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x James Doohan James Doohan     Person
James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Doohan's characterization of the Scottish...
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x Stephen Fearing StephenFearing 2007 Folk music Vancouver Person
Stephen Fearing (born 1963) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Fearing was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He returned to Canada in 1981 and began pursuing a career in music. In addition to his solo career,...
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x Sook-Yin Lee Sook-Yin Lee as she appeared in the movie Shortbus     Person
Sook-Yin Lee is a Canadian musician, filmmaker, actress and media personality. Lee grew up in a Vancouver suburb with first-generation Chinese-Canadian parents. In the 1990s, she became the lead singer for Bob's Your Uncle, a Vancouver alternative...
Film actor
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x Nicholas Tse NicolasTse2005     Person
Nicholas Tse, or Tse Ting-Fung, is a Hong Kong based Chinese singer-songwriter, actor and musician. He is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. He is a member of the Emperor Entertainment Group. Throughout his career, he has been a singer, an...
Film actor
Musical Group Member
Guitarist
x Charlene Choi Charlene Choi     Person
Charlene Choi (born November 22, 1982) is a Hong Kong-based actress and singer. She is best known as a member of the Cantopop girl group Twins, alongside Gillian Chung. Choi was born in Vancouver, Canada. She moved with her family to Hong Kong a few...
Film actor
Musical Group Member
x Art Bergmann       Person
Art Bergmann (born on February 8, 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who was one of the key figures in Canadian punk rock in the late 1970s. Bergmann began his musical career with an Abbotsford band called the...
Songwriter
Musical Group Member
Lyricist
Composer
x Nardwuar the Human Serviette Nardwuar by William Jans Garage rock Vancouver Person
Nardwuar the Human Serviette (born John Ruskin, July 5, 1968) is a Canadian celebrity interviewer and musician from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is the lead singer and keyboardist for The Evaporators and plays in Thee Goblins. He is an...
Punk rock Musical Group Member
Broadcast Artist
Funny names
x Linda McRae   Folk rock Vancouver Person
Linda McRae is a Canadian rock and alternative country musician. McRae was a member of platinum folk rock band Spirit of the West from 1988 to 1996. A multi-instrumentalist playing accordion, guitar, bass, and banjo she also appeared as a guest...
Alternative country
x Doug Bennett   Rock music   Person
Doug Bennett (October 31, 1951 - October 16, 2004) was the lead singer of Canadian rock band Doug and the Slugs. He also produced and directed music videos for artists such as Headpins, Trooper, Zappacosta, Images In Vogue and for the Slugs...
Musical Group Member
Deceased Person
x Bill Henderson Greatest Hits  Rock music   Person
Bill Henderson (born November 6, 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian singer/songwriter. He first appeared on the Canadian music scene as a member of the group The Collectors, but he is best known for his work with the group Chilliwack...
Musical Group Member
x Jon Kimura Parker       Person
Jon Kimura Parker (born 25 December 1959) is a Canadian pianist. He was born in Vancouver, Canada, the son of Keiko Parker and the nephew of Edward Parker. He appeared with the Vancouver Youth Orchestra when he was five. He later studied at The...
x Jeremy Fisher   Breakbeat Hamilton Person
Jeremy Fisher (born Jeremy Binns on December 15, 1976) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Fisher was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. Fisher was also a member of the Hamilton All-Star Jazz Band for many years while attending Westdale Secondary...
Folk music Songwriter
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x Jade Kwan Jade Kwan 001s     Person
Jade Kwan is a Cantopop singer in Hong Kong. Kwan entered the New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition 1999 (新秀歌唱大賽溫哥華選拔賽) with the song "Face" (臉) originally sung by singer Faye Wong and was awarded first runner-up. As such, she represented...
x Grant Lawrence Grant Lawrence     Person
Grant Lawrence (born c. 1973) is a veteran Canadian radio personality based in Vancouver. He is a host on CBC Radio 3, a Sirius Satellite Radio channel which emphasizes new independent Canadian music, and is also the vocalist for the indie rock...
Podcaster
Blogger
Broadcast Artist
x Dolores Claman       Person
Dolores Claman (July 6, 1927 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian composer and pianist. She is best known for composing the theme song, known simply as The Hockey Theme, for Hockey Night in Canada, a song often regarded as Canada's...
Composer
x Dave Genn Dave Genn     Person
David Robert Madison Genn is a musician and a member of Canadian rock group 54-40. Dave Genn was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 2 March 1969. His father is artist Robert Genn. Genn spent six years with the Matthew Good Band between 1995 and...
Musical Group Member
Guitarist
x Rich Priske Richrock2006   Vancouver Person
Rich "Rock" Priske (born August 29, 1967) is a Canadian musician born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has long been active in the Vancouver music scene, and has played bass and/or written songs for DSK, ShoCore, Bif Naked and Real McKenzies, and...
Film actor
x Suzie Ungerleider Oh Susanna performing at the 2007 NXNE festival Alternative country Vancouver Person
Suzie Ungerleider, who writes and performs as Oh Susanna, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She released her first recording, a seven-song EP, in 1997. In 1999, she released...
Songwriter
Lyricist
Composer
Social network user
x Carly McKillip       Person
Carly McKillip (born February 13, 1989) is a Canadian actress and musician known for her title role in television series Alice, I Think. She is also the former lead vocalist in the Vancouver band Borderline. She was occasionally miscredited as Carly...
