Patricia Cano

Patricia Cano is a Peruvian Canadian singer from Sudbury, Ontario,[1] most noted for her musical theatre performances in the stage musicals of Tomson Highway.[2] She graduated from the University of Toronto in Spanish Literature and Theatre.[3]

Recording and performing a jazz-based style in English, French and Spanish,[4] she has released two albums as a solo artist,[5] and won a Toronto Theatre Critics Award in 2017 as Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in a production of Highway's The (Post) Mistress.[6] She performed the songs from The (Post) Mistress on the album version, which was a shortlisted Juno Award nominee for Aboriginal Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015.[7]

She played a minor role in the television series Météo+, and her music has appeared in the television series Hard Rock Medical.[8] Both series starred musician and actor Stéphane Paquette, who appeared as a duet vocalist on Cano's debut album This Is the New World.