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Chanteuse
Country Canadienne née le 28 Mai 1980 à Toronto (Ontario).
Blessed
with a voice that suggests the high lonesome purity of
Dolly Parton and
Emmylou Harris with an undertow of smoky
sophistication, Lindi Ortega is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has become
a rising star on the North American alt-country scene. Ortega was born and
raised in the suburbs of Ontario; her mother was of Irish heritage, while her
father's family came from Mexico. Her father was a musician who played bass in a
Latino band, and Lindi has cited growing up in a house filled with music and
seeing her dad work with gifted Latina vocalists as a key formative experience.
When she was sixteen, she borrowed a guitar from her parents and began teaching
herself to play, and once she mastered three chords, she started writing songs.
Ortega absorbed a broad range of influences -- iconic singer/songwriters
such as Leonard Cohen and Van Morrison, country legends like
Loretta Lynn and
Johnny Cash, and contemporary acts such as Jeff Buckley and Cat Power -- and
by the time she graduated from high school, she'd began performing at local
clubs. In 2001, Ortega released her first album, The Taste of Forbidden Fruit,
which she released herself, selling most of the copies from the stage at her
shows, and a second LP, Fall from Grace, appeared in 2007. Ortega's next project
was a self-titled EP issued in 2008 in which she teamed up with producer Ron
Lopata, who had heard her material via her MySpace page and was impressed with
her voice. The Canadian label Cherrytree Records signed Ortega, and she released
an EP, 2008's The Drifter, also produced by Lopata, which brought her to the
attention of a wider audience. She began touring extensively, both as a
headliner and opening for acts such as Ray Davies, Noah and the Whale, Keane,
and Kevin Costner & Modern West.
In 2010, Ortega went on the road with Brandon Flowers of the Killers, singing
backup on his solo tour. In 2010, she parted ways with Cherrytree Records and
signed a new deal with Last Gang Records, who released her album Little Red
Boots in the summer of 2011. Little Red Boots earned two Juno Awards and was
nominated for the Polaris Prize for outstanding Canadian album. In the wake of
the album's critical success, Ortega relocated to Nashville, Tennessee and cut
the album Cigarettes & Truckstops, which also earned positive notices and
another Polaris Prize nomination when it was released in October 2012.
Cigarettes & Truckstops also marked Ortega's first entry on the American Country
charts, when the album rose to number 71 on the Country Albums survey. The newly
prolific Ortega released 2013's Tin Star one year and six days after her
previous studio effort, and like Cigarettes & Truckstops, it fared well on the
U.S. Country Albums chart, peaking at number 56. 2014 saw the release of a
digital live EP, The iTunes Session, and Ortega winning a Canadian Country Music
Association award as Best Roots Artist of the Year. She won the same CCMA award
in 2015, and that year she also issued Faded Gloryville, which climbed to number
39 on the U.S. Country Charts, and number 38 on the indie chart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindi_Ortega
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Piano, Ukulele, Songwriter
Style musical : Americana, Traditional Country, Pop Rock
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Single & EP
| 03/2008 | EP ? (CAN) |
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Goodbye My Love / Lonely Day / Dying Of Another Broken Heart / So Far Gone / Black Fly / All My Friends |
| 09/2008 | CD Cherrytree B0012788-32 (CAN) |
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The Drifter E.P. - Dying Of Another Broken Heart / All My Friends / Black Fly / Drifter (Answering Machine) |
| 2011 | CD LAST GANG ? (UK) (promo) |
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Little Lie |
| 11/2011 | EP LAST GANG Q201372 (CAN) |
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Tennessee Christmas - Christmas Eve With You / All I Want For Christmas Is A Cowboy / Blue Christmas / Christmas Carol |
| 2012 | SP LAST GANG Q1-01433 (CAN) | . |
Ring Of Fire / Fires |
| 2012 | CD LAST GANG ? (UK) (promo) |
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When All The Stars Align (Ash Howes Radio Mix) |
| 2013 | EP Daytrotter ? (CAN) |
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Daytrotter Sessions - Welcome To Daytrotter / Cigarettes And Truckstops / Demons Don’t Get Me Down / The Day You Die / Don’t Wanna Hear It |
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Albums
| 2001 | CD Lindi Ortega ? (CAN) |
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The Taste of Forbidden Fruit - Misery My Love / Nothing At All / Coffee Shops / Sweet Jezebel / Naughty Little Thing / Secret / A Little Peace / Tomorrow You'll Say Goodbye / Hidden / Lipstick Traces |
| 02/2007 | CD Lindi Ortega ? (CAN) |
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Fall From Grace - Stumble And Fall / Under Your Radar / Committing Crimes / Drift / Hard To Love / I'll Be Here / How The Wind Blows / Oh Dear / Beautiful Boys |
| 06/2011 | CD LAST GANG Q1-01249 (CAN) |
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Little Red Boots - Little Lie / When All The Stars Align / Blue Bird / Angels / I'm No Elvis Presley / Little Red Boots / Dying Of Another Broken Heart / All My Friends / Fall Down Or Fly / Jimmy Dean / Black Fly / So Sad |
| 10/2012 | CD LAST GANG Q2-01408 (CAN) |
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Cigarettes And Truckstops - Cigarettes And Truckstops / The Day You Die / Lead Me On / Don't Wanna Hear It / Demons Don't Get Me Down / Murder Of Crows / Heaven Has No Vacancy / High / Use Me / Every Mile Of The Ride |
| 10/2013 | CD LAST GANG Q2-01500 (CAN) |
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Tin Star - Hard As This / Gypsy Child / Tin Star / Voodoo Mama / Lived And Died Alone / I Want You / This Is Not Surreal / Something For You / All These Cats / Waitin' On My Luck To Change / Songs About |
| 08/2015 | CD LAST GANG / Grand Tour Q2-01625 (CAN) |
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Faded Gloryville - Ashes / Faded Gloryville / Tell It Like It Is / Someday Soon / To Love Somebody / When You Ain't Home / Run-Down Neighborhood / I Ain't the Girl / Run Amuck / Half Moon |
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