Lori Cullen is a Canadian pop and

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singer-songwriter."Lori Cullen Teams Up with Ron Sexsmith and Kurt Swinghammer for New Album"
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'', August 18, 2016. She has released seven albums as a solo artist, has collaborated with other artists as a guest musician, and is a

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nominee."The Sun's 2007 Juno Award scorecard". ''

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'', March 31, 2007. Originally from

Mississauga Mississauga ( ), historically known as Toronto Township, is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, adjoining the western border of Toronto. With a popul ...

, Ontario, Cullen released her debut album ''Garden Path'' in 2000. She followed up with ''So Much'', an album of jazz standards, in 2002, before returning to original folk-pop songwriting for 2004's ''Uneven Hill''. During her early career, she kept these two sides of her artistic personality separate, recording distinct albums and distinguishing her live performances as being either folk or jazz shows; during her tour to support ''Uneven Hill'', however, she decided to instead start integrating the two genres. Her song "Away So Long", cowritten with Brian MacMillan, was the winner of the 2005

Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award The Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award is an annual Canadian award, presented to the year's best song by an emerging singer-songwriter from Ontario in the genres of roots, traditional, folk and country music. The award, created in memory of Canadi ...

. Her next album, 2006's ''Calling for Rain'', was an album of covers of artists such as

Joni Mitchell Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell ( Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American musician, producer, and painter. Among the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her sta ...

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, Richard Thompson and

Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern American English, Southern-accented singing style, early Americana (music), Americana-influenced songs (often ...

, done in a style that incorporated both pop and jazz influences. It was nominated for a

for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2007. In 2011, she was featured on

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-based

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's Christmas album ''Cool Yule'', singing "

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". Her most recent album, ''Sexsmith Swinghammer Songs'' (2016), features songs written for her by

Ron Sexsmith Ronald Eldon Sexsmith (born January 8, 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has s ...

and

Kurt Swinghammer Kurt Swinghammer is a Canadian singer-songwriter and visual artist based in Toronto."Canadian pop finds its own way to rock". ''Toronto Star'', 30 June 1989. He has released 13 full-length albums of original songs and as a session musician appea ...

."Lori Cullen Sexsmith Swinghammer Songs"
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'', October 26, 2016.

Discography

* ''Garden Path'' (2000) * ''So Much'' (2002) * ''Uneven Hill'' (2004) * ''Calling for Rain'' (2006) * ''Buttercup Bugle'' (2007) * ''That Certain Chartreuse'' (2011) * ''Sexsmith Swinghammer Songs'' (2016)

References

External links

Official Site
Canadian singer-songwriters Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Musicians from Toronto Canadian women pop singers Canadian women jazz singers Canadian women singer-songwriters 21st-century Canadian women singers {{singer-songwriter-stub