Tenille Townes

Born January 20, 1994, and raised in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Tenille Townes entered the Canadian country scene as a singer and songwriter during the mid-2010s. A 2011 nomination for Female Artist of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards prompted her move to Nashville, where she refined her songwriting. Two earlier albums drew positive notice before her third full-length effort, the Jay Joyce-produced Lemonade Stand, arrived in February 2020 and brought wider recognition. The 2022 EP Masquerades and the 2023 release Train Track Worktapes followed, along with the duet “The Thing That Wrecks You” alongside Bryan Adams.

At fifteen she issued the single “Home Now,” which drew early industry attention in Canada. The follow-up “Wendy (Can You Hear Me Peter Pan)” appeared in 2010, and her debut album Real came out the next year. Light arrived two years later. After relocating to Nashville she secured a publishing agreement with Big Yellow Dog Music. “Somebody’s Daughter” reached the top of the Canadian Country chart in September 2018. That same year she served as support on Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town’s co-headlining The Bandwagon Tour. In 2019 she collected four Canadian Country Music Association Awards, among them Female Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for “Somebody’s Daughter.” Lemonade Stand contained that track as well as “White Horse” and “The Most Beautiful Things.” The semi-autobiographical single “Girl Who Didn’t Care” surfaced the following year. Masquerades, a seven-song EP released in April 2022, featured “When’s It Gonna Happen” and contributions from Breland and Wrabel. “The Last Time” appeared later that year, after which the Bryan Adams collaboration and the solo EP Train Track Worktapes arrived in 2023.