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Ian Tyson, folk music icon who penned Four Strong Winds, dies age 89
Canadian folk music icon Ian Tyson died Thursday morning, his ex-wife confirmed to CBC News.
His former wife and musical partner, Sylvia Tyson, said the 89-year-old's impact on Canadian culture is hard to overstate.
"I sat in with a young band at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto and they wanted me to do Four Strong Winds with them. It was quite a young audience and I didn't really expect that kind of response, but everybody in the crowd sang Four Strong Winds," she told CBC News in a phone interview Thursday.
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