| Name |
Serena Ryder |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
Canadian |
| Date of Birth |
8-December-1982 |
| Place of Birth |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Famous for |
singing |
Serena Ryder is a Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter.
She ranges musically between folk, roots, country, and adult contemporary music. She attended the Integrated Arts Program at Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School in Peterborough as well as Crestwood Secondary School. As a teenager, she performed solo as well as with many bands from the Peterborough area, including Christian band Thousand Foot Krutch and Jive recording artist Three Days Grace.
On 11 November 2008, Ryder released her new EMI album Is It O.K. in Canada. It was released on Atlantic Records in America on 11 February 2009. The single to be taken from it is "Little Bit of Red". The song "All for Love", which appears on Ryder's EP Sweeping the Ashes and album Is It O.K., is featured in an episode of ABC television's Private Practice.
Is It O.K. won the Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year. Ryder was nominated for Artist of the Year on March 29, 2009 in Vancouver.
In 2009, her song "Sing, Sing" was selected for Music Monday, a special event to highlight music education in Canada which saw nearly two million Canadian schoolchildren singing the song in class on May 5.
The following month, Ryder recorded the duet "You Can Always Come Home" with former American Idol contestant Jason Castro for his eponymous first solo album, Jason Castro.
In 2010 won the Juno Award for Video of the Year for "Little Bit of Red" directed by Marc Ricciardelli, with label EMI.
In 2012, Ryder released a new album, Harmony. The first single from it was "Stompa", which was featured in an episode of ABC television's Grey's Anatomy.
