Ian Tyson
Ian Dawson Tyson CM, AOE is a Canadian singersongwriter, best known for his song Four Strong Winds. He was also one half of the duo Ian amp Sylvia.
Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria in 1933, and grew up in Duncan B.C. A rodeo rider in his late teens and early twenties, he took up the guitar while recovering from an injury he sustained in a fall. He has named fellow Canadian country artist Wilf Carter as a musical influence. He made his singing debut at the Heidelberg Caf in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1956 and played with a rock and roll band, The Sensational Stripes. After graduation from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958, Tyson moved to Toronto, Ontario where he commenced a job as a commercial artist. There he performed in local clubs and in 1959 began to sing on occasion with Sylvia Fricker. By early 1959 Tyson and Fricker were performing parttime at the Village Corner as Ian amp Sylvia. The pair became a fulltime musical act in 1961 and married four years later. In 1969, they formed and fronted the group The Great Speckled Bird. Residing in southern Alberta, Tyson toured all over the world.
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