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Mariel Buckley

Canadian country music singer-songwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ65658880
Source-derived summary

Mariel Buckley is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is the younger sister of singer T. Buckley.

Biography

Buckley was born in Calgary, Alberta and primarily lived there until moving to Edmonton around 2020.

Buckley recorded an EP in 2012, and her first album, Motorhome, in 2014. The album was produced by Derek Pulliam, and featured mainly acoustic music. Buckley was accompanied by a string trio with Charlie Hase on pedal steel, Scott Duncan on fiddle, and Pulliam on bass. Buckley was a finalist in the 2014 All-Alberta Songwriting Contest.

In 2018, she recorded a second album, the alt-country Driving in the Dark. The album was produced by Leeroy Stagger. In August that year the album rose to #2 on the !earshot National Folk/Roots/Blues Chart.

Editorial summary

“Mariel Buckley” enters the record as canadian country music singer-songwriter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mariel, Buckley and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2012, 2014, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mariel, Buckley and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

“Mariel Buckley” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mariel, Buckley and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65658880. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2012, 2014 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Mariel Buckley” 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.