Ian Tyson
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Songs from the society of the mystic animals
- The Long Trail
- British artists' books, 1970-1983
- [ Ian Tyson, 1980, Kevin Power]
- Design and marketing issues for a new E-commerce business
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countryfolkCanadiancowboyAlt-country
Ian Tyson CM AOE (born Ian Dawson Tyson in Victoria, British Columbia, on 25 September 1933; died 29 December 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the folk duo Ian & Sylvia and wrote several notable songs including "Four Strong Winds" and "Someday Soon". Tyson and his then-wife Sylvia Fricker constituted one of the most popular folk duos of the 1960s, Ian & Sylvia. In 1969, they formed and fronted the pioneering country-rock group Great Speckled B
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Victoria
- Place of death
- Longview
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Stony Plain Records
- Image
- Ian Tyson (4396806840).jpg
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- Commons category
- Ian Tyson
- date of birth
- 1933-09-25
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- name in native language
- Ian Tyson
- date of death
- 2022-12-29
- end of work period
- 2022-00-00
- birth name
- Ian Dawson Tyson
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