By the time she was in her mid-twenties she and Ward began collaborating with David Tyson to produce her self-titled, debut album, "Alannah Myles."
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Her song Black Velvet was one of four selected to be covered on the CBC Television reality television show Cover Me Canada.
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In 1997, she managed to terminate her eight-record contract with Atlantic Records with the help of her then-manager, Miles Copeland III, who immediately signed her to his Ark 21 Records.
Datl has played piano/keyboards in live performance and on recordings of many award-winning Canadian artists, notably Shirley Eikhard, Alannah Myles, Lorraine Segato and Parachute Club.
His particularly notable musical associations have been with The Cameo Blues Band, The Lincolns, Richard "Hock" Walsh and Alannah Myles.
As a songwriter, he co-wrote the international number one hit, "Song Instead of a Kiss" for Alannah Myles.
She recorded in the 1980s and 1990s as Robin Lee for Evergreen and Atlantic Records, charting at number 12 on Hot Country Songs in 1990 with a cover of Alannah Myles' Number One pop single "Black Velvet".
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The station was founded in 1968 by Stephen Stohn (who is now a television producer of such series as Degrassi: The Next Generation), Christopher Ward (now a songwriter; work includes Alannah Myles' hit Black Velvet), and Peter Northrop.
Her debut solo record, "Dirty Chemistry" was produced by songwriters Christopher Ward and Fred St-Gelais, who have worked with artists such as Alannah Myles, Amanda Marshall, and Randy Bachman, and who have also been working with Alexz Johnson on the music for Instant Star.