Los Angeles: Sixteen year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Christine Evans, who emerged from the same thriving Vancouver Island music scene that introduced Nelly Furtado and Diana Krall, won the Album of the Year honor at last month’s Island Music Awards in Vancouver. The award recognizes her second album, 2006’s Push, which scored a Canadian #1 Christian radio hit single with “Break Me.” She also had a holiday season hit in ‘06 with her inspired cover version of fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell’s “River.”
Evans wrote all of Push’s twelve songs and co-produced the album with veteran producer Tom T. Hall. It is slated for a U.S. release this summer. An emerging star in the world of contemporary Christian popular music, Evans was raised in Victoria, B.C. Earlier this year, she represented her home country at the NBA All-Star 2007 in Las Vegas, singing the National Anthem “O Canada” at the kick-off, the Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam (Christine hails from the same hometown as the …
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