Rita MacNeil On George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight

Canada's lost one of its great voices: Cape Breton country and folk singer Rita MacNeil has died. She was 68.

According to a statement from her publicist, she passed away April 16 following complications from surgery.

She was known as Cape Breton's first lady of song - but she didn't start out as a confident performer. In fact, she was so notoriously shy that she didn't come into her own as a singer until a little later in life: at 42, she won a Juno Award for most promising female artist.

But once she got off the ground, no one could stop her flying on her own.

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight airs Weeknights at 7 pm on CBC Television

Subscribe:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...

Follow George:
On Twitter:   / strombo  
On Facebook:   / strombo  

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/