Devon Sproule
| Devon Sproule | |
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August 23, 2006
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| Background information | |
| Born | April 23, 1982 |
| Origin | Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Folk, Indie folk |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Tin Angel Records |
| Associated acts | Paul Curreri |
| Website | www |
Devon Sproule (born 23 April 1982, in Kingston, Ontario) is a musician based for many years in Charlottesville, Virginia. She shared the prestigious ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award for 2009 with Oren Lavie. She and her husband moved to Berlin, Germany in September 2011, have resided in Austin, Texas, and now live in Stony Point, Virginia.
Born to hippie parents on a commune named Dandelion in Kingston, Ontario, Sproule claims citizenship of both Canada and the United States. Her parents were both musicians. She spent her childhood on the 465-acre (1.88 km2), 100-member Twin Oaks Community founded in 1967 as an intentional community and ecovillage in Louisa County, Virginia. Asked about how the experience has affected her musical career, she said:
". . growing up with 80+ adults (many of whom I was very close to and spent lots of one-on-one time with) creates a need for versatile communication. That's what I see in people who have lived at Twin Oaks -- a desire to communicate and a willingness to do it not only on their own terms, or in their own personal language, but in whatever manner will get the job done . . growing up in an income-free environment, the lack of money never bothers me much . . So yes, on the whole, I'm proud of my alternative upbringing."
After moving between private, public and home schooling, she eventually left high school, recorded her first record, and began touring nationally—all before the age of eighteen.
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