Wendy Lynn Marie Snider (Leduc) was born and raised in the beautiful surroundings of Northern Ontario in Temagami. She grew up in a musical family listening to Christian and classic country, such artists as Waylon Jennings, Johnny & June Carter Cash, Johnny Horton, Ricky Nelson, Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline and Sonny James, just to name a few.
Her father entertained at the local pubs and also favored singing the songs of Johnny Cash. Her mother, to this day, is still the organist and singer at the church the family attended in Temagami. Wendy, along with her 3 brothers and 1 sister, all have been blessed with a natural musical talent, and have all performed in different locations across Canada over the years. Her parents bought her first guitar for her when she was 9 but she only pursued performing occasionally during family gatherings as music took a back seat to other interests Wendy had as a child and teen.
As time passed and Wendy branched out on her own, she eventually moved to Burlington, Ontario for several years and during that time often sang the Canadian and American National Anthems for various organizations. She married, had two wonderful boys and balanced being a working mother, but sacrificed giving up any musical aspirations that had continued to be something she so dearly wanted to get back into after all these years.
A difficult time emerged in Wendy’s life as she and her husband divorced, forcing her to re-evaluate things and look towards a new future. Part of her new future was to bring a new love into her life but as a single working mom, it was never easy meeting new people until one of her friends suggested she try an online dating site.
She eventually met Curtt Snider. Love blossomed and the two were married within a year. It wasn’t until Curtt heard Wendy sing that with his support and encouragement, decided it was time the world heard her voice. Wendy was back singing once again!
Wendy and Curtt wrote a number of songs together, including “Online Flower”, the song inspired for her first CD recorded in Nashville stemming from how she and Curtt met and fell in love. She began performing again to support the CD release all over Ontario and continues to do guest appearances with other musical acts including St. Catharines’ “Toasted Western Band”.
It wasn’t until 2010 that she re-connected with high school friend and long time music industry person Michael Peters that she moved to the next stage of her musical resurgence.
Michael brought in industry veteran Thomas Wade to produce a new album for Wendy that features a blend of traditional & new country, and country gospel songs. Including the 3 songs Wendy and Curtt wrote on the new CD, there are a number of Canadian songwriters lending their talents to the project including Michael, who also acts as executive producer of the album. The CD also features CCMA award winning players Shane Guse on fiddle, Doug Johnson on steel and Thomas Wade on guitars among others. The first single from the CD is a song called “That’s What It’s All About” a good message song that features a video supporting the release that can be seen on YouTube or Facebook.
Wendy has now fulfilled a long time dream and is looking forward to getting out with her band to promote the new CD and make new friends and fans out there along the way!