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Crystal Shawanda
Country / Rock / Acoustic



NASHVILLE, Tennessee
United States

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Member Since8/9/2006
Band Websitecrystalshawandaonline.com
InfluencesLoretta Lynn
Dwight Yoakam
Hank Williams
Patty Loveless
Patsy Cline
Janis Joplin
Pam Tillis
DeWayne Strobel
Scott Hendricks
Tina Turner
and Smiley Bates
Sounds LikeCrystal Shawanda,very,very Crystal Shawanda

Record LabelRCA Nashville Sony/Bmg
Type of LabelMajor


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Nov 5 2009 8:00P
Pantages Theatre Winnipeg, Manitoba
Nov 12 2009 8:00P
Rama Casino (Private Event) Rama, Ontario
Nov 13 2009 8:00P
Beausoleil First Nation Community Ctr Christian Island, Ontario
Nov 17 2009 8:00P
Russell & District Community Centre Russell, Manitoba
Nov 21 2009 8:00P
Shooting Star Casino Mahnomen, Minnesota
Nov 28 2009 8:00P
TBD Hamilton, Ontario
Dec 9 2009 8:00P
Kewadin Casino Kewadin, Ontario
Dec 12 2009 8:00P
christmas show little current, Ontario
Dec 31 2009 8:00P
New Years Eve w/ Johnny Reid Penticton, British Columbia
Jan 23 2010 8:00P
Seven Clans Casino Red Lake, Minnesota
Feb 25 2010 8:00P
The Olympics Vancouver, British Columbia

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   About Crystal Shawanda
     I’m Native American. We’re automatically country … joined to the land and the real stories of everyday people. A long time ago, we traditionally used music as our daily prayer and as our way of giving thanks. To Native Americans, music is our everything. It’s our storytelling, our history, and our dance. We use it to remember and to forget. It’s how we celebrate life and mourn death.

     I wrote my first song at 9, not knowing that songwriting would become my way of coping with the hopelessness I saw around me on the reservation. Growing up, I watched too many people lose hope and leave this earth … including cousins and many friends of mine. I watched as my brothers lost almost every childhood friend before they were 16. But music was my hope. It saved me, and it became a doorway for me to find freedom from the hopelessness that we all felt on the reservation. Loretta Lynn was my childhood hero … and she continues to be that for me today. I grew up watching her be a friend to my mom through her music. Mom would sing along with those records like finally someone understood her. I want to be that for someone. I was born a country music singer. I was driven to sing, and I drove my parents nuts about it.

     I’m a citizen of both the U.S. and Canada, though I was born in Ontario and grew up on a reservation called Wikwemikong on Canada’s Manitoulin Island. My daddy drove a truck from Michigan straight through Nashville on his North-South run, so I had a ride whenever they would let me go. I started my trips to Nashville at the age of 11. We stood on the sidewalk in front of Nashville’s famed Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge and watched through the window. I was scared I would be told I wasn’t good enough. By 12, I had written enough songs to do my own little demo album which I sold back home to pay for more trips to Nashville. Country music had become my full time way of relating to my world. If I couldn’t write and sing, I couldn’t talk and feel.




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Nov 27 2009 5:26 PM

how was ur thanksgivin?
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Nov 26 2009 2:57 PM

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Nov 26 2009 8:13 AM

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU DEAR, HAVE A GREAT TIME.
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Nov 25 2009 4:51 PM

Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving...love ya!!
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Nov 25 2009 4:06 PM


Thanks for your friendship!
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Nov 25 2009 3:34 PM

Hey Girl! Just droppin by 2 say hi! Hope all is well with u n da fam! & Happy Thanksgiving Tomorrow, lol :-)
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Nov 25 2009 1:49 AM

Hi!

Just checking in on you my friend and hoping you are well!

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and all those you love!

Please stay in touch from time to time and let me know how you are!

Your friend,

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Nov 24 2009 4:59 PM

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Nov 24 2009 9:26 AM

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I just stopped by for a visit and to say "HI".

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Nov 23 2009 3:47 AM

It was nice to meet you and your show at the Shooting Star was incredible. Your voice is amazing. Your band and lead guitarist are fantasitc musicians. One of the very best performances that I have ever taken in.
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Nov 20 2009 3:59 PM


Hi Sweetie!

May you and your family always be blessed with the wonderful gifts of life!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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