Celeigh Cardinal is a
Canadian folk singer-songwriter from
Alberta.
["Celeigh Cardinal rakes in 7 nominations for Edmonton Music Awards"]
CBC News Edmonton, April 19, 2018. She is most noted for her 2019 album ''Stories from a Downtown Apartment'', which won the
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...
for
Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the
Juno Awards of 2020. On June 25, 2020, the album also earned Cardinal two
Western Canadian Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year and Indigenous Artist of the Year.
Life and career
Celeigh has been singing on stages since she was four years old. She started performing professionally at 19. “I grew up singing in church,” she says, “I always knew I wanted to be a singer.”
Based in
Edmonton, she released an EP in 2011 before following up with her full-length debut album ''Everything and Nothing at All'' in 2017. The album received a nomination for Best Pop Album at the
Indigenous Music Awards
The Indigenous Music Awards, formerly called the Aboriginal Peoples' Choice Music Awards, is an annual Canadian music award, given out to Indigenous people who are in the music industry.
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in 2018, and seven nominations at that year's Edmonton Music Awards.
[ She won two Edmonton Music Awards, for Female Artist and Indigenous Recording. She received a second Indigenous Music Award nomination in 2019, in the category Best Radio Single for her song "There Ain't No Way".
Celeigh Cardinal is currently recording from Maskwacis just south of Edmonton, as a host on the CKUA Radio network for the show "Full Circle", which celebrates Indigenous music from around the globe.]
Discography
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References
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Canadian women singer-songwriters
Canadian folk singer-songwriters
Métis musicians
Musicians from Edmonton
Living people
Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year winners
21st-century Canadian women singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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