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Sylvia Tyson
CM
Tyson in 2010
Born
Sylvia Fricker

( 1940-09-19 ) 19 September 1940 (age 83)
Chatham , Ontario , Canada
Known for You Were on My Mind
Spouse
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( m.  1964⁠–⁠1975) ​
Children 1
Musical career
Origin Toronto , Ontario, Canada
Genres Folk , country rock , country
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, broadcaster , author
Instrument(s) Vocals, autoharp , guitar, piano
Years active 1959?present
Labels Vanguard , Columbia , Capitol , Stony Plain , Salt, Outside
Website quartette .com /sylvia .htm

Sylvia Tyson , CM ( nee Fricker ; born 19 September 1940) is a Canadian musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster . [1] She is best known as part of the folk duo Ian & Sylvia , with Ian Tyson . Since 1993, she has been a member of the all-female folk group Quartette . [2] [3]

Early life [ edit ]

Tyson was born Sylvia Fricker in Chatham , Ontario, [4] the second of four children. [5] Her father was an appliance salesman for the T. Eaton Company , and her mother was a church organist and choir leader. [6] At a young age Fricker decided to become a singer. Although her parents tried to discourage her from pursuing a career as an entertainer, she left Chatham in 1959 to perform in Toronto . [5]

Ian and Sylvia [ edit ]

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] Their full-time collaboration began in 1961 and continued for a decade. [10] From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, she and Ian Tyson also fronted the country rock band Great Speckled Bird .

Sylvia Tyson wrote her first and best-known song " You Were on My Mind " in 1962. It was recorded by Ian & Sylvia in 1964. [11] The song has been covered extensively, [12] but first became a hit single in the mid-1960s for the San Francisco -based folk-rock band We Five , and also for the British pop singer Crispian St. Peters .

Fricker married Ian Tyson on 26 June 1964. [13] During their years together, they recorded 13 albums.

The Tysons were divorced in 1975. [14] During their marriage, they had one child, Clayton Dawson Tyson. [15]

Later career [ edit ]

After the Tysons separated and stopped performing together in 1975, Sylvia started a solo career. [4] She released two albums on Capitol Records , Woman's World in 1975 and Cool Wind from the North in 1976. [16] In 1978, she established an independent record label, Salt Records. [17] With the label she released the albums, Satin on Stone in 1978 and Sugar for Sugar in 1979. [16] [18]

Sylvia Tyson contributed offstage to the Canadian music scene as a board member of FACTOR and the Juno Awards . With Tom Russell , she was an editor of the 1995 anthology And Then I Wrote: The Songwriter Speaks ( ISBN   9781551520230 ). [17] In 2011, she wrote her first novel, Joyner's Dream . [11]

Sylvia joined Ian to sing their signature song " Four Strong Winds " at the 50th anniversary of the Mariposa Folk Festival on 11 July 2010 in Orillia , Ontario. [19]

In 2012, Tyson and singer-songwriter Cindy Church wrote a campaign song for the Alberta Party , a centrist political party in Alberta .

On November 3, 2023 at the age of 83, Tyson released what she states is her last album titled 'At the End of the Day'.

Awards and recognition [ edit ]

Sylvia Tyson was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1994. [20]

She was nominated seven times for a Juno Award , the first being in 1987 as Country Female Vocalist of the Year. The Canadian Music Hall of Fame inducted Ian & Sylvia as a duo in 1992. In 2003, Sylvia Tyson was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame . [1]

In July 2019, it was announced that Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson would be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame individually, not as a duo. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said that "the duo's 1964's hit, Four Strong Winds , has been deemed one of the most influential songs in Canadian history". The CBC report also referenced the song You Were on My Mind , written by Sylvia Tyson, as well as her four albums (1975?1980). [21]

Discography [ edit ]

Albums [ edit ]

Year Album CAN Label
1975 Woman's World 54 Capitol
1976 Cool Wind from the North ?
1978 Satin on Stone ? Salt
1979 Sugar for Sugar, Salt for Salt ?
1986 The Big Spotlight ? Stony Plain Records
1989 You Were on My Mind ?
1992 Gypsy Cadillac ? Silver City
2000 River Road and Other Stories ? Salt/Outside
2001 The Very Best of Sylvia Tyson ? Varese Sarabande
2011 Joyners Dream: The Kingsfold Suite ? Outside Music
2023 At the End of the Day ? Stony Plain Records

