Dianne Leigh

Canadian Country/Pop singer and drummer. She started her career in the early 60s singing with pop group The Sapphires in Toronto and then moved onto country as vocalist with The Sons Of The Saddle. She then drummed on tour briefly for Patsy Cline. In 1963 she cut her first solo records in Nashville for Chart Records (4), which proved more popular in her home country of Canada than in the U.S. Won RPM's "Top Country Singer Female" award for 1965 and the first Juno Award for Best Country Female Singer for 1970. Inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015. Born: 1940 or 1941 in Toronto, Canada