Dorothea Paas is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario.

[1] Her debut album Anything Can't Happen was a longlisted nominee for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize.

[5] A self-taught songwriter, her writing was influenced by her religious upbringing and popular music heard on the radio.

[4] Although she has often resisted active self-promotion, she successfully built up a career as a backing vocalist for musicians such as Jennifer Castle and U.S.

[5] Anything Can't Happen, which features Paul Saulnier of PS I Love You on bass guitar, has been described by critics as "Joni Mitchell fronting Shellac at a coffee shop".