Skye Alexandra
Sweetnam (born May 5, 1988) is a Canadian singer of the
early 2000s. She released her first single, "Billy
S.", in 2003; it appears on her first album, Noise
from the Basement, which was released on September 21,
2004. Her debut album features 13 songs, including the
singles "Tangled Up in Me" and "Number
One".
Sweetnam has also guest-starred on the television show
Radio Free Roscoe, on which she sings the theme song.
She also sings the theme song to The Buzz on Maggie,
which is called "Just the Way I Am". She also
sings the theme song for a new Canadian TV show called
Wayside based on the books by Louis Sachar; the song is
called "Fly By the Wayside". In 2006, Sweetnam
was nominated for a Juno Award for New Artist of the
Year. Her second album is soon to be released, titled
Sound Soldier.
Background: Born to Deirdre and Greg Sweetnam,
she was named after the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Along
with her sister, Aurora, and her brother, Cameron,
Sweetnam was born and raised in the small town of
Bolton, Ontario, where she studied dancing and singing
from a young age. By her early teens she had moved on to
songwriting, and recorded a demo with the help of a
local Bolton music school.
Sweetnam was also a full-time student at Mayfield Arts
School in Caledon, Ontario, majoring in drama. She
worked with local producer and instrumentalist, James
Robertson. Together, Robertson and Sweetnam worked on
what would later become Noise from the Basement, her
Capitol Records debut. The single "Billy S."
appeared in July 2003 on the soundtrack to the Mandy
Moore movie How to Deal, and quickly took off in the
United States and Canada.
In 2004, Sweetnam went on tour with dodger over Europe
and North America, as the opening act of Britney Spears,
although her part was cut short due to Spears' knee
injury. Sweetnam's new album, Sound Soldier, which she
describes as "Nine Inch Nails meets Britney
Spears", is set to be released in late 2007.
Boyhunter, one of the upcoming songs from Sound Soldier,
was chosen to be in the new The Sims 2: Pets game, and
Sugar Guitar,with the song being re-recorded in simlish.
She is the singing voice of Barbie in the straight to
video release, The Barbie Diaries and has recorded songs
for the movie. Sugar Guitar from the Japanese Special
Edition of Noise From The Basement is featured in a new
Zellers commercial - for the 2007 back to school
shopping television ad campaign. In 2007 Tim Armstrong
recorded the song he did with Sweetnam called "Into
Action" and released it as his single in March.
Sweetnam's vocals are featured in the chorus of the
song, and she appears in the video of the song.
Sound Soldier: On both her official Myspace page
and website, Skye confirmed that her upcoming album,
Sound Soldier will be released in Canada by the end of
2007. On July 21, 2007, Skye uploaded a new track
called, "Bring It Back" on her MySpace. She
had previously performed the song at her Sea World gig
in 2005. On August 30, 2007, Sweetnam performed at the
CD release party for dodger.
She performed brand new material including,
"Boyhunter", her verison of "Into
Action", "Makeout Song",
"Ghosts", and "Music Is My
Boyfriend". Sweetnam also stated that the first
single from Sound Soldier would be "Human" and
that the album would be out in Canada in early October.
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