Patricia Cano is a Peruvian Canadian singer and actress from

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, Ontario, most noted for her

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performances in the stage musicals of Tomson Highway. She graduated from the University of Toronto in Spanish Literature and Theatre. Recording and performing a jazz-based style in English,

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and Spanish, she has released two albums as a solo artist, and won a Toronto Theatre Critics Award in 2017 as Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in a production of Highway's ''

The (Post) Mistress ''The (Post) Mistress'' is a musical play by Tomson Highway. The play has also been staged in a French version titled ''Zesty Gopher s'est fait écraser par un frigo''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 ...

nominee for Aboriginal Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015. She played a minor role in the television series ''

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'', and her music has appeared in the television series '' Hard Rock Medical''. Both series starred musician and actor

Stéphane Paquette Stéphane "Stef" Paquette (born December 18, 1973, in Chelmsford, Ontario) is a Franco-Ontarian singer-songwriter, actor and politician. Career A founding member of the band Les Chaizes Muzikales in 1993, Paquette launched a solo career in 20 ...

, who appeared as a duet vocalist on Cano's debut album ''This Is the New World''. In 2022 she performed the lead vocals on ''Cree Country'', an album of original country songs written by Highway and produced by John Alcorn.

Discography

*''This is the New World'' (2009) *''

The (Post) Mistress ''The (Post) Mistress'' is a musical play by Tomson Highway. The play has also been staged in a French version titled ''Zesty Gopher s'est fait écraser par un frigo''Official website
Canadian television actresses Canadian women jazz singers Canadian world music musicians Canadian musical theatre actresses Canadian people of Peruvian descent French-language singers of Canada Spanish-language singers of Canada Actresses from Greater Sudbury Musicians from Greater Sudbury Living people 21st-century Canadian women singers 21st-century Canadian actresses Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-singer-stub