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Kelita Haverland is a Canadian recording artist, comedian, speaker and activist.

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Life & Career
Kelita Haverland ( born Kelita Lucille Ohler in 1958) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, comedian, speaker and mentor. She is a multiple Juno Award nominee and multiple award winner with a diverse career which has taken her around the world. Kelita has performed on many television shows and shared stages with many of the world's most well known entertainers. A number of her early songs had charting success in Canada and her later songs of inspiration and healing garner her most rewarding responses.

Early Years
Haverland was born in Lethbridge Alberta in 1958 and raised on a farm near Carmangay Alberta, then at age 7, her family including her 4 siblings, moved to a farm outside of Claresholm Alberta, 70 miles south of Calgary. Her childhood was difficult. Her father, who suffered from depression, died suddenly when she was 11 years old. Her mother then died of terminal breast cancer when Kelita was just 15, leaving her orphaned. Her eldest brother died of a heroine overdose the next year. Her mother had married Mike Haverland, a divorcee with children, just prior to her passing, leaving Kelita with a 'wicked stepfather'. He had adopted Kelita and her younger sister (who passed in 2007 in a tragic car accident) shortly before remarrying another woman with children, resulting in 3 families living under the same roof of mass dysfunction.

Kelita discovered her love of performing at the age of 4. She thrived on audience reaction as she adeptly imitated family members and friends. After the tragic loss of her father at age 11, she wrote her first song and realized her talent for song writing. She began her singing career at a small church in Calgary at age 14 with the encouragement of Dorothy McGuire of the famous McGuire sisters. Kelita soon became the lead singer of a church rock band called "The Love & Truth Company", which toured Canada and the US when she was 16.

Kelita attended 4 years of York University in Toronto Ontario in the theater arts program and subsequently began working regularly in many musical theater productions in Toronto. Kelita began focusing more on writing and performing as a Canadian country artist, releasing her first album "Kelita" in 1983. Her follow up album, "Too Hot to Handle" released in 1986, features a young Shania Twain singing back up vocals.

Professional Career
After performing musical theater and comedy at the Imperial Room, Royal York Hotel; Bayview Playhouse and Bathurst Street Theaters in Toronto ON, she wrote and performed a “one woman show” called "Traces" at Harbourfront Theater, Factory Theater Lab and York University Theaters.