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Give It All Away (Theo Tams album)

album by Theo Tams

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5565633 ↗
Source-derived summary

Give It All Away is the 2009 debut album by singer Theo Tams, the winner of the sixth season of the reality television competition Canadian Idol.

Background

Recorded in Toronto, the album was produced by Greg Johnston. It was released on 19 May 2009 on the Sony Music Canada label. The album includes thirteen songs including seven songs co-written by Tams, which is more than any previous Canadian Idol winner.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Give It All Away (Theo Tams album)” as album by Theo Tams. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. The account is most persuasive where Give, Away and Theo can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Theo Tams. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5565633. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Give It All Away (Theo Tams album)” 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.