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Jann Arden - 100% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

Jann Arden Richards, 27 March 1962, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This Canadian singer-songwriter worked as a salmon-gutter, a golf ball cleaner and a singing waitress before finding success as a musician. Arden recorded a solo single (‘Never Love A Sailor’) under her real name when she was only 17 and started working with rock ‘n’ roll groups in bars and clu Read more

Tara Maclean - 84% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

25 October 1973, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Singer-songwriter MacLean was raised in locations as diverse as the Caribbean, Toronto and British Columbia. From a musical family, she appeared on television at the age of 11 singing with her stepfather, guitarist Marty Reno. She later worked in the UK, before returning to Canada where she was discovered singing Read more

Amanda Marshall - 68% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

29 August 1972, Toronto, Canada. Singer Amanda Marshall first entered the music business with an amateur performance at a Toronto nightclub which was overheard by singer/guitarist Jeff Healey. She was just 18 years old, but under Healey’s influence she began backtracking into her musical heritage and discovering the blues. However, this was mixed with an appreciation of Read more

Emm Gryner - 59% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

Nina Gordon - 54% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon, 14 November 1967, USA. Gordon made her initial mark on the music scene in the mid-90s as guitarist and joint singer-songwriter with post-grunge favourites Veruca Salt, and was responsible for writing the band’s two biggest US hits, ‘Seether’ and ‘Volcano Girls’. She left Veruca Salt in 1998 shortly after the release of the Read more

Holly McNarland - 49% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

October 1974, Manitoba, Canada. Guitarist and singer-songwriter McNarland has received numerous comparisons to Alanis Morissette since she burst on to the scene during the late 90s, owing to the facts that both come from Canada and specialize in emotional and confessional songs. Raised in Winnipeg, McNarland started singing at the tender age of three, and took up the guitar Read more

Sophie B. Hawkins - 42% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

Sophie Ballantine Hawkins, 1 November 1966, Manhattan, New York, USA. Born of liberal, wealthy East Manhattan parents (her father a lawyer, her mother British writer Joan Winthrop), Hawkins’ family background also boasted an aunt, Linda, who had been masseuse to Paul Simon. By the time she moved with Aunt Linda to the arty environs of West Greenwich, she had already beg Read more

Paula Cole - 39% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

5 April 1968, Rockport, Massachusetts, USA. Singer-songwriter Cole launched her career with the spirited, persuasive Harbinger set for Imago Records in July 1994. Among several notable tracks was the high-impact single, ‘I Am So Ordinary’, which forcefully dealt with Cole’s low self-esteem problems. However, its potential impact was scuppered when Imago lost i Read more

Abra Moore - 32% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

8 June 1969, San Diego, California, USA. Folk-pop artist Moore has established herself as a striking new voice in the alternative singer-songwriter field, alongside acclaimed artists such as Liz Phair and Ani DiFranco. Raised in Hawaii by a musical family, Moore lost her jazz-loving mother at the age of four, a loss she would later articulate to striking effect on the title Read more

Shawn Colvin - 32% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

Shanna Colvin, 10 January 1956, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA. A singer-songwriter in the tradition of her teen idol Joni Mitchell, Colvin was of considerable age before she recorded her first songs. Backed by fellow guitarist and songwriting partner John Leventhal (later a collaborator with Marc Cohn), her debut pulled together arresting material with an understated approac Read more

Sarah McLachlan - 28% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

28 January 1968, Bedford, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan has featured on the Canadian folk scene since she was a 20-year-old, and through a series of well-received albums and tours has blossomed into a well-rounded folk rock artist and a confident live performer. Her third album, 1993’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, was produced by Daniel La Read more

Lucie Silvas - 25% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

Lucy Silverman, 4 September 1980, Surrey, England. One of the new breed of UK singer-songwriters to emerge in the early years of the twenty-first century, Silvas made a minor impact with the release of her 2004 debut Breathe In. The daughter of a Scottish mother and New Zealander father, she grew up in New Zealand and started playing piano at the age of five, graduating to s Read more

Heather Nova - 24% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

Heather Frith, 6 July 1968, Bermuda. This singer-songwriter’s early childhood was spent on her family’s yacht, sailing around the Caribbean (her brother is the reggae singer, Mishka). Frith’s early interest in music intensified when, aged 19, she moved to Providence to study painting and film at the Rhode Island School of Design. She did not join in with the l Read more

Jonatha Brooke - 22% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

23 January 1964, Illinois, USA. Initially recording with the folk pop duo Story, singer-songwriter Brooke has earned several comparisons with Rickie Lee Jones for her work. Trained as a ballet dancer, she first played rock music as a 13-year-old bass player with a local rock band called Science Function, which included her biology teacher. However, her first experience of Jo Read more

Dar Williams - 21% match to Chantal Kreviazuk

Dorothy Snowden Williams, 19 April 1967, Mount Kisco, New York, USA. Singer-songwriter Dar Williams first gained exposure by playing tiny church halls and cramped coffee houses on the small-town Massachusetts folk circuit. Her debut album, The Honesty Room, was released by Grapevine Records in 1995 and attracted immediate critical acclaim. Billboard magazine featured William Read more