Sylvia Tyson

Sylvia Tyson, born Sylvia Fricker, was one of the more beloved voices of the early- to mid-'60s folk boom, and was also among the few female folkies of the era to write a major song in the genre. Born in southern Ontario in 1940 to a Canadian father and a Canadian-American mother, she wanted to become a folksinger from the first time she could set her mind on a career goal -- both of her parents were musical, and also unusually educated and well-read in a working-class town where going to college wasn't a typical goal and aspiring to sing folk songs even odder as a choice of a...