Rose Cousins Biography
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By the end of every live show, Rose Cousins has you feeling something. Intimate vocals and warm guitar convey a passionate honesty that leaves you feeling like each of her songs could somehow belong to you. Since releasing her first EPs, Only So Long (2002) and Miles To Go
(2003), Cousins has spent time carving a place for herself in the
songwriting community in her adopted home base, of Halifax, NS, nationally and in the US. With her distinctive stage erformance,
audiences can find themselves in tears one moment and fits of laughter the next. Her style is beautifully captured in her latest release and first full-length recording If You Were For Me.

While growing up on a potato farm on Canada’s Prince Edward Island, Cousins developed her musical ear listening to whatever her mother had playing on the stereo, record player or to her own clock radio. The second eldest of five children, Cousins would use her father’s cassette recorder to capture music from the radio and movies on TV, and play it by ear on the old piano in the living room. Though she journaled and wrote poetry as a young girl, she only ever composed instrumental pieces. Her first performances were singing with her mother and older sister in their small town church.