Crystal Shawanda
Crystal Shawanda is a Canadian blues and country music artist. CMT documented her rise to fame in the six-part series Crystal: Living the Dream. 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, 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. 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, as well as the first to win the CCMA for Female artist of the year in 2009, and the first to win a Juno Award for "Blues Album of the UYear" in 2020, and the first to appear in the Top 10 of the American Billboard Blues chart in 2022.
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