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Two-time Canadian Juno Award nominee Suzie Ungerleider officially opened a new chapter of her already distinguished and highly successful career with the 2021 release of her album ?My Name is Suzie Ungerleider?. It?s her first since the artist formerly known as Oh Susanna announced that she would now record and perform under her birth name.

The decision to say ?so long? to her long-time moniker Oh Susanna represents her recognition that the ?exciting, dark, funny, charming? character that she thought was Oh Susanna was actually Suzie Ungerleider all along. ?So here I am, leaving behind the trappings of a persona that gave me the courage to climb up onstage and reveal what is in my heart,? she reflects. ?It once protected me, but I need to take it off so I can be all of who I am.?

The name change is both a personal and political decision, fuelled by her realization that ?Oh Susanna,? the Stephen Foster song of 1848, contained racist imagery and a belief system that she wanted no part of. She came to understand its historic associations to Minstrelsy, a tradition both demeaning and dehumanising to black people. Leaving Oh Susanna behind, she?s become her true self with a wonderful record that marks a fresh beginning, a collection of new compositions that refresh and redefine who Suzie Ungerleider is.

Now based again in her home town of Vancouver, she made ?My Name is Suzie Ungerleider? with producer Jim Bryson (Kathleen Edwards), whose assured touch amplifies the atmospheric dreamscapes contained in Suzie?s reflective, intimate songbook.

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Thornton Common Rd,

Thornton Hough,

Birkenhead,

Merseyside,

England,

CH63 1JL.