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Serena Ryder

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Folk rock

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Folk-rock singer Serena Ryder was born in Ontario and grew up listening to her parents' Beatles and Leonard Cohen records. After joining an artist's commune at the age of 17 she began to perform locally and came to the attention of fellow Canadian singer-songwriter Hawksley Workman. Workman owned a small independent record label called Isadora and subsequently backed the limited release of Ryder's first live album 'Live in Oz'. Her career began to take off, albeit slowly, until the release of her fourth studio album 'Is It O.K.' in 2008 which went to number one in the US Heat ...