Crystal Shawanda
About Crystal Shawanda
Crystal Shawanda (born July 26, 1983) is an Ojibwe Potawatomi blues and country music artist from Canada. CMT documented her rise to fame in the six-part series Crystal: Living the Dream, which was broadcast in February 2008. Signed to RCA Nashville in 2007, she released her first single, "You Can Let Go", in Canada in January 2008. It was the fastest climbing single on the Canadian Country Singles Chart since Carolyn Dawn Johnson's "Georgia" in 2000, reaching the Top 10 in five weeks. It was released in the United States on February 25, 2008. and reached #2 on the American Mediabase chart. In 2009, she was named CCMA Female artist of the year and went on to win the JUNO award for Aboriginal Album of the Year in 2013. She became the first full blood Indigenous woman to appear in the Top 20 on the American Billboard Country chart, to sell over 300k records, and to sing at the Grand Ole Opry, and the first to appear in the Top 10 of the American Billboard Blues chart in 2022.
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- 15,406 listeners
- 147,152 plays