered by some as one of the most influential and prolific songwriters ...

Date of birth: 12 November 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Canadian male pianists 129T

2019 deaths 6,613T

Canadian male guitarists 377T
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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

20th-century Canadian singer-songwriters 219T

Portuguese multi-instrumentalists 1T
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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
5.

Leonard Cohen

Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)

Overview: Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1934

Date of death: 7 November 2016

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Canadian male guitarists 377T

Canadian male screenwriters 186T

20th-century Canadian screenwriters 136T
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Ian Tyson

Canadian singer-songwriter (1933–2022)

Overview: Ian Dawson Tyson CM AOE (September 25, 1933 – December 29, 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote a significant number of modern folk songs, including “Four Strong Winds" and "Someday Soon" ...

Date of birth: 25 September 1933

Date of death: 29 December 2022

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Country Musician

Gender: Male

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2022 deaths 8,423T

Stony Plain Records artists 37T

Canadian Country Music Association Male Artist of the Year winners 16T
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Loreena McKennitt

Canadian musician

Overview: Loreena Isobel Irene McKennitt, CM OM CD (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle ...

Date of birth: 23 February 1957

Age: 68

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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21st-century women pianists 2T

20th-century women pianists 2T

20th-century Canadian women singers 295T
8.

Gordon Lightfoot

Canadian singer-songwriter (1938–2023)

Overview: Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is c ...

Date of birth: 17 November 1938

Date of death: 1 May 2023

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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2023 deaths 2,402T

Canadian Folk Music Award winners 125T

Canadian male guitarists 409T
9.

Taylor Hickson

Canadian actor (born 1997)

Overview: Taylor Delaney Hickson (born 11 December 1997) is a Canadian actress and singer-songwriter. Raised in Kelowna, British Columbia, Hickson began singing at talent shows at the age of 11. After graduating ...

Date of birth: 11 December 1997

Age: 27

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: David Nadeau (Dating)

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21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

21st-century women singers 8,493T

Musicians from Kelowna 16T
10.

Valdy

Canadian musician (b. 1945)

Overview: Paul Valdemar Horsdal, CM (born 1 September 1945), commonly known as Valdy, is a Canadian folk and country musician whose solo career began in the early 1970s. He is known for "Rock and Roll Song", his ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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Stony Plain Records artists 35T

Lisgar Collegiate Institute 84T

Canadian male singer-songwriters 302T
11.

Sarah Harmer

Canadian musical artist (born 1970)

Overview: Sarah Harmer (born November 12, 1970) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and activist.

Date of birth: 12 November 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

Canadian folk-pop singers 18T

Canadian women environmentalists 41T
12.

Stompin' Tom Connors

Canadian singer

Overview: Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013) was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1936

Date of death: 6 March 2013

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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Canadian yodelers 4T

Deaths from kidney failure in Canada 9T

Singers from Prince Edward Island 25T
13.

Sylvia Tyson

Canadian musician

Overview: Sylvia Tyson, CM (born 19 September 1940) is a musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster. She is best known as part of the folk duo Ian and Sylvia, with Ian Tyson. Since 1993, she has been ...

Date of birth: 19 September 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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20th-century Canadian women singers 270T

21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

Quartette (band) members 3T
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Rita MacNeil

Canadian singer

Overview: Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS (May 28, 1944 – April 16, 2013) was a Canadian singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top ...

Date of birth: 28 May 1944

Date of death: 16 April 2013

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century Canadian women singers 270T

21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

20th-century women singers 3,624T
15.

Daniel Lanois

Canadian record producer, singer-songwriter, musician

Overview: Daniel Roland Lanois CM ( lan-WAH; born September 19, 1951) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.

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Canadian ambient musicians 4T

Musicians from Gatineau 16T

Canadian male guitarists 377T
16.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

American musician

Overview: Buffy Sainte-Marie, CC (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is an Indigenous Canadian-American (Piapot Cree Nation) singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and ...

Date of birth: 20 February 1941

Age: 84

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education alumni 42T

Piapot Cree Nation 8T

20th-century Canadian women singers 295T
17.

Tara MacLean

Canadian musician

Overview: Tara Margaret Charity MacLean (born October 25, 1973) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Her hit songs as a solo artist include "Evidence", "If I Fall", and a cover of the Christmas song "Light of the ...

Date of birth: 25 October 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

Partner: Ted Grand (Married)

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20th-century Canadian women singers 296T

21st-century Canadian women singers 651T

Writers from Charlottetown 15T
18.

Frazey Ford

Canadian alternative country singer

Overview: Frazey Obadiah Ford is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress. She was a founding member of The Be Good Tanyas. Her solo debut Obadiah was released on Nettwerk on July 20, 2010.

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

Nettwerk Music Group artists 67T

21st-century women singers 8,493T
19.

Rose Cousins

Canadian singer

Overview: Rosanne Millicent "Rose" Cousins (born April 21, 1977) is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Prince Edward Island, she is currently based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Date of birth: 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian women singers 647T

Canadian folk-pop singers 20T

Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year winners 7T
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Ruth Moody

Canadian musician

Overview: Ruth Moody is an Australian-born soprano singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys.

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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The Wailin' Jennys members 5T

Canadian women folk guitarists 22T

Canadian female singer-songwriters 182T