Tenille Townes might be a new name to you, but the Canadian country singer has been making waves in Alberta for a while, including several Canadian CMA nominations. Recently, she was named one of Amazon Music’s “2019 Artists to Watch” and part of the Bobby Bones Show’s “Class of 2019”.
Her first single “Home Now” was released in 2009. She released two albums with Royalty Records and then later signed with Columbia Nashville, whose roster includes artists like Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Luke Combs, and Maren Morris.
Tenille’s first song with Columbia is titled “Somebody’s Daughter” and essentially humanizes a homeless girl who can frequently be found on a street corner holding a sign, but was once a girl whom everyone knew as “normal”.
When Tenille was just fifteen, she learned about how many homeless youths lived in her hometown and she was moved to do something about it. She decided to begin raising money for Sunrise House, a homeless youth shelter in Alberta. She began the annual fundraising event “Big Hearts for Big Kids,” an event that’s grown larger every year. Since then, she’s raised over $1.5 million for the shelter and the Grande Prairie Youth Emergency Shelter Society.
In March 2019, she released “White Horse” and explained, “White Horse is a song about how love can look a little different than we might expect it to. I think it’s important to be open hearted and to push the boundaries of what society might build up in our expectations.” Her full-length debut album is set to release later this year on Columbia Nashville.
If you haven’t seen Tenille in concert, make sure you mark your calendar! She’s currently on tour, both on her own, playing shows with Maren Morris, and as part of the “Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars” tour with Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Ashley Mcbryde, and more.