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The origins of Our Lady Peace began in late 1991, when Michael Maida responsded to an ad Mike Turner had placed in Now Magazine, looking to put a band together. Maida was a criminology student at the University of Toronto, and thought it would be a good way to make an extra buck on the …
Originally from Calgary, trombonist Ian McDougall moved to Victoria as a teenager, then studied music at UBC. By the end of the 1960s, he was already accomplished on the local circuit, and CBC Records released MUSIC BY IAN McDOUGALL in early 1970. While lending himself out to other artists’ projects, CBC urged him to put …
Michel Pagliaro was born in Montreal in 1948, and by age 11 he was playing the guitar. Only four years later he was playing in his first band, les Stringmen, which evolved into les Bluebirds, and then les Merseys. Along the way, those formative first few years gave him exposure to audiences during street fests, …
After one album in 1969 and one subsequent single with minimal success, 49th Parallel packed it in a year later, and from the ashes rose guitarist Danny Lowe’s new project, Painter. Based out of Edmonton and with a reformed lineup that consisted of Doran Beattie on vocals, Royden Morice on bass and drummer Bob “Herb” …
Billy Bryans memorial Margo Davidson memorial The earliest roots of The Parachute Club stem from when Lorraine Segato and Thunder Bay native Laurie Conger on keyboards joined the all-girl band Mama Quilla II, actually the second incarnation of Mama Quilla – named after an Incan war goddess. They spent the mid ’70s becoming fixtures of …
Born in Toronto in 1954, a twelve year-old Pat Travers was inspired to play guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix in Ottawa, along with other influences of the day that included the likes of Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. He joined his first band while still in his early teens, and while on tour …
Born in Calgary in 1972 as Paul Rennee Belobersycky, Paul Brandt was raised in Airdrie, and had been singing and playing guitar since before he was a teen, listening to the day’s top country hits, as well as the gospel and traditional bluegrass and country influences from his parents. His first public performance being his …
Possibly one of the most under-rated pioneers of Canadian rock as we know it today, Paul Dean is unique in that his first instrument wasn’t the guitar, drums, or even the piano. While at his parents’ ski resort at Lake Windemere in BC, he became so enamoured with a guest’s ukelele that his parents bought …
Born in Three Hills, Alberta, Paul Janz moved to Balen, Switzerland with his family when only four years old. The son of a Mennonite Minister, his earliest musical influences were naturally gospel and choir. By age ten he was an established singer in the church choir and was already dabbling in writing gospel arrangements. His …
Vancouver’s Paul Robert Laine left home as an early teen, and was playing guitar in clubs at only 16 years old, lieing about his age since the province’s legal age was and still is 19. Wanting to strike out on his own with himself singing, he produced a three-song demo as bait but that none …