Biography
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Born
26 April 1970 (age 54)
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Born In
Saskatoon, Rural Municipality of Corman Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
SUZIE VINNICK - “…a voice of spun gold and honey” Access Magazine
A Saskatoon native living in Toronto, Canada, Suzie Vinnick is the owner of a gorgeous, powerful voice and performs with a sweet mixture of engaging candidness and unparalleled musicianship.
Suzie was nominated for a 2012 Juno in the Blues Album of Year Category for her album Me ‘n’ Mabel. She also won the 2011 Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Singer of the Year and Female Vocalist and Songwriter at the 2011 Canadian Maple Blues Awards. Suzie was also nominated for a 2011 JUNO for her album with The Marigolds entitled That’s the State I’m In and for a 2009 JUNO for her 3rd solo album, Happy Here, produced by Juno-Award winning singer/songwriter Stephen Fearing. She has previously won 6 Canadian Maple Blues Awards and has also twice won 1st place in the Blues Category of the International Songwriting Competition - in 2010 for the song Sometimes I Think I Can Fly, co-written with Dan Kershaw, and in 2005 for the song The Honey I Want, co-written with Liz Tansey and David Leask.
Suzie has toured nationally with Stuart McLean’s The Vinyl Café, the John McDermott band and with Girls Sing Boys. Suzie made her New York City debut in October 2011 supporting John Hammond at a free outdoor stage in Madison Square Park and has performed for Canadian Peacekeepers in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf.
She performs powerfully as a solo act or with her tasteful side players, as a duo and band with Rick Fines, and is also a member of the groups the Marigolds (with Gwen Swick and Caitlin Hanford of Quartette) and Betty & the Bobs. She was also the voice of Tim Horton’s for 5 years.
Suzie’s latest release is a solo acoustic blues album entitled Me ‘n’ Mabel which was produced by Danny Greenspoon.
QUOTES
"I really like your work…”
Gordon Lightfoot
"An engaging performer…"
The Globe & Mail
“One of my favorite singers.”
Holger Petersen, CBC’s Saturday Night Blues
“One of the greatest voices in Canada!!”
Elaine Overholt; vocal coach to Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, Catherine Zeta-Jones
“Stephen Fearing has helped Suzie Vinnick make her best record yet.”
Stuart McLean, Vinyl Café, CBC Radio
“Her solo work jumps genre barriers with the ease of an Olympic hurdles champion…
She's equally at home in folk, blues, pop and country”
Kerry Doole, Exclaim Magazine
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