COLLEEN PETERSON

COLLEEN PETERSON

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About COLLEEN PETERSON

Colleen Susan Peterson (born 14 November 1950; died 9 October 1996) was a Canadian country and folk singer, who performed both as a solo artist and as a member of the band Quartette. Peterson began performing in coffeehouses in Ottawa in 1966. She won an RPM Gold Leaf Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1967 and, in 1968, joined Bruce Cockburn, David Wiffen, Richard Patterson and Dennis Pendrith in a later version of the Vancouver folk band 3's a Crowd. She then joined the 70s American band TCB that recorded an album on the Traffic label, after which she left. Following her 1978 album Taking My Boots Off, Peterson did not record new material for several years, although she appeared on two albums by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1980 and 1981. In 1986 Peterson released the single "I Had It All", which was a hit on the Canadian country charts and launched the most successful phase of her career. She released the album Basic Facts, her first in ten years, in 1988, and had a string of ten hits, including "No Pain, No Gain", which hit No. 1 on the Canadian country charts in 1991. In 1993, she joined Tyson, Caitlin Hanford and Cindy Church for a one-off concert at Toronto's Harbourfront, and the four continued to work together, adopting the name Quartette and releasing their first album in 1994.

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