Singles [ edit ]

Year Single Chart Positions Album
CAN Country CAN AC
1972 "Give It to the World" ? 44 single only
1975 "Sleep on My Shoulder" 35 24 Woman's World
1976 "Good Old Song" 42 ? Cool Wind from the North
1979 "Love Is a Fire" 32 ? Satin on Stone
1980 "Same Old Thing" ? 36 Sugar for Sugar, Salt for Salt
1985 "Up in Smoke" 50 ? single only
1986 "Denim Blue Eyes" 15 ? The Big Spotlight
1987 "Too Short a Ride" 20 ?
1989 " You Were on My Mind " 35 ? You Were on My Mind
1990 "Slow Moving Heart" 43 ?
"Rhythm of the Road" 42 ?
"Thrown to the Wolves" (with Tom Russell ) 43 ?
1992 "I Walk These Rails" 18 ? Gypsy Cadillac
1993 "The Sound of One Heart Breaking" 52 ?

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b "CCMA Hall Of Fame ? Sylvia Tyson" . Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame . Retrieved 11 November 2009 .
  2. ^ John Einarson (January 2001). Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock . Rowman & Littlefield . pp. 233?. ISBN   978-0-8154-1065-2 .
  3. ^ Larry LeBlanc (4 February 1995). "Canada: Who's Who" . Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 80?. ISSN   0006-2510 .
  4. ^ a b Larry LeBlanc (9 September 2000). "Tyson album, stage show, draw on her life and long career in music" . Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 60?. ISSN   0006-2510 .
  5. ^ a b Hampson, Sarah (31 July 2004). "The Hampson Interview: Sylvia Tyson". The Globe and Mail . Toronto. p. R3.
  6. ^ Callwood, June (28 October 1974). "The Informal Sylvia Tyson". The Globe and Mail . Toronto. p. 8.
  7. ^ "Tyson" . Quartette. 8 September 2003 . Retrieved 4 April 2012 .
  8. ^ "Ian and Sylvia" . The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved 4 April 2012 .
  9. ^ Braithwaite, Dennis (29 October 1963). "How to Get Rich". The Globe and Mail . Toronto. p. 31.
  10. ^ "Ian & Sylvia ? Canadian Music Hall Of Fame" . Canadianmusichalloffame.ca . Retrieved 12 February 2020 .
  11. ^ a b Barber, John (19 March 2011). "I've Been a Writer All My Life". The Globe and Mail . Toronto. p. R19.
  12. ^ Saxberg, Lynn (16 December 2016). "A Quartette Christmas with Sylvia Tyson and friends" . Ottawa Citizen .
  13. ^ "Bach and Shubert as Ian, Sylvia Wed". The Globe and Mail . Toronto. 27 June 1964. p. 18.
  14. ^ Leblanc, Larry (12 February 2005). "Tyson Takes a New 'Road' " . Billboard . p. 52 . Retrieved 11 November 2009 .
  15. ^ Lederman, Marsha (28 March 2008). "Tyson comes clean" . The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 11 November 2009 .
  16. ^ a b Jason Schneider (15 December 2010). Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music... from Hank Snow to the Band . ECW Press . pp. 1?. ISBN   978-1-55490-552-2 .
  17. ^ a b The Canadian Press (8 September 2003). "Country music to honour Tyson" . London Free Press . Archived from the original on 15 January 2013 . Retrieved 11 November 2009 . {{ cite news }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link )
  18. ^ "Salt Records (2) Label" . Discogs.com . Retrieved 13 February 2019 .
  19. ^ "Four Strong Winds: Ian & Sylvia by John Einarson with Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson" . The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 12 February 2020 .
  20. ^ "Order of Canada: Sylvia Tyson" . Governor General of Canada . 19 October 1994 . Retrieved 11 November 2009 .
  21. ^ "Archived copy" . www.cbc.ca . Archived from the original on 18 July 2019 . Retrieved 13 January 2022 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link )

External links [ edit ]

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