Tag: Music

Diana [Jean] Krall OC, OBC, was born in 1964 in Nanaimo, BC. As a jazz singer and pianist, she is known for her contralto vocals, selling more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million, worldwide. In 2009 Billboard magazine named her the second most important jazz artist of the first decade…
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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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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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