Ian tyson biography
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Ian Tyson
Canadian singer-songwriter (1933–2022)
Ian Dawson TysonCM AOE (25 September 1933 – 29 December 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote several folk songs, including "Four Strong Winds" and "Someday Soon", and performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia.[1]
Early life and education
Ian Dawson Tyson was born on 25 September 1933, in Victoria, British Columbia to George and Margaret Tyson.[2] His father George was an insurance salesman and polo enthusiast who emigrated from England in 1906.[2] Growing up in Duncan, British Columbia,[3] he learned to ride horses on his father's farm, and eventually became a rodeo rider in his late teens and early twenties.
He took up the guitar while in hospital recovering from a broken ankle sustained in a rodeo accident.[3] Fellow Canadian country artist Wilf Carter was a musical influence.[4] He graduated from the Vancouver School of Art i