Lindi Ortega

Blessed with a voice that suggests the high lonesome purity of Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris with an undertow of smoky sophistication, Lindi Ortega is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has become a bona fide star on the North American alt-country scene. Ortega was born and raised in the suburbs of Ontario; her mother was of Irish heritage while her father's family came from Mexico. Her father was a musician who played bass in a Latino band, and Ortega has cited growing up in a house filled with music and seeing her dad work with gifted Latina vocalists as a key formative ...