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Skye Sweetnam
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Skye Alexandra Sweetnam, born on May 5, 1988, is a Canadian singer of the early 2000s.

Sweetnam released her first single, "Billy S.", in 2003; it appears on her first album, Noise from the Basement, which was released on September 21, 2004. Her debut album features 13 songs, including the singles "Tangled Up in Me" and "Number One".

Sweetnam has also guest-starred on the television show Radio Free Roscoe, on which she sings the theme song. She also sings the theme song to The Buzz on Maggie, which is called "Just the Way I Am". She also sings the theme song for a new Canadian TV show called Wayside based on the books by Louis Sachar; the song is called "Fly By the Wayside."

In 2006, Sweetnam was nominated for a Juno Award for New Artist of the Year. Her second album is soon to be released, titled Sound Soldier.

Born to Deirdre and Greg Sweetnam, she was named after the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Along with her sister, Aurora, and her brother, Cameron, Sweetnam was born and raised in the small town of Bolton, Ontario, where she studied dancing and singing from a young age.

By her early teens Sweetnam had moved on to songwriting, and recorded a demo with the help of a local Bolton music school. Sweetnam was also a full-time student at Mayfield Arts School in Caledon, Ontario, majoring in drama. She worked with local producer and instrumentalist, James Robertson. Together, Robertson and Sweetnam worked on what would later become Noise from the Basement, her Capitol Records debut. The single "Billy S." appeared in July 2003 on the soundtrack to the Mandy Moore movie How to Deal, and quickly took off in the United States and Canada.

In 2004, Sweetnam went on tour with dodger over Europe and North America, as the opening act of Britney Spears, although her part was cut short due to Spears' knee injury. Sweetnam's new album, Sound Soldier, which she describes as "Nine Inch Nails meets Britney Spears", is set to be released in late 2007. Boyhunter, one of the upcoming songs from Sound Soldier, was chosen to be in the new The Sims 2: Pets game, with the song being re-recorded in simlish.

Sweetnam is the singing voice of Barbie in the straight to video release, The Barbie Diaries and has recorded songs for the movie. In 2007 Tim Armstrong recorded the song he did with Sweetnam called "Into Action" and released it as his single in March. Sweetnam's vocals are featured in the chorus of the song, and she appears in the video of the song.