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Filter this CollectionTerry Carisse
Terry (Victor) Carisse (July 11, 1942–May 22, 2005) was a Canadian country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
He was born in Ottawa in 1942. Together with Bruce Rawlins, he composed songs performed by the Mercey Brothers, Carroll Baker, Bill...
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- Jul 11, 1942
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- May 22, 2005
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One to One
One to One was a Canadian pop music group in the 1980s. They later changed their name to One 2 One.
Consisting of vocalist Louise Reny and producer Leslie Howe, the duo released three albums and scored ten hits across Canada between 1985 and 1992....
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- Pop music,
- Dance music,
- Adult contemporary music
- Dance music,
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Derek R. Audette
Derek Raymond Joseph Audette (born June 16, 1971) is a Canadian artist, musician and poet.
Audette was born in Hull, Quebec. He has lived most of his life in the Ottawa Valley region of eastern Ontario and the city of Ottawa. A musician, painter,...
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- Jun 16, 1971
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- 1990
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- Electronica,
- Rock music,
- Blues,
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- Rock music,
Ivory Knight
Ivory Knight was a Canadian metal quartet whose sound combined elements of power metal, thrash, progressive metal, hard rock, and death metal.
Ivory Knight was originally founded in 1988 by vocalist / multi-instrumentalist John Devadasan Perinbam...
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- Heavy metal
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Jim Bryson
Jim Bryson is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Briefly a founding member of the band Punchbuggy, he moved to a musical life under his own name with the release of his debut album, The Occasionals, in 2000.
A member of country singer Kathleen Edwards's...
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- Folk music,
- Indie rock
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Jesus and the Lizards
Jesus and the Lizards is a 1970s acid rock/jam rock group from Ottawa, Ontario which has featured keyboardist/vocalist Charlie Hoppner, bassist Alex Wagstaff, guitarist Aaron Voelker, tromboner Daniel North and drummer Chris North. The band became...
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Eternia
Eternia (born Silk-Anne Semiramis Dawn Craig Kaya) is a Canadian rapper.
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Eternia released her first full-length album, It's Called Life, in 2005. It was subsequently nominated for the Rap Recording of the Year Juno Award....
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Southpacific
Southpacific (colloquially, "SoPac") was a space rock band with prominent dream pop/post-rock leanings, originally based in Ottawa, Canada.
Its members were multi-instrumentalists Joachim Toelke (primarily electric guitar), Graeme Fleming (primarily...
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- Instrumental rock,
- Shoegazing,
- Dream pop,
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- Shoegazing,
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...as the Poets affirm
As The Poets Affirm was a Canadian independent band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 2001. The band began as a three-piece acoustic project, and later evolved into a seven-member lineup experimenting with jazz, classical and electronica. Their name...
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- Post-rock,
- Indie rock,
- Instrumental rock
- Indie rock,
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Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She has won 12 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two...
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- Jun 1, 1974
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- Rock music,
- Alternative rock,
- Dance-pop,
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- Alternative rock,
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Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Douglas Cockburn, OC (pronounced /ˈkoʊbərn/ KOE-bərn; born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His 29th album was released in summer 2006, and he has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz...
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- May 27, 1945
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- Folk music,
- Jazz,
- Rock music
- Jazz,
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Sue Foley
Sue Foley (born March 29, 1968, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist.
Foley has been writing and playing for over twenty years. She has recorded ten albums, for both Antone's Records and Shanachie Records. She has spent...
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- Mar 29, 1968
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Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1990.
Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and ...
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- Jul 30, 1941
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- Jazz,
- Pop music,
- Rock music
- Pop music,
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Annihilator
Annihilator are a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1984 by the leader and only permanent member, vocalist, guitarist and bassist Jeff Waters. They debuted with the critically-acclaimed album, Alice in Hell in 1989.
Annihilator were started in...
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- 1984
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- Heavy metal,
- Thrash metal,
- Speed metal,
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- Thrash metal,
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Exciter
Exciter are a Canadian speed metal band from Ottawa, Ontario. They are widely considered to be one of the first speed metal bands and a seminal influence of the thrash metal genre. Despite many changes in personnel, the band have managed to keep a...
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- 1980
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- Heavy metal,
- Speed metal,
- Thrash metal
- Speed metal,
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Spookey Ruben
Spookey Ruben (born in Ottawa, Canada) is a Toronto-based musician, composer and video director. Due to his father's work as a space engineer Spookey grew up in Germany, Holland, and Washington, D.C. In his childhood, Spookey's parents insisted he...
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- Power pop,
- Industrial music,
- Alternative rock,
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- Industrial music,
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Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Edwards (born July 11, 1978 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. Her 2003 debut album, Failer, contained the singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates".
Edwards, whose parents were diplomats, spent...
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- Jul 11, 1978
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- Folk music,
- Alternative country,
- Country
- Alternative country,
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Daiquiri
Daiquiri is a 2-piece electrospazz thrash punk band from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They formed as a 4-piece punk rock band in 1999 and eventually settled into the current 2-piece configuration in 2001. They have 3 albums available, all released...
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Siobhan
Siobhan was an all-male, six-piece Celtic punk band, using a female Irish given name (Siobhán), pronounced 'shi-VAWN' (IPA: /ʃəˈvɔːn/) formed in Ottawa and made up mostly of members who attended Carleton University together. The band toured...
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- Celtic punk,
- Punk rock
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Glen Drover
Glen Drover (born May 25, 1969) is a heavy metal guitarist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. Drover is best known as the former lead guitarist in Megadeth and King Diamond, as well as his own band Eidolon, along...
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- May 25, 1969
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- Heavy metal,
- Speed metal,
- Thrash metal,
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- Speed metal,
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Richard Parry
Richard Reed Parry (born October 4, 1977) is a musician, composer and member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire, where he plays double bass, celesta, keyboards, electric guitar, and accordion. He is also the leader of the Bell Orchestre, in which he...
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- Oct 4, 1977
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- Indie rock
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- Percussion,
- Keyboard instrument,
- Electric guitar,
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- Keyboard instrument,
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Jeremy Gara
Jeremy Gara (born June 6, 1978) is a drummer from Ottawa, Canada. He currently plays with successful indie-rock band Arcade Fire, and is the principal member of Lessons. He has played in many other bands in the past, including "slow-core" band...
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- Keyboard instrument,
- Guitar,
- Drum kit,
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- Guitar,
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The Acorn
The Acorn is a Canadian indie folk band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 2003. Rolf Klausener is the principal songwriter, as well as vocalist and guitarist. The other members are drummer Jeffrey Malecki, guitarist/visual artist Howie Tsui, bassist...
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- Indie rock,
- Folk music
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Belly
Ahmad Balshe (born April 7, 1984), better known by his stage name Belly, is a Palestinian-Canadian Juno Award-winning rapper.
Born in Jenin, Palestine, his musical career has been based in the Toronto, Ontario. In addition to a Juno, he has won two...
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- Apr 7, 1984
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- Gangsta rap
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Back Alley John
Back Alley John (b. John Carl David Wilson, Ottawa, Ontario, February 10, 1955; d. Calgary, Alberta, June 22, 2006) was a Canadian blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player.
Born into a strict military family in Ottawa, Ontario, a young John...
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- Feb 10, 1955
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