Robbie King was born on May 27, 1947 in Malarctic, Quebec, the son of big band musicians. Robbie was legendary for his incomparable style on B3 organ and bass pedals. At age 17, he left home to play clubs in Toronto. He moved west with The Good Shepherds and at 19 signed to Motown with…
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Fanny Kiefer moved to Canada from Montana in 1966. She began her career in the media at CJOR in 1978 when she had the distinction of being the first woman to host her own radio talk show. For ten years she hosted programs on CKNW; she also transitioned into television as host of her own…
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Website Todd Kerns calls British Columbia his home after spending most of his formative musical career in Vancouver. Todd Kerns was the front man for the band The Age of Electric, which received a Gold Record for the album Make a Pest a Pet. Todd has also appeared on numerous albums solidifying himself as one…
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Mart (Herbert Martin) Kenney was born in Toronto on March 7,1910. Kenney, an alto and baritone saxophonist and clarinetist who played during the late 1920s in the CJOR radio orchestra. Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen, Canada’s leading dance band in the 1930s and 1940s was formed in 1931 for an engagement at Vancouver’s Alexandra…
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Evan Kemp was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but, it was growing up in the Canadian prairies that began his love for music. A childhood accident at the age of six left him almost blinded for the good part of a year and it was then that he began to listen and love the music…
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