Skye Sweetnam: Difference between revisions

Born to Deidre and Greg Sweetnam, she was named after the [[Isle of Skye]] in [[Scotland]]. Along with her sister, Aurora, and her brother, Cameron, Sweetnam was born and raised in the small town of [[Bolton, Ontario|Bolton]], [[Ontario]], where she studied [[dance|dancing]] and [[singing]] from a young age. By her early teens she had moved on to [[songwriting]], and recorded a [[demo (music)|demo]] with the help of a local Bolton music school. Sweetnam was also a full-time student at Mayfield Arts School in [[Brampton, Ontario]], majoring in [[drama]]. She worked with local producer and instrumentalist, [[James Robertson]]. Together, Robertson and Sweetnam worked on what would later become ''[[Noise from the Basement]]'', her [[Capitol Records]] debut. The single "Billy S." appeared in July 2003 on the soundtrack to the [[Mandy Moore]] movie ''[[How to Deal]]'', and quickly took off in the [[United States]] and Canada. In 2004, Sweetnam went on tour over [[Europe]] and [[North America]], as the opening act of [[Britney Spears]], although her part was cut short due to Spears' knee injury. Sweetnam's new album, ''[[Sound Soldier]]'', which she describes as "[[Nine Inch Nails]] meets Britney Spears"[http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2006/04/25/1549942.html], is set to be released on April 4th 2007. ''Boyhunter'', one of the upcoming songs from ''Sound Soldier'', was chosen to be in the new ''[[The Sims 2: Pets]]'' game, with the song being re-recorded in ''[[simlish]]''.