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Aimee Bessada is a Canadian singer-songwriter and alumnus of the prestigious Canadian Film Centre's Slaight Music Residency. Bessada had worked as a touring musician for approximately a decade prior to attending the prestigious nine month program at the CFC's Slaight Family Music Lab, where she and four other selectees worked under the mentorship of award-winning film composer Marc Jordan. The goal of the program was to take composers and songwriters who had already had a proven track record, and train them in the specialized skills for composing music for film and television.

Following her completion of the program Bessada prepared the music for multiple film and television projects, including How To Buy A Baby, Irreplaceable You, Nappily Ever After, The Inherent Traits of Connor James, Holly Hobbie.

Vents magazine described her musical style as an "unique blend of grunge, folk, and surf rock."

Her 2015 debut extended play compact disk followed her participation in the Make or Break television show on VH1, hosted by Linda Perry. On the show Perry mentored a group of musicians. Bessada was one of the participants selected to make an EP. Hers was entitled A dream, a coast.

In 2018 Bessada was one of the guest artists who performed in a series of tributes to the work of Joni Mitchell and Carole King. In an interview with CBC News's Reshmi Nair artistic and managing director Mitchell Marcus, and Bessada explained how, for its twelfth annual iteration of its "Uncovered" series the Musical Stage Company chose to profile the work of the only two female singer-songwriters to make Rolling Stone magazine the top ten of its list of iconic singer-songwriters.