Tenille Nicole Townes (born Nadkrynechny; January 20, 1994) is a Canadian
country music
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singer from
Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie is a city in northwest Alberta, Canada within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) and Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), a ...
,
Alberta
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. In 2011, at the age of 17, she was nominated for a
Canadian Country Music Award for Female Artist of the Year.
Biography
Townes was raised in Grande Prairie, Alberta, and attended Peace Wapiti Academy high school.
She was introduced to country music by her parents and grandparents during trips in the family car. At the age of nine, she attended a concert by Shania Twain during her
Up! Tour bearing a sign asking for chance to sing with Twain on stage, which Twain granted.
In 2009, she released the single "Home Now", a song she wrote from the perspective of a daughter whose father is posted in the
war in Afghanistan
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*Conquest of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great (330 BC – 327 BC)
* Muslim conquests of Afghanistan (637–709)
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, a topic she learned about in school.
The track was produced by country musician
Duane Steele.
She released her first album, ''Real'', in June 2011. She has raised over $1.9 million for Sunrise House, a shelter for homeless youth in Alberta, through her annual fundraiser, Big Hearts For Big Kids. She appeared on the national television show ''
Canada AM
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'' in August 2011, performing her single "Real Me," and has released multiple songs to radio. She released her second album, ''Light'', in March 2013. That same year, she relocated to Nashville.
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Although she started her career under her birthname, she later changed her surname to "Townes." In a 2018 interview on Everything GP, she explained, "Townes is actually from Township Road 722, which is the road that I grew up on and the house that built me essentially, so that’s where that all comes from.”
On April 13, 2018, she announced, through her official ]Facebook
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page that she had signed a record deal with Columbia Nashville
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. She released her first single with the label, " Somebody's Daughter," in September 2018, and it became her first to chart, where it reached number 92 on the Canadian Hot 100 and was a Number One hit on the Canadian Country chart dated February 2, 2019.
In 2018, she served as the opening act for all dates for Miranda Lambert
Miranda Leigh Lambert (born November 10, 1983) is an American country singer and guitarist. Born in Longview, Texas, she started out in early 2001 when she released her self-titled debut album independently. In 2003, she finished in third place o ...
and Little Big Town
Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group from Homewood, Alabama. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the same four members since its founding: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman (née Roads), Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbr ...
on their joint ''The Bandwagon Tour''. In 2019 she appeared on Donovan Woods's album ''The Other Way'', as a duet vocalist on the song "I Ain't Ever Loved No One".["Hear Donovan Woods’ New Acoustic Version of ‘Truck Full of Money’"]
''Rolling Stone
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'', April 16, 2019.
Townes won four awards at the 2019 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 gr ...
(CCMA) Awards, which included one for Female Artist of the year, and three for "Somebody's Daughter" which won Single, Song, and Video of the Year.
Discography
Albums
Extended plays
Singles
Other charted songs
Music videos
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
Official website
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Living people
People from Grande Prairie
Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
Canadian women country singers
1994 births
21st-century Canadian women singers
Musicians from Alberta
Canadian Country Music Association Female Artist of the Year winners
Canadian Country Music Association Single of the Year winners
Canadian Country Music Association Songwriter(s) of the Year winners
Juno Award for Country Album of the Year winners
Canadian Country Music Association Album of the Year winners