Colleen Susan Peterson was a Canadian country and folk singer, who performed both as a solo artist and as a member of the band Quartette.
11 Facts About Colleen Peterson
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Colleen Peterson won an RPM Gold Leaf Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1967 and, in 1968, joined Bruce Cockburn, David Wiffen, Richard Patterson and Dennis Pendrith in a later version of the folk band 3's a Crowd.
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Colleen Peterson then joined the band TCB that recorded an album on the Traffic label.
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Colleen Peterson subsequently moved to Kingston in 1971, forming the band Spriggs and Bringle with Mark Haines.
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Colleen Peterson then relocated to Nashville in 1974, and released her first solo album, Beginning to Feel Like Home, in 1976.
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Colleen Peterson had a hit single on the Billboard country charts with "Souvenirs", and won a Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1977.
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Colleen Peterson continued to perform touring with Gordon Lightfoot, Tom Waits and Ry Cooder, hosting television specials and appearing on Spirit of the Country and The Tommy Hunter Show, and working as a backing vocalist for Waylon Jennings, Roger Miller, Janie Fricke and Marty Stuart.
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In 1986 Colleen Peterson released the single "I Had It All", which was a hit on the Canadian country charts and launched the most successful phase of her career.
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Colleen Peterson toured and recorded with Quartette until 1996, when she was diagnosed with cancer.
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Colleen Peterson is buried in Little Lake Cemetery in Peterborough, Ontario.
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Colleen Peterson was inducted into the Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall of Fame in 1995.