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Amanda Wilkinson

Canadian musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Amanda Nicole Wilkinson is a Canadian country music singer. She was raised in Trenton, Ontario. She is best known for being a member of The Wilkinsons, a trio which also included her father Steve and brother Tyler. She has also recorded with Tyler in the duo Small Town Pistols and as a solo artist.

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The public source identifies “Amanda Wilkinson” as canadian musician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Amanda, Wilkinson and Canadian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 54-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Amanda, Wilkinson and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Amanda Wilkinson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.