Colleen (Susan) Peterson. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, b Peterborough, Ont, 14 Nov 1950, d Toronto 9 Oct 1996. She sang with a succession of folk and rock groups, including Three's A Crowd in Ottawa and TCB in New York, appeared in Hair in Toronto during her teens, and was a member of the duo Spriggs and Bringle (with Mark Haines) in Kingston, Ont, in the early 1970s. She won the Juno Award for most promising female vocalist in 1967 and again in 1977. In the interim, she turned to country music, dividing her time after 1974 between Peterborough, Kingston, Toronto, and Nashville, Tenn. She was co-host with Rick Neufeld in 1977 for CBC TV's 'On the Road.'
In Country magazine, after her recording of the standard 'Crazy' became a hit on country radio, Peterson commented on her delayed successes in the 1990s: 'I can't remember the last time I heard of a radio station breaking a song all by itself, but CISS-FM did that for me, and it's been a dream come true ... We artists in Canada need this kind of momentum from "out of left field." I know I did.' About Peterson's career, Larry Delaney in Country Music Newssaid, "Musically, Colleen was always ahead of her time -- it has only been in recent years that the music industry finally caught on to what she has been delivering."
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