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What was the reason Shirley Eikhard died? A Canadian songwriter who won a Grammy has died at the age of 67. Something sad is happening on the internet and it has to do with the Canadian music industry. Shirley Eikhard was one of Canada’s best-known singer-songwriters. FOLLOW FOR MORE UPDATES newsyorbits.com
She was known for writing songs like “Something to Talk About,” which Bonnie Raitt sang. Shirley Rose Eikhard was her full name. Her fans are posting about her and sending condolences to her family because she has passed away and is no longer with us. FOLLOW FOR MORE UPDATES TWITTER
RIP Shirley Eikhard
Shirley was born in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, on November 7, 1955, and grew up there with her parents. Cecil Eikhard, bassist, was her mother and June Eikhard was her father. She started in the music business when she was very young. In 1969, when she performed her first show,
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she was only 13 years old. She played at the Mariposa Folk Festival with Joni Mitchell, Ian & Sylvia and Bruce Cockburn after her audition went well. After this, it was another two years before Capitol Records heard about her and her growing popularity. She was signed to the label in 1972, and that same year they released her first album, Shirley Eikhard.
After her album came out when she was 17, it became very popular, which led to her winning two Juno Awards in a row, the 1973 and 1974 Juno Awards. She then stopped making music for three years. When she returned, she had three incredible new albums: Child of the Present, Let Me Down Easy, and Horizons for Attic Records. In the 1980s, she began to sing in clubs, although she was afraid of the stage and had problems with her voice. Since she was allergic to cigarette smoke, the doctor told her not to sing in
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clubs. By 1987, she had advanced in his career, working for WEA Records, and had made an album called “Taking Charge.” In 1989, she wrote songs for Rita Coolidge and Alannah Myles, among others.
In 1985, Anne Murry wanted to record Eikhard’s “Something to Talk About”, but her record company rejected the song. Although the song was not on Murray’s album, Bonnie Raitt released a version as the lead single from her album “Luck of the Draw” in 1991. In the 1990s, the song was playing a lot on the radio and in 1991, Raitt won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Also that year, she won a second Grammy.
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“Something to Talk About” earned Eikhard a Songwriter of the Year nomination at the 1992 Juno Awards and the SOCAN Classics Awards in Canada. But Shirley Eikhard died on December 15, 2022 in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada from cancer. She was 67 years old. Her social networks are full of tributes and messages of pain from her fans.
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