Dawn Tyler Watson

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.^[9]