Sylvia Tyson

Sylvia Tyson

 

Sylvia Tyson (b 19 September 1940) is a Canadian musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster. From 1959 to 1974, she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson, a collaboration that produced 13 album releases. She wrote her first and best-known song You Were on My Mind in 1962. The duo's 1964 hit, Four Strong Winds, was a standard for folk and country singers for a decade. She set out on a solo career in the late 1970s, recording two albums for Capitol Records and two albums on her own label. Since 1993, she has been a member of the all-female folk group Quartette. Sylvia Tyson was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1994.

 

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