Christa Couture

Christa Couture is a Canadian broadcaster, musician, and writer based in Toronto. She is proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled, and a mom. Christa Couture was born in Peterborough, Ontario. Her family moved to Florida after she was born and then to Edmonton, Alberta, when she was four years old. Couture was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a form of bone cancer, at the age of 11, and her left leg was amputated above the knee at the age of 13 to stop the cancer. Christa was a touring and recording artist from 2002-2020. Her first three albums recounted her battle with cancer, the amputation of her leg, and the death of her two children. "Long Time Leaving" was nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2017 Indigenous Music Awards. Her 2008 album "The Wedding Singer and the Undertaker" won a Canadian Aboriginal Music Award. She had a child in 2006 who died when he was a day old, and then a second child in 2009 who died when he was 14 months old because he was born with a serious heart condition. Her 2021 memoir "How to Lose Everything" chronicles the profound losses in her life including childhood cancer, subsequent leg amputation, and the loss of her two infant sons. In 2024, she was the summer host of The Next Chapter on CBC Radio. Couture is the host of the AMI television series "Postcards From..." In 2018, her CBC article and photos on disability and pregnancy went viral. Not seeing any pictures of pregnant women with disabilities online, she made her own. It was the first time she had taken off her state-of-the-art prosthesis for a photo.

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