Biography

SILVER WINGS BIO

LINDA BROWN WELLS

Linda has an impressive musical history under her belt. At the age of three Linda made her singing debut in Hay River N.W.T with her parent’s band. Shortly after they moved to Kingston, Ontario and by the time she was thirteen she was singing solo. A & M records had several releases for Linda, all of which scored high on R.P.M. national country charts, earning several Juno nominations in the mid seventies. Most promising female vocalist and Canada’s number one female vocalist.

Her last release on Earth Star Records in the early eighties, Love Don’t Grow In A One Man Show and Don’t You Know I’ve Been Crying, both self penned, earned a big country nomination and reached the top five on R.P.M. country and A.O.R national charts.

Tired of traveling with two small children, Linda settled to singing in night clubs around Southern Ontario and in 1991 she met Scotty Wells.

SCOTTY WELLS

Born in Horwood, Newfoundland where he mastered several instruments, he was a regular in the television show “At The Matador”, hosted his own show “Country Time”, toured the Nashville circuit and has played with such greats as Kenny Rogers, Conway Twitty, Gordon Lightfoot and sat in with Roy Clarke in San Jose, California. Scotty has had seven releases and the first video written by Scotty played the Nashville network for 17 weeks.

SILVER WINGS

Together Linda and Scotty perform as Silver Wings, bringing talent, harmony and experience to new and old country. The writing and singing capabilities of Linda along with the writing, singing and instrumentation skills of Scotty produces a sound that is music to the ears. They are currently performing with two of Canada’s top musicians “The Best Of The Best” Roy Penny on lead guitar and Brian Barron on fiddle. Both were popular musicians on national tv shows such as Carl Smith’s Country Music Hall, Tommy Hunter Show, Ronnie Prophet Show, Pig And Whistle, George Hamilton, etc., working and performing with most of the top acts in Canada and Nashville.

CAUSE I LOVE YOU

Mainly written by Linda and produced by Scotty, featuring a combination of songs geared to the Canadian and world market. Engineered by Dennis Brunet, featuring some of Toronto’s finest artists such as Big John Anthony on keyboards, Paul Cockburn on steel, Dennis Brunet on percussion and Scotty Wells doing all of the guitar work, lead, bass and rhythm also accordion and harp. The title cut “Cause I Love You” is destined to become one of Canada’s finest works of art. It is currently receiving air play world wide and has won “The International Country CD Of The Year Award” from the “National Traditional Country Music Association” in USA for the year 2012.