Dear Dad, 

It's taking a while to organize your performances, photos, press, cassettes reel to reels !! radio & tv .  I didn't know how much you have  done and given   to your community. I left (ran away) to pursue my music dreams & goals  - If only we had talked & you had opened up. But we canadians don't talk about  ourselves. You just did your thing. I work away now  in my room with your archives and I'm getting close . In a strange way - I feel closer to you, like you're really here with me . I want to do a good job for you and your legacy...now more than ever .  coming soon🇨🇦

'AS I AM' EP   1994 

    30 Yr.+ Celebration!

 the iconic indie - Orchard Studio

'Her emotional soaring voice, is what captures you...perhaps it's in the blood, being the daughter of "Mr O Canada"                                                                                                                                                                          Nick Mancuso  director, actor

A notable live & studio singer in Toronto, she has opened for such artists as  Glen Campbell, Burton Cummings, Three Dog Night, James Brown, Patti Labelle & Dionne Warwick. She came to prominence at 17  in her hometown of Ottawa joining her father Dillon O'Connor (Mr O Canada)  - in the singing of the National Anthem for a season of Ottawa Rough Riders home games, as well as winning roles singing /dancing/acting in (Bye bye Birdie, West Side Story &  Anne of Green Gables)  to list a few. Touring across Canada & the U.S with her band 'Hostage' resulted in her first independent release produced by Hugh Marsh  (Bruce Cockburnband)  on her own OMS records.  Bruce  joined her on 'Play it by Heart" earning radio airplay that year in Canada & the U.S.  Returning after a decade on the road with her band (Shania Twain came to see her perform) arriving in Toronto &  winning the SOCAN  New Talent Demo Award put her into Orchard Studio( Jane Siberry, Moist ) releasing the  EP 'As I am' . Quickly establishing  a Singing, Songwriting , Arranging & Sessions career  in Toronto  as well as a thriving lesson studio beachmusicstudio.com in the Beaches.

 Her last collection of original songs under Donna O  titled     Hooked   with special guest  Juno Award winning trumpeter      John MacLeod is available on  itunes, spotify, amazon          

 New video of  'Good Enough'  released April 1  2024 !!                

Notable Sessions & media:                                                           celtic 'Loch Lomand' plus 6+ songs  (IrishRoses CD) -740,000 Guest  Vocal -'The Planets' kidslove2learn channel - 24 million   Guest Vocal - 'The Solar System' -A Rock Opera - 4 million

AT seventeen I ran away to  join a Rock & Roll Band armed with boxes of beloved cassettes &  albums for life on the road & never looked back. Singing & playing the Canadian Northland, crossing the country  & USA..Even Shania came to watch me ! Now established in Toronto I hope you'll follow my adventures to sing my own songs, make hand made videos using imagination & determination and my stubborn use of my blended analog (original gear) & digital ..since 1978

          DILLON O CONNOR -1933-2005     IS     MR. O CANADA    1968-1982  

HOSTAGE-TheLastTime45"release©1984dtomusicmediaarchives

composer: Bill Mcdowell ©capac1984                                       producer: Hugh Marsh  at Manta Studio Toronto

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O Canada - Dillon O'Connor at  Landsdowne Park Ottawa  -

 Bilingual version televised 

O Canada - Dillon & Donna O'Connor at  Landsdowne Park Ottawa