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21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters

  • Drake (musician)Drake's 2006 mixtape Room for Improvement sold roughly 6,000 copies and earned him $304.04.
  • Neil YoungIn April 2026, Neil Young announced a new studio album called Second Song, and three of its tracks were songs he had written in 1963. They had remained unreleased ever since. That detail suits a man who has spent his career refusing to…
  • Joni MitchellAfter a 2015 brain aneurysm, Joni Mitchell relearned guitar at living room jam sessions. Brandi Carlile organized them.
  • Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen once predicted, "I feel I have a huge posthumous career in front of me." He said it long before he died, and the forecast turned out to be sound. Cohen was a Canadian poet, novelist, singer and songwriter, and for much of his…
  • Alanis MorissetteAlanis Morissette recorded a demo cassette in August 1989 and sent it to Geffen Records. The tape has never been heard. It was stolen, along with other records, in a burglary of the label's headquarters in October 1989. Whatever it held is…
  • Avril LavigneIn November 2000, Avril Lavigne stood in a Manhattan recording studio and sang for Antonio "L.A." Reid, then the head of Arista Records. The audition ran for just 15 minutes. Lavigne, a Canadian singer and songwriter, was 16 years old. She…
  • The WeekndThe Weeknd is the stage name of Abel Tesfaye, a Canadian singer-songwriter born on the 16th of February 1990. The spelling is deliberate. Tesfaye chose the name because he had left home on a weekend, then dropped the last 'e' to avoid…
  • Shania TwainShania Twain has sold over 100 million records, more than any other woman in country music history. Billboard Boxscore puts the gross from her concert tours at 421.1 million dollars, the highest for any female country touring artist.…
  • Tate McRaeTate McRae is a Canadian singer, songwriter and dancer whose first American number-one single came on someone else's record. In May 2025 she featured on Morgan Wallen's song "What I Want", taken from his album I'm the Problem. It debuted…
  • Bryan AdamsIn 1990, Bryan Adams sat down with two collaborators, Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Michael Kamen, and finished a song in a single 45-minute session. The song was "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," and it went on to reach number one in at…
  • Chris JerichoChris Jericho began his run in the World Wrestling Federation with a ticking clock. For weeks in 1999, a countdown to the new millennium kept appearing on the company's programming. Jericho later said the idea came from a clock he had…

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