Lindi Marie Ortega[1] (born May 28, 1979) is a Canadian country singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario, who had lived in Nashville, Tennessee then moved to Western Canada in 2017.

She was 17 when – after picking up the guitar that hung on the wall of the family home – she wrote "Faded Dress", which she has said was "the first in a long line of heartbreak songs".

[15] A self-described bird lover, Ortega organised and was the featured performer at a benefit concert for the World Parrot Refuge in Coombs, British Columbia on March 3, 2010.

[16] The concert was held at The Supermarket in Toronto and featured a collection of local musicians that included Sara Kamin, Mandippal Jandu, The Framework, Emma-Lee, The DoneFors, and Dylan Murray.

[18] CBC Radio 3 described the album as follows: Lindi seasons her musical scores like a deranged chef whipping up a culinary creation.

[20] In late 2005 Ortega began advertising her new album as coming in the autumn of 2006[4] having declared, "People kept pushing and prodding and finally I saw the light".

"[3] In 2007 Ortega collaborated with Juno Award winning producer Ron Lopata on "I Need", a song for the compilation album Year of the Monkey – 68.

Ortega's eponymous EP was initially sold at concerts and on March 5, 2008 was made available online from independent music retailer killthe8.com.

[28][29] After the success of labelmate Lady Gaga, Cherrytree decided they would focus on dance / pop acts and Ortega signed with Last Gang Records.

Ortega announced on her blog that a new full-length album with Juno Award winning producer, Ron Lopata, would be released on June 7, 2011 on Last Gang.

The album received critical acclaim and was nominated for two Juno Awards as well as a place on the Polaris Music Prize Long List.

In December 2011, Ortega moved to Nashville, TN where she began working with producer Colin Linden to record her album Cigarettes & Truckstops.

In support of this album, Ortega toured the United States and Canada, opening for Southern California punk legends Social Distortion.