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Carolyn Dawn Johnson

Born1971-04-30
BirthplaceGrande Prairie
CountryCanada
Genderfemale

Biography

Carolyn Dawn Johnson (born April 30, 1971 in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian Juno Award winning country music singer-songwriter. Johnsons first rose to fame by co-writing Chely Wrights 1999 Number One single, "Single White Female", which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart in September 1999. In 2000, Johnson signed with Arista Nashville and, in 2001, released her debut album, Room with a View.

The albums first two singles ("Georgia" and "Complicated") were both Number One hits on the Canadian country music charts, and the latter was a Top Ten hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Although her next single ("I Dont Want You to Go") was also a Top Ten in the U.S., her chart success there would wane not long afterward, though she has had continued success in her native Canada.

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Carolyn Dawn Johnson is a graduate of R.F. Staples Secondary School in Westlock, AB Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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