Fawn Wood is a Cree and Salish musician from St. Paul, Alberta, Canada.Samantha Schwientek, "Alberta Juno nominee says learning Cree brought more beauty to her music". CBC News Edmonton, March 13, 2022. She is most noted for her album Kakike, for which she won the Juno Award for Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022.Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2022 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, May 14, 2022.
She is the daughter of Earl Wood, a musician with the traditional Cree group Northern Cree,Jenny Giovanetti, "Artist Spotlight: Fawn Wood". Lakota Times, November 7, 2013. and the cousin of Joel Wood, a musician who was a fellow Juno nominee in the same category in 2022. Her younger sister Tia is also a singer, who signed to Sony Music in 2024 after gaining popularity performing on social networking platforms.Shayne Stephens, "‘We’re a thriving, beautiful people.’ How a young singer went from TikTok star to one of the first Indigenous women signed by Sony Music Canada". Toronto Star, September 25, 2024.
She studied the Cree language at Blue Quills University.
Discography Singles Year Single Peak chart positions Album CAN CountryReferences for Canada Country: "Kakike": 2024 "Kakike" 60 Kâkike"—" denotes releases that did not chart.
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