Dawn Tyler Watson is a Canadian blues and jazz singer.[1] She is most noted for her 2019 album Mad Love, which won the Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020.[2]
Born in Manchester, England, Watson emigrated to Canada with her family in childhood.[1] Raised in Southwestern Ontario, she moved to Montreal to study jazz at Concordia University.[1] She first began performing blues after being invited to contribute to a local compilation album of blues artists,[1] and released her debut album Ten Dollar Dress with her band Dawn Tyler Blues Project in 2001.[3]
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.[4] Over the next number of years she regularly collaborated with guitarist Paul Deslauriers,[5] with whom she recorded the albums En Duo (2007)[6] and Southland (2013).[7]
In 2016 she released the solo album Jawbreaker!,[8] and in 2017 she won the International Blues Challenge
Born in Manchester, England, Watson emigrated to Canada with her family in childhood.[1] Raised in Southwestern Ontario, she moved to Montreal to study jazz at Concordia University.[1] She first began performing blues after being invited to contribute to a local compilation album of blues artists,[1] and released her debut album Ten Dollar Dress with her band Dawn Tyler Blues Project in 2001.[3]
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.[4] Over the next number of years she regularly collaborated with guitarist Paul Deslauriers,[5] with whom she recorded the albums En Duo (2007)[6] and Southland (2013).[7]
In 2016 she released the solo album Jawbreaker!,[8] and in 2017 she won the International Blues Challenge
