Canadian folk singer Ian Tyson who wrote the "Four Strong Winds" as one half of Ian & Sylvia passed away at age 89.

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He died at his ranch in southern Alberta following a series of health complications, his manager Mr. Paul Mascioli, said.

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Tyson was a part of the influential folk evolution in Toronto with his first wife, Sylvia Tyson.

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But he was also seen as a throwback to more rustic times and concerned much of his life to living on his ranch and ensuring songs about the cowboy life.

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He was best known for the troubadour's lament "Four Strong Winds" and its classic melody about the life of a wanderer.

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Tyson was born on September 25, 1933. He joined private school and learned to play polo, then he discovered rodeo.

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In 1958, after finishing graduation from the Vancouver School of Art, he hitchhiked to Toronto.

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He attended the city's burgeoning folk movement, where all Canadians including Young, Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot played in hippie coffee houses in the bohemian Yorkville.

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Tyson then met Sylvia Fricker and they started a relationship — onstage and off, moving to New York.

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They got married in 1964, then the couple continued releasing new records with regularity.

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