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Abigail Lapell
Person · female · Canada · born 1980
Canadian indie folk singer-songwriter based in Toronto
Timeline
4 events✦ Award 3◦ Birth 1
1980s
2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography196 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354029461
Biography
Abigail Lapell is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, who won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year at the 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2017 for her album Hide Nor Hair and again for English Songwriter of the Year at the 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2020 for her album Getaway.
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Lapell released her debut album Great Survivor in 2011. In 2016, she won the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award for her song "Jordan".
Hide Nor Hair, her second album, was released in 2017. In addition to her Contemporary Album win at the CFMAs, she was also a shortlisted finalist in the Contemporary Singer of the Year category.
Her 2024 album Anniversary featured several tracks recorded in collaboration with Great Lake Swimmers. The album received a Juno Award nomination for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2025.
At the 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2025, she won the award for Children's Album of the Year for her 2023 album Lullabies.
In 2026 she released Shadow Child, an album that included guest contributions by Jill Barber, Frazey Ford, Dana Sipos and Pharis Romero.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award | won | |
| 2017 | Canadian Folk Music Awards | won | |
| 2020 | Canadian Folk Music Awards | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abigail_Lapell%27s_Concert_02_%28cropped%29.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43383985genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43383985seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Lapellbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Lapell
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Canadian musicians
- List of folk musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Damien D. · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q43383985 · MusicBrainz: 49d23710-08bc-431d-901c-5bbb23c0e099
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