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Liona Boyd
Musical artist
Liona Maria Carolynne Boyd, OC, OOnt (born 11 July 1949) is a Canadian classical guitarist often referred to as the 'First Lady of the Guitar'.[1][2][3][4]
Music career
Early years
Boyd was born in London and grew up in Toronto.[5] Her father grew up in Bilbao, Spain, and her mother in Stoke-on-Trent, England.
Her grandmother was from Linares, Spain, the birthplace of the "king of the classical guitar", Andrés Segovia. During her family's first of two ocean voyages to Canada she made her debut performance playing "Bluebells of Scotland" on a treble recorder in a talent show on the ship.
When she was thirteen, she was given her first guitar, a Christmas present which her parents had bought in Spain seven years earlier.[6] She took lessons from Eli Kassner, Narciso Yepes, Alirio Díaz, Julian Bream, and Andrés Segovia.
Boyd received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Universi
