Ferron

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ferron
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Jun 1, 1952(1952-06-01)
Age	72
Birthplace	Vancouver
Country	Canada
Birth City	British Columbia
Horoscope	Gemini

Ferron Biography

Ferron is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on June 1, 1952 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ferron (born Deborah Foisy on 1 June 1952) is a native of Canada and is a poet and singer. Alongside gaining recognition in Canada as one of its most admired music writers, Ferron, who is openly gay, was one of the first and influential lyrical songwriters from the female music scene, and had a significant influence on the later artists like Ani DiFranco Mary Gauthier and the Indigo Girls. In the late eighties Ferron’s songwriting abilities were recognized and appreciated by music critics as well as wider public, with comparisons made to the writing abilities that of Van Morrison, Bob Dylan along with Leonard Cohen.

In the meantime, based at Vancouver, Ferron established her own label Lucy Records, and launched her self-titled debut album in 1977. This album was made in a studio for video on two-track equipment and, Ferron stated, “the production quality was pretty poor”. But, the thousand copies printed were sold out quickly.

Awarded a Canada Arts Council grant in 1985 to further develop her musicianship, she ended up taking several years off from touring and recording. During this time, she earned some of her living as a carpenter’s assistant, bartender, and day care worker, before reinvesting in her music career. Ferron returned to the studio and the road in 1990 with Phantom Center released by Chameleon Records, and produced by Joe Chiccarelli. The album featured backing vocals by a then relatively unknown Tori Amos, and consequently is highly sought after by collectors. Later, in September 1995, Phantom Center would be re-released on EarthBeat! Records with a new recording of the song “Stand Up” featuring vocals by Indigo Girls.

Between 1992 and 1994, Ferron released three albums on her own Cherrywood Station label (Not a Still Life 1992, Resting with the Question 1992, Driver 1993). The twelve song Driver was first licensed by EarthBeat! Records in 1994, and was highly acclaimed by critics as a masterwork and nominated for a Juno Award in 1995. Following this success, Ferron signed to Warner Bros. enabling her to create Still Riot in the studio with producer db Benedictson for release in the fall of 1996. During her brief tenure with Warner they released Driver as a re-issue, Phantom Center as a re-mixed album, and Still Riot as Ferron’s ninth full album project. Initially contracted with Warner for a 7-year, 3-record contract, the deal was terminated early and by 1997 Ferron was back to putting out her own work on the Cherrywood Station label.

Following the release of two albums she self-produced, Ferron (1977) Ferron (1977) and Ferron Backed Up (1978) she teamed up with Gayle Scott who would turn out to her long-term manager and executive producer as well as a the partner in Lucy Records/Penknife Prods, LTD, producing the following two albums, and also launching concerts across the United States. The album Testimony, released in 1980 was her debut professionally produced album, initially sold via the Holly Near’s Redwood Records label. Testimony garnered her a lot of attention throughout her home country of the United States, particularly in the music industry for women. The song’s title became a popular anthem for many within the female music scene. It was particularly played by Sweet Honey in The Rock and included in The second series of The L Word, playing in a dramatic way during the closing credits.

Ferron Net Worth

Ferron is one of the richest Singer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ferron 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As of 1971 Foisy switched her last name from Foisy to Ferron after one of her acquaintances was in a dream where she was referred to as Ferron which loosely translated into French which means iron as well as iron and.

In Toronto and raised in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada Ferron began to play the guitar when she was 11 and left her home at the age of 15. Ferron was a student at Total Ed, an alternative high school located in Vancouver, B.C., which she graduated from in 1973. One of her first musical memories she wrote “my mother’s French Canadian family played music. I heard guitars and banjo and accordion and scrub board and my grandfather clogging. I put it together…music meant fun, meant love and laughter. I started writing songs when I was 10, never saved them after some kids at school found them and teased me about it. I wrote songs and remembered them and when I forgot them I felt they were not important anymore. The next time I saved a song I was 18. It was 1970.” It was because of the first song she saved the singer made her debut on the stage in the year 1975, performing the tune “Who Loses” at a charity event for an organization called the Women’s Press Gang, a Vancouver- based feminist publishing company.

Her 1984 album Shadows on a Dime received a rating of four stars (out of five) from Rolling Stone magazine, which called Ferron “a culture hero” and the album “cowgirl meets Yeats…a thing of beauty.” Shadows earned a place on renowned music critic Robert Christgau’s “Dean’s List” for 1984.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Ferron Dating?

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In addition to her performance career, Ferron has taught master classes in writing in places including Omega Institute, NY, The Rowe Conference Center in Massachusetts, IMA in Bodega, California, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She was instrumental in opening up a retreat center near Three Rivers, Michigan called The Fen Peace and Poetry Camp for Women. In 2009 to 2010, Ferron created commissioned textile art—wall hangings, quilts, and pillows—that features her lyrics and poetry. For Ferron, “artistic expression is not only essential, it’s revolutionary.” “Art is really the expression of the soul,” Ferron says. “I’m asking women to remember that if we remember our soul, we keep our soul, and we can do it through artistic connections. Art is connected to the soul, and the soul is connected to God, and God is connected to humility, so if you want to take control of a person’s soul, don’t let them have art. To me it’s a revolutionary act to continue keeping your artist soul alive”.

Facts & Trivia

Ferron Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Ferron celebrates birthday on June 1 of every year.

Is Ferron still alive?

Ferron
Genres| Singer-songwriter, folk music, women’s music
Occupation(s)| Songwriter, musician, poet
Instruments| Vocals, guitar
Years active| 1975–present

Where does Ferron live?

Ferron, who lives part of the year on Saturna and part of the year in the States , says that Canada has been more than a touchstone over the years — it’s at the very core of how she makes decisions and how she feels. “My dream is to die a lesbian, First Nations, Canadian,” Ferron says, “and it’s happening.”