Coco Love Alcorn

{{short description|Canadian pop and jazz singer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox musical artist

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| birth_place = Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

| genre = Pop, jazz,

| occupation = Singer

| instrument = Guitar

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| website = {{URL|cocolovealcorn.com}}

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Coco Love Alcorn is a Canadian pop and jazz singer. The daughter of jazz singer John Alcorn,{{cite web |last1=Chamberlain |first1=Adrian |title=Coco Love Alcorn gets back to the spirit of song |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/music/coco-love-alcorn-gets-back-to-the-spirit-of-song-1.2350812 |website=Times Colonist |accessdate=27 December 2018 |date=24 September 2016}} she released her debut album in 1995. She toured as an opening act for Burton Cummings, Chantal Kreviazuk, Jesse Cook, and Ani DiFranco and performed on some Lilith Fair dates. She is a backing vocalist for 54-40, and her music has appeared on the television programs The Dead Zone and The L Word.

Alcorn is an avid cyclist who has written songs inspired by cycling and her bicycles.{{cite web|url=http://momentumplanet.com/articles/coco-love-alcorn-is-sweet-on-cycling-|title=Coco Love Alcorn is Sweet on Cycling|accessdate=October 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013043230/http://momentumplanet.com/articles/coco-love-alcorn-is-sweet-on-cycling-|archive-date=October 13, 2011|url-status=dead}}

Alcorn and Simon Farla became the parents of Eloise on 14 September 2010. After spending several years raising her daughter, she returned to music and released the album Wonderland in 2016. Alcorn was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and moved several times with her family, living also in Toronto and Vancouver. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for one semester, then moved to Vancouver and began performing.{{cite web |last1=Borowiecki |first1=Anna |title=Coco Love Alcorn breaks new ground in Wonderland |url=https://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/coco-love-alcorn-breaks-new-ground-wonderland-20180505 |website=St. Albert Gazette |accessdate=27 December 2018 |language=en-CA |date=5 May 2018}} She released her debut album in 1995.{{cite web |last1=Nikodym |first1=Carolyn |title=Coco Love Alcorn |url=http://www.vueweekly.com/coco_love_alcorn/ |website=Vue Weekly |accessdate=27 December 2018 |date=10 September 2009}}{{dead link|date=February 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} She moved to Toronto, then went on tour as the opening act for Ani DiFranco and as a backup singer for the Canadian rock band 54 40.{{cite web |title=Coco Love Alcorn {{!}} Home Routes |url=https://www.homeroutes.ca/artists/coco-love-alcorn/ |website=www.homeroutes.ca |accessdate=27 December 2018}}

She won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Singer of the Year at the 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2021, for her album Rebirth.[https://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2021/04/11/pharis-jason-romero-head-cfma-winners-list "Pharis & Jason Romero Head CFMA Winners List"]. FYI Music News, April 11, 2021.