Tag: Music

Website Hal Fox Beckett is an award-winning composer, conductor and music producer who over the last three decades has established himself as one of Western Canada’s most respected musicians. A longtime resident of Vancouver, he has composed music for operatic and symphonic ensembles, film, tv, and multi-media projects; he is also the Music Director for…
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Michael Conway Baker was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 13, 1937. The son of vaudeville and radio comedian Phil Baker, he showed great aptitude for music from an early age. In 1958, after high school graduation, Baker moved to Vancouver, his mother ‘s native city. He passed the external examinations of the London College of Music,…
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Randy Bachman was born in Winnipeg, Canada on September 27th, 1943. At age three he won a singing contest on CKY’s King of the Saddle program. By age 5 he had started studying the violin in the Royal Toronto Conservatory of Music. Randy Bachman is a legendary figure in the rock and roll world as a guitarist, songwriter, performer and…
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Website Dubbed by The New York Times as the “Michael Jackson of India,” Canada’s Jaswinder Singh Bains, more popularly known as Jazzy B, is heralded for introducing a fresh new image to the world of Bhangra music. Since his smash debut album, Gugian de Jorra, hit the streets in 1993, the transatlantic superstar has released…
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John (Henry Patrick) Avison was born in Vancouver April 25th,1915, He received his ATCM in 1929. He attended the University of British Columbia (BA 1935) and the University of Washington (B MUS 1936). After World War II service he resumed music studies at the Juilliard School in 1946, at Columbia U 1946-7, and at Yale in…
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