[1] Originally from Sudbury, Ontario,[2] Taylor moved to Toronto after high school to become a singer.
[2] Initially performing with an all-girl pop group called The Starlettes,[2] after a few years she left to join the rock band Trixter.
[2] She followed up with Lydia Taylor Band in 1981,[4] breaking through to wider radio airplay and sales.
[2] The album produced a single, "Some Guys", which charted on radio stations across Canada.
Around the same time as her Juno Award win she released her third and final recording, the five-song EP Bitch.