Liberty Silver

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Liberty Silver (born c. 1962 at Detroit, Michigan[1][2]) is a Toronto-based Canadian singer.

She won two 1985 Juno Awards, one for Best R&B/Soul Recording of the Year ("Lost Somewhere Inside Your Love") and the other for Best Reggae/Calypso Recording ("Heaven Must Have Sent You" with Otis Gayle).

The American-born Silver was adopted into an Ontario family, where she spent her youth in Kingston then Peterborough. As a teenager, she performed in a reggae band which performed in New York City as an opening act for Bob Marley at Madison Square Gardens.[3]

She performed on the 1985 African charity ensemble single "Tears Are Not Enough", particularly during a segment in which she sang with Mike Reno of Loverboy.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Brownstein, Bill. "Making waves: Silver set to take over Le Portage", The (Montreal) Gazette, 26 July 1986, p. D6. . Indicates Detroit birthplace with Kingston, Ontario childhood.
  2. ^ Brownstein, Bill. "Silver was a bargain unlikely to be repeated", The (Montreal) Gazette, 4 August 1986, p. C5.  Identified as 24-year-old.
  3. ^ Barr, Greg. "Liberty Silver: Unleashing that amazing voice", Ottawa Citizen, 3 February 1989, p. B3. 

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