Sylvia Tyson, CM (née Fricker; born 19 September 1940) is a Canadian musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster.

[5] Her father was an appliance salesman for the T. Eaton Company, and her mother was a church organist and choir leader.

Ian had been performing in Toronto clubs as a solo artist, but after he and Fricker met, they decided to work together as a duo.

[10] From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, she and Ian Tyson also fronted the country rock band Great Speckled Bird.

[11] The song has been covered extensively,[12] but first became a hit single in the mid-1960s for the San Francisco-based folk-rock band We Five, and also for the British pop singer Crispian St. Peters.

[16][18] Sylvia Tyson contributed offstage to the Canadian music scene as a board member of FACTOR and the Juno Awards.

[11] Sylvia joined Ian to sing their signature song "Four Strong Winds" at the 50th anniversary of the Mariposa Folk Festival on 11 July 2010 in Orillia, Ontario.