Jamie Anderson is an American/Canadian female singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Tucson, Arizona, best known as a performer of women's music. She is based in Ottawa, Ontario. Since 1987 she has played her original songs in hundreds of venues in four countries including forty-seven US states. Anderson first began touring the U.S. in 1987, and released her debut album in 1989. She was voted Favorite New Performer by in 1990 and 1991, and played many women's music festivals through the decade of the 1990s through today. She is openly lesbian.