Celeigh Cardinal is a

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folk singer-songwriter from

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."Celeigh Cardinal rakes in 7 nominations for Edmonton Music Awards"

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Edmonton, April 19, 2018. She is most noted for her 2019 album ''Stories from a Downtown Apartment'', which won the Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the

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. On June 25, 2020, the album also earned Cardinal two

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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

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, 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 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

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just south of

, as a host on the

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Radio network for the show "Full Circle", which celebrates

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music from around the globe.

Discography

Source: * 2017 - Everything and Nothing at all (self-released) * 2019 - Stories from a Downtown Apartment (self-released)

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) {{Canada-singer-stub