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Ian Tyson married Twylla Dvorkin in 1986. Their daughter Adelita Rose was born c. 1987. [18] [25] Tyson's second marriage ended in divorce in early 2008, several years after he and Dvorkin had separated. [26] [27] A book by John Einarson, Four Strong Winds: Ian & Sylvia, was published in 2012.
Ian & Sylvia were a Canadian folk and country music duo which consisted of Ian and Sylvia Tyson. They began performing together in 1959 (full-time in 1961), [ 1 ] married in 1964, and divorced and stopped performing together in 1975.
Tyson struggled with personal and legal issues starting in the late '80s. As he went through a divorce, Tyson grew increasingly out of shape and started to lose his superstar image.
Ian and Sylvia Tyson (1968) From 1959 to 1974, she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson. [7] [8] The two met after a friend of Ian's heard her sing at a party and let Ian know about her. Ian had been performing in Toronto clubs as a solo artist, but after he and Fricker met, they decided to work together as a duo. [9]
Folk singer Ian Tyson wrote "The Man They Called Will James" for the score and it became a minor hit for Tyson. James was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1991, [1] and into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1992, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. [16]
The pair ended their dispute in 2007 when their lawyers filed court papers saying they had settled their differences and agreed to divorce without fault. Gest died in 2016 at age 62.
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In 1970, the group became the house band for the television show Nashville North, produced by the CTV network and filmed at the CFTO-TV studios in Toronto, which, after one season, became the Ian Tyson Show. [2] [3] The show ran until 1975. The group backed Ian & Sylvia until the duo parted ways in 1975.