Ken Yates (born in London, Ontario, on 15 June 1989) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter who won the Canadian Folk Music Awards for English Songwriter of the Year and New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2017.

Yates studied at the Berklee College of Music. He released "The Backseat" EP in 2011, and followed up with his full-length debut "twenty-three" in 2013. He won the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award in 2014 for his song "The One That Got Away".

His second album, Huntsville, was released in 2016 and was produced by Jim Bryson.

Yates released the singles, "Two Wrongs", "Quiet Talkers", and "When We Came Home", in advance of his third full-length album, "Quiet Talkers", released in 2020. He released his fourth album, "Cerulean", on June 3, 2022. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.