In December 1996 she released her debut CD, To Dream Again, a spiritually themed recording hailed as a "gentle folk classic", and by the following year was nominated Best Female Solo Act in the Ottawa Xpress Music Awards.

In 2002, her second release The Great Divide appeared to critical and audience acclaim.

"Fresh expressive vocals occasionally reminiscent of Connie Kaldor, and airy melodies give DeMos' music a flair anathema to most mainstream pop and a lightness not often found in folk," wrote Patrick Langston in The Ottawa Citizen.

The album includes songs to help hearts open. Songs that make you want to dance. And more than a few musical styles: a little pop, a little folk, a little country and the title track, a traditional ballad.

In her teens, Wendy taught herself to play Beatles tunes on her brother John's guitar.

"Most definitely the Beatles were a big influence on me. For example," she says, "I think you can hear a bit of Beatles in the song "Take the Time".

More recently, Wendy is influenced by artists such as JUNO award (Canadian version of the Grammy awards) winner Lynn Miles; Jane Siberry who Wendy says can lift an audience like no other; Kirtana, known as a modern day Rumi; and Beth Neilson Chapman, who offers depth galore. And of course, there are the long-time greats such as James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Kenny Loggins, Mary Black and Aretha Franklin.

Wendy learned keyboards as a youngster and played the clarinet in the high school band in Cornwall, Ontario, the small town where she grew up.

In her 20s, after moving to Ottawa, she learned to play the flute.

In 1990, she invested in a parlour-sized handmade Beneteau guitar and continued what she had started back in high school.

Living in the Caribbean in 1993-94, she met someone who changed her life. John Francis, an artist and environmental spokesperson for the United Nations, was on his Planetwalk (planetwalk.org) journey.

He had already walked across the U.S. on foot, refused to ride in motorized vehicles for 22 years, and, most extraordinarily, stopped talking for 17 years!

Inspiration from her role model helped Wendy get past her fears and take her love of songs and songwriting into the world.

Born in Toronto, Wendy is a gypsy at heart. She has lived in Edmonton, Ottawa, Ottawa Valley, worked with CUSO in the West Indies, spent a year in the B.C. interior and traveled throughout the U.S., South America, the Caribbean and Holland.