Lindsay Ell grew up in Calgary, Alberta, where she began playing piano at six before discovering guitar at eight. By ten she was writing songs and performing locally.
At 13, she was discovered by Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, who produced her first album and helped her refine her songwriting and guitar technique. After graduating high school, she moved to Nashville, where she signed with Stoney Creek Records and in 2013 and released her debut single “Trippin’ on Us.”
Just four years later her LP The Project in 2017 topped Billboard’s Country Album Sales chart. The magazine called it “a confident and cohesive statement from a skilled guitarist and songwriter.”
Ell joined Shania Twain’s touring band in 2023 as the legendary Canadian singer’s lead guitarist through 2025. “Every night on stage with Shania is like a master class in how to make people feel seen. She gives everything to the crowd, and it changes how I think about performing,” she said last year in Country Now.
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