Diyet van Lieshout is a Canadian singer-songwriter from the Yukon, who has recorded and performed both as a solo artist and with the band Diyet and the Love Soldiers.[1] She is most noted as a Canadian Folk Music Award winner for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year at the 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards.[2]
Of Japanese, Scottish, Tlingit and Southern Tutchone ancestry, she was born and raised in the Kluane Lake region of Yukon,[1] and is a member of the Kluane First Nation.[3] She met her husband Robert van Lieshout, the guitarist in her band, while travelling in Europe.[1]
She released her debut album, The Breaking Point, in 2010, and followed up in 2013 with When You Were King.[4] Diyet and the Love Soldiers, her first album to be credited to the full band rather than solo, was released in 2018, and was promoted in part by her first significant concert dates outside of Yukon.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Roger Levesque, "Home inspires exceptional roots music synergies from Prairie duo, Yukon trio". Edmonton Journal, September 24, 2019.
- ^ Allie Gregory, "Watch the Online Ceremony for the 2020 Canadian Folk Music Awards Winners". Exclaim!, April 5, 2020.
- ^ "Northerners Diyet, Joshua Haulli among nominees for Canadian Folk Music Awards". CBC North, November 20, 2019.
- ^ Meagan Gillmore, "Peaceful songs for angry people". Yukon News, August 16, 2013.
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