Who: Serena Ryder

What: Harmony

Where: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Why: Perhaps it’s not just a coincidence that some of the biggest selling music of all time was made by Canadian women, Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain and Celine Dion to name a few, not to mention Joni Mitchell and Anne Murray before them. Then along comes Serena Ryder, Canada’s latest claimant to the Songbird crown.

When: 2012