Ken Yates

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Ken Yates
Born London, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)Vocalist, guitarist

Ken Yates is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, who won the Canadian Folk Music Awards for English Songwriter of the Year and New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2017. [1]

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Originally from London, Ontario, [2] Yates studied at the Berklee College of Music. [3] He released The Backseat EP in 2011, and followed up with his full-length debut twenty-three in 2013. [3] He won the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award in 2014 for his song "The One That Got Away". [4]

His second album, Huntsville, was released in 2016 and was produced by Jim Bryson. [5]

Yates released the singles, "Two Wrongs", "Quiet Talkers", and "When We Came Home", in advance of his full-length album, Quiet Talkers, released in 2020. He released Cerulean, on June 3, 2022. [6]

He released his latest album, Total Cinema, on June 6, 2025. [7]


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References

  1. ↑ "Six highlights From the 2017 Canadian Folk Music Awards" Archived 2022-11-28 at the Wayback Machine . Now , November 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Canadian Folk Music Awards celebrate artists old and new, including London’s Ken Yates". London Free Press , November 20, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Five Questions With… Ken Yates". FYI Music News, September 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Toronto's Ken Yates Receives 2014 Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award". Ontario Arts Council, October 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Ken Yates: Huntsville". Exclaim! , September 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ "About".
  7. ↑ "Total Cinema review". 4 June 2025.


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