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Pages in category "Canadian women pop singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 280 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Canadian women singers" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Begonia (musician)
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Canadian singer-songwriters. It includes Canadian singer-songwriters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
In the 1980s, she sang with her own band, Luba, which released the album Chain Reaction in 1980. She went on to have a solo career using the mononym Luba. Two of her albums have been certified Platinum by the Canadian music industry (for sales in excess of 100,000 units). She has had nine top-40 hits on the Canadian pop charts.
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 ...
Michelle Wright was born on July 1, 1961, in Chatham, Ontario.Wright grew up in the small nearby town of Merlin where her parents were both local music performers. By 1980, when Wright was in college studying counseling for the mentally disadvantaged, she joined a local band with whom she performed until 1983.
Phil Collins, who topped the Canadian chart with four songs in 1990, earned the best-performing single of the year with "I Wish It Would Rain Down", a six-week chart-topper. RPM was a Canadian magazine that published the best-performing singles of Canada from 1964 to 2000. 1990 saw 21 songs reach the number-one spot in Canada.
Early in life, lang was listening to and was influenced by female artists, such as Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Kate Bush, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt. [47] [48] Lang pursued country music in the 1980s, but viewed it as a brief obsession. [47] "I fell in love with the emotion of country music, and the kitschness of it.