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Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
Nelly Furtado
Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. Son of journalist and author Scott Young, Young embarked on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s. He then moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. His solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse, includes critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), After the Gold Rush (1970), Harvest (1972), On the Beach (1974), and Rust Never Sleeps (1979). Young was also a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with whom he recorded the chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.
Joni Mitchell
Canadian musician
Gordon Lightfoot
Canadian singer-songwriter (1938–2023)
Daniel Lanois
Canadian record producer and musician
Stan Rogers
Canadian folk singer
Raffi
Raffi Cavoukian (, born July 8, 1948), known professionally by the mononym Raffi, is an Armenian-Canadian singer-lyricist and author born in Egypt best known for his children's music. In 1992, The Washington Post called him "the most popular children's singer in the English-speaking world". He developed his career as a "global troubadour" to become a music producer, author, entrepreneur, and founder of the Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring, an initiative focused on promoting children's rights and well-being. He has also been involved in advocacy for environmental and social causes, often ad
Bruce Cockburn
Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (born 1945)
Zal Yanovsky
Canadian singer (1944-2002)
Colter Wall
Canadian singer-songwriter
Tom Jackson
Canadian singer and actor
Sarah Harmer
musician, activist
Jill Barber
Canadian singer-songwriter
Bonnie Dobson
Canadian singer
Willie Dunn
Canadian politician, writer, filmmaker, and musician (1942–2013)
Ferron
Ferron Foisy (born Deborah Foisy on 1 June 1952; known professionally as Ferron) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet. In addition to gaining fame as one of Canada's most respected songwriters, Ferron, who is openly lesbian, became one of the earliest and most influential lyrical songwriters of the women's music circuit, and an important influence on later musicians such as Ani DiFranco, Mary Gauthier and the Indigo Girls. From the mid-eighties on, Ferron's songwriting talents have been recognized and appreciated by music critics and broader audiences, with comparisons being made to the wr
Sylvia Tyson
Canadian musician
Lisa LeBlanc
Canadian singer-songwriter
Bernard Adamus
Canadian singer-songwriter
Ruth Moody
Canadian musician
Lynn Miles
musician
Peter Katz
Canadian musician and songwriter
Tara Beier
Canadian singer-songwriter
Sierra Noble
Canadian singer and songwriter
Tony McManus
British musician
Fred Penner
Canadian children's musician
Daisy DeBolt
Canadian pianist and songwriter (1945–2011)
Faith Nolan
Canadian musician
Jay Malinowski
Canadian musician
Stephen Fearing
Canadian musician
Del Barber
Canadian musician
Joel Gibb
Canadian musician