Dawn Tyler Watson is a Canadian blues and jazz singer.[1] She is most noted for her 2019 album Mad Love, which won the Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020.[2] Born in Manchester, England, Watson emigrated to Canada with her family in childhood.[1] Raised in Southwestern Ontario, she moved to Montreal to study jazz at Concordia University.[1] She first began performing blues after being invited to contribute to a local compilation album of blues artists,[1] and released her debut album Ten Dollar Dress with her band Dawn Tyler Blues Project in 2001.[3]
In 2004 she had an acting role as a jazz singer in the film Jack Paradise: Montreal by Night (Jack Paradise, Les nuits de Montréal), and performed much of the film's soundtrack.[4] Over the next number of years she regularly collaborated with guitarist Paul Deslauriers,[5] with whom she recorded the albums En Duo (2007)[6] and Southland (2013).[7]
In 2016 she released the solo album Jawbreaker!,[8] and in 2017 she won the International Blues Challenge.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Roger Levesque, "Dawn Tyler Watson expresses her Mad Love for the blues continuum". Edmonton Journal, November 13, 2019.
- ^ Stephen Cooke, "Virtual 2020 Juno Awards includes breakthrough win for Neon Dreams". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, June 29, 2020.
- ^ "Dawn Tyler Blues Project: Ten Dollar Dress". Sherbrooke Record, November 9, 2001.
- ^ Brendan Kelly, "Jazz film's got no rhythm: Magic is missing Roy Dupuis, great score can't save flimsy story". Montreal Gazette, February 20, 2004.
- ^ Norman Provencher, "Blues duo rocking steady: Ups and downs eased with a bit of swing". Ottawa Citizen, February 13, 2006.
- ^ Mike Regenstreif, "Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers ... en duo". Montreal Gazette, April 26, 2007.
- ^ Brian Kelly, "'Somebody has to take lead'". Sault Star, March 1, 2013.
- ^ Kathryn Greenaway, "Watson brings brash new sound to blues festival". Montreal Gazette, June 15, 2016.
- ^ Peter Hendra, "'The blues chose me'; Canadian musician brings band to Kingston to headline Limestone City Blues Festival". Kingston Whig-Standard, August 24, 2017.
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