Fawn Wood

Fawn Wood is a Cree and Salish musician from St. Paul, Alberta, Canada.[1] She is most noted for her album Kakike, for which she won the Juno Award for Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022.[2]

She is the daughter of Earl Wood, a musician with the traditional Cree group Northern Cree,[3] and the cousin of Joel Wood, a musician who was a fellow Juno nominee in the same category in 2022.

She studied the Cree language at Blue Quills University.[1]

References
  1. Samantha Schwientek, "Alberta Juno nominee says learning Cree brought more beauty to her music". CBC News Edmonton, March 13, 2022.
  2. Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2022 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, May 14, 2022.
  3. Jenny Giovanetti, "Artist Spotlight: Fawn Wood". Lakota Times, November 7, 2013.


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