Dawn Tyler Watson is a Canadian

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and

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singer.Roger Levesque
"Dawn Tyler Watson expresses her Mad Love for the blues continuum"
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'', November 13, 2019. She is most noted for her 2019 album ''Mad Love'', which won the

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for Blues Album of the Year at the

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. Born in

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, Watson emigrated to Canada with her family in childhood. Raised in

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, she moved to

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to study jazz at

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. She first began performing blues after being invited to contribute to a local compilation album of blues artists, and released her debut album ''Ten Dollar Dress'' with her band Dawn Tyler Blues Project in 2001. 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. Over the next number of years she regularly collaborated with guitarist Paul Deslauriers, with whom she recorded the albums ''En Duo'' (2007) and ''Southland'' (2013). In 2016 she released the solo album ''Jawbreaker!'', and in 2017 she won the

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.Peter Hendra, "'The blues chose me'; Canadian musician brings band to Kingston to headline Limestone City Blues Festival". ''

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'', August 24, 2017.

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