Years active 2006–present Movies Heartbeat, Island Green Music director Heartbeat | Name Tanya Davis Website Tanya Davis | |
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Origin Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, poet Associated acts Jenn Grant, Benn Ross, Catherine MacLellan, Jim Bryson Role Singer-songwriter · tanyadavis.ca Books How to Be Alone, At First, Lonely: Poems Albums Clocks and Hearts Keep Going, Make a List, Gorgeous Morning Genres Pop music, Folk music, Spoken word People also search for Mille Clarkes, Charles Austin, Jay Dahl | ||
How To Be Alone
Tanya Davis is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her style is marked primarily by spoken word poetry set to music.
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Background
Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, she moved to Ottawa for a time after high school to attend university, and then hitchhiked to British Columbia, where she worked in community development before moving to Halifax in 2005.
Career
Shortly after moving to Halifax, Davis began performing spoken word poetry at various cafés in the city. She soon recorded an album, Make a List, which was nominated for Female Recording of the Year, Alternative Recording of the Year and Album of the Year at the Nova Scotia Music Awards, along with a nomination for Davis herself as New Artist of the Year, as well as four nominations for the MusicPEI Awards. She was named poet of the year in The Coast's annual year-end reader's poll for 2007.
She followed up with Gorgeous Morning in 2008.
She has toured across Canada and internationally as a poet and musician, both as a solo artist and with Jenn Grant.
Davis attracted international press attention in 2010 when a performance video of her poem "How to Be Alone" became popular on YouTube. She subsequently released her third album, Clocks and Hearts Keep Going, in November 2010. The album was produced by Jim Bryson.
Davis authored a book of poetry titled At First, Lonely in spring 2011, published by Canadian publisher The Acorn Press. She also served as poet laureate of the Halifax Regional Municipality for 2011-12.
In 2013, she wrote the poetic narration to Millefiore Clarkes' Island Green, a short documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada about organic farming in PEI.
In 2014, she appeared in her first acting role, starring in Andrea Dorfman's film Heartbeat.
Personal life
Davis has stated in the press that she identifies as queer: