Kelly Derrickson is a First Nation Artist from Westbank, British Columbia. Her international studies earned her a degree at the prestigious Berklee College of Music for Music Business and Performing Arts.

She won the 2015 Coachella Valley Music Award for Best Country Artist and won Best New Artist at the 2016 Indigenous Music Awards. Her single 40,000 Ft Over You from her multi- award winning album Warriors Of Love is considered the Best of 2016
in North America on the National Aboriginal Music Countdown, holding #1 for two weeks in a row! Her new single I AM is currently #8 on the charts.

She was recently nominated for Best Country Artist for the second time by The Coachella Valley Music Awards, winning the title once already in 2015. Her second album I AM was released April 2017 and was recorded amongst the top country players in Nashville, Tennessee, and was co-written and produced by Kelly Derrickson.

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