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Mitch Zorn

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ136890298 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mitchell Edward Zorn is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter from Nakusp, British Columbia. He is currently signed to 604 Records. He has charted the singles "Home" and "Back to You" on the Canada Country chart. Zorn released a self-titled extended play in June 2025.

Biography

Zorn grew up in Nakusp, British Columbia, where he played hockey, and went hunting and fishing from a young age. He received his first guitar when he was seven years old. Zorn began performing in a country-blues band with his father at eight years old, and he was writing his own songs by the age of twelve. He described Eric Church, Sam Hunt, and John Mayer as the three biggest influences on his music. Zorn graduated from high school in 2012.

In 2016, Zorn started an electrical apprenticeship, which led to a job in the Alberta oil sands.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mitch Zorn” as canadian country music singer and songwriter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2025, 2012, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mitch, Zorn and Canadian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mitch Zorn” 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.