Tenille Jade Dakota Arts (born April 19, 1994) is a Canadian
country music
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singer from
Weyburn
Weyburn is the eleventh-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. The city has a population of 10,870. It is on the Souris River southeast of the provincial capital of Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina and is north from the North Dakota border in the ...
,
Saskatchewan
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. She released a self-titled
extended play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. and her debut studio album ''
Rebel Child'' with 19th & Grand Records before signing a joint record deal with indie label Reviver Records in 2018. Her first album under that deal, ''
Love, Heartbreak, & Everything in Between'', was released in January 2020. Arts was nominated for the Discovery Artist Award by the
Canadian Country Music Association
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in 2016 and has received multiple awards from the Saskatchewan Country Music Association. She released her third studio album ''
Girl to Girl'' in October 2021 on 19th & Grand. Arts is currently signed to Dreamcatcher Artists.
Biography
Arts was raised in her hometown of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, where she began taking lessons in
piano
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and
singing
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, and developed an interest in songwriting in her teenage years.
By 2009, she began posting videos of her
cover version
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s of popular songs, including one of
Taylor Swift
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's "
Fifteen" that captured the attention of a talent manager from
Nashville
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,
Tennessee
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.
Arts briefly relocated to Nashville to pursue this opportunity, but returned to Canada to finish high school. In 2015, she relocated to Nashville to sign a publishing contract with Noble Vision Music Group and released "Breathe", a
charity single
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George Harrison's " Bangla Desh" single in 1971 is commonly acknowledged as the first ever purpose-mad ...
in support of
Cystic Fibrosis
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research.
She was awarded the Emerging Artists Award from the Saskatchewan Country Music Association and was nominated for the Discovery Artist program from the
Canadian Country Music Association
The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) was founded in 1976 as the Academy of Country Music Entertainment to organize, promote and develop a Canadian country music industry. The groundwork for the association began on June 3rd, 1973 when a g ...
, both in 2016, for her burgeoning success.
That year, she released her debut, self-titled
extended play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. through the independent label imprint 19th & Grand Records. "What He's Into" was released to Canadian country radio in January 2017 as her official debut single and reached 47 on the
Canada Country
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airplay chart.
Following the success of that record, Arts released her debut studio album, ''Rebel Child'', on October 27, 2017, preceded by the single, "Cold Feet". The album reached number 45 on the sales component chart of the ''
Billboard
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''
Top Country Albums
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chart.
In 2018, Arts made an appearance on the
22nd season of popular American
reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 19 ...
series, ''
The Bachelor'', performing an original
ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...
titled, "Moment of Weakness" and in 2020 performing “Somebody Like That”.
Exposure from the show led to increased interest in Arts's music and a record deal from indie label Reviver Records, which she signed in March 2018.
A deluxe edition of ''Rebel Child'' was issued that year with new tracks including "Moment of Weakness". Her first release for Reviver, "I Hate This", was released in the summer of 2018 and charted on the
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.
This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ...
in the United States. A Canadian-exclusive single, "Mad Crazy Love", became Arts's second single to reach the Canadian country airplay charts.
Two further singles were released in 2019 - "Call You Names" and "
Somebody Like That" - to promote her second studio album, ''
Love, Heartbreak, & Everything in Between'', which was released on January 10, 2020.
On October 22, 2021, Arts released her third studio album ''
Girl to Girl'', which included the singles "
Give It to Me Straight" and "
Back Then, Right Now". In 2022, Arts signed with Dreamcatcher Artists as the flagship artist on their label. As part of the deal, Dreamcatcher acquired her entire catalogue and released the new single "
Jealous of Myself".
Arts is set to join
Lee Brice
Kenneth Mobley Brice Jr. (born June 10, 1979), known professionally as Lee Brice, is an American country music singer and songwriter, signed to Curb Records. Brice has released five albums with the label: '' Love Like Crazy'', '' Hard to Love'', ...
on his early 2023 "Beer Drinking Opportunity Tour" in Canada along with
Josh Ross.
Discography
Albums
Extended plays
Singles
Promotional singles
Music videos
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
Official website
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Living people
Canadian women country singers
1994 births
21st-century Canadian women singers
Musicians from Saskatchewan
Canadian Country Music Association Rising Star Award winners