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Canada Serena Ryder has established a career as a Canadian singer-songwriter, music producer, and advocate for mental wellness. She is recognized for her powerful three-octave voice and songwriting achievements.
Libra became the presenting partner of Serena's 2022 Ontario and Eastern tour legs, with shoutouts to the brand on stage at every show by the singer-songwriter. Serena Ryder is also a brand ambassador for Libra.
Singer-songwriter Serena Ryder and manager Sandy Pandya established ArtHaus to help aid collaborations between artists and other creative industry folk. ArtHaus is a collaborative space and recording studio aiming to promote emerging talent and also houses Ryder's 'Art of Wellness' program.
Serena Ryder was a composer for 'The TD Music Connection', a TV Mini Series in 2013.
Ryder's 2013 hit 'What I Wouldn't Do' was covered as a supergroup charity single, with Ryder's direct participation, to benefit Kids Help Phone's Feel Out Loud campaign for youth mental health.
Serena Lauren Ryder was born on December 8, 1982, in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Millbrook, Ontario. Coming from a musical family, her Canadian mother was a go-go dancer and touring back-up singer, and her Trinidadian father was a guitarist and percussionist. Ryder began performing publicly at a young age and received her first guitar at thirteen. She attended the Integrated Arts Program at Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational Institute, where she took music lessons. Her early career involved performing solo, as well as with bands like Thousand Foot Krutch and Three Days Grace. Her first album, “Falling Out,” was released in 1999 on the indie label Mime Radio, followed by a demo tape in 2002 that garnered attention on CBC Radio. This led to fellow Canadian musician Hawksley Workman inviting her to record on his Isadora record label.
Her album “Unlikely Emergency” was released in 2005, receiving positive reviews and significant airplay for the song “Just Another Day.” This was followed by “If Your Memory Serves You Well” in 2006, a collection featuring covers of Canadian artists and original compositions. Ryder’s career saw notable progression with her 2008 Juno Award win for New Artist of the Year. She released the EP “Told You in a Whispered Song” in 2007, and both the EP “Sweeping the Ashes” and the album “Is It O.K.” in 2008. The album “Harmony,” released in 2012, further solidified her commercial success with the single “Stompa” achieving platinum status in Canada and charting in the United States.
Throughout her career, Ryder has received multiple awards, including Juno Awards for Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year in 2014, and Adult Contemporary Album of the Year in 2022 for “The Art of Falling Apart.” She has engaged in significant philanthropic work, particularly in mental health advocacy, earning the Margaret Trudeau Mental Health Advocacy Award in 2018 and the Allan Slaight Music Impact Honour from Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2021. In 2019, she co-launched ArtHaus, a collaborative space and recording studio supporting emerging talent. Ryder’s work includes numerous singles, EPs, and collaborations with artists such as Melissa Etheridge, William Prince, and The Trews.
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