TV Actor
Film actor
Influence Node
x Dave Moffatt       Person
David Michael William Moffatt was born March 8, 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia to Frank and Darlana Moffatt. Dave is a fraternal triplet, while his brothers Bob and Clint, who were born on the same date, are identical twins. Dave was born last,...
Social network user
x Karena Lam Karena Lam     Person
Karena Lam (Chinese language: 林嘉欣; Cantonese: Làm Gāyān; pinyin: Lín Jiāxīn; born 17 August 1978) is a Hong Kong based award-winning actress and singer, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her father is from Hong Kong, while her mother is...
Film actor
x Gary O' 1981 self-titled debut     Person
Gary O'Connor, better known as Gary O' is a Canadian singer-songwriter and the son of Canadian musician Billy O'Connor. Gary was a member of the 1960s band Cat, who had a popular Canadian hit in 1970 called "We're in This Together". Following a few...
x Ida Nilsen   Indie pop   Person
Ida Nilsen is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and musician. She has been a member of the bands Radiogram, The Violet Archers, The Beans, The Gay, and most recently The Buttless Chaps, Great Aunt Ida and The Choir Practice. Ida has appeared as...
Songwriter
Lyricist
Composer
x Trevor Guthrie Trevor2 Pop music Vancouver Person
Trevor Guthrie (born February 11, 1973) was the lead singer of the now defunct pop group soulDecision and is now a solo artist. Trevor Guthrie was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. At age 3 he was playing the piano and played his first concert at...
Dance music Musical Group Member
Rock music
Adult contemporary music
x Camille Henderson       Person
Camille Henderson, born June 16, 1970 (1970-06-16) (age 39) in Vancouver, British Columbia, is a Canadian pop singer. She played the role of Shirley in the classic Canadian movie My American Cousin in 1985, and then went on to become part of the...
Musical Group Member
x Juliette       Person
Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi, CM (born 27 August 1926, St. Vital, Manitoba), nicknamed "Our pet", is a Canadian singer and television host who was featured on CBC Television from the 1950s through the 1970s. The daughter of Polish-Ukrainian...
x Barney Bentall   Rock music   Person
Barney Bentall (born Barnard Franklin Bentall, March 1956 in Toronto) is a Canadian pop/rock singer-songwriter who is most well-known for his 90s-era band, Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts. Their more popular Canadian singles included ...
x Tom Keenlyside       Person
Tom Keenlyside is a Juno Award-winning saxophonist and jazz flute player from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Born and raised in Vancouver, Keenlyside took up the trumpet in 1962 at the age of 12, and played in various rhythm and blues bands...
x John Doheny John Doheny at the Vancouver Jazz Festival '07. Photo by Raquel Dennett Jazz   Person
John Steven "Pip" Doheny (born December 17, 1953), is a jazz tenor saxophonist and band leader, who also plays flute, clarinet, and alto saxophone. Born in Seattle, Washington, Doheny studied with prominent Canadian saxophonist and bandleader Fraser...
x Fraser MacPherson Photo from the Fraser MacPherson estate     Person
John Fraser MacPherson, CM (10 April 1928 - 27 September 1993) was a Canadian jazz musician born in St. Boniface, Manitoba. He moved to Victoria, British Columbia as a child, where he learned piano, clarinet, alto and tenor saxophones. After moving...
Deceased Person
x Paul Plimley       Person
Paul (Horace) Plimley (b. Vancouver, 16 March 1953) is a free jazz pianist and vibraphonist. He is one of the doyens of the Canadian jazz avant-garde, a co-founder of the New Orchestra Workshop Society and frequent collaborator with the bassist...
x Norman Nawrocki Norman Nawrocki at Chaotic Insurrection Congress Klezmer Vancouver Person
Norman Nawrocki (born Vancouver, British Columbia), is a Montreal-based comedian, sex educator, cabaret artist, musician, author, actor, producer and composer. Nawrocki together with Sylvain Côté were the founding members of "rock 'n roll cabaret"...
Cabaret Author
Punk rock
Post-rock
Spoken word
x Mart Kenney       Deceased Person
Herbert Martin "Mart" Kenney (March 7, 1910 - February 8, 2006) was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader whose big band Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen was Canada's premier dance band during the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Toronto, Kenney...
Person
x Sarah McLachlan sarah.jpg Piano rock Halifax Regional Municipality Person
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born 28 January 1968(1968-01-28)) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. She is known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range. As of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her best...
Pop music City of Halifax Songwriter
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x Devin Townsend Devin Townsend Experimental classical music   Person
Devin Garret Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2006 and has had an extensive career as a solo artist...
Metal Musical Group Member
Ambient music Songwriter
Industrial metal Record Producer
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x Matthew Good Matthew Good Rock music Burnaby Person
Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the...
Acoustic music Vancouver Musical Group Member
Alternative rock Blogger
Influence Node
Social network user
x Miquel Brown   Disco   Person
Miquel Brown (born circa 1945) is a Canadian actress and Disco/Soul singer from the 1970s and '80s most popular for the songs "Close to Perfection" and the Hi-NRG songs 'So Many Men, So Little Time' and "He's A Saint, He's A Sinner" (both now...
Hi-NRG
Dance music
x Bob Rock Bob Rock press photo Heavy metal Winnipeg Person
Robert Jens Rock, (born 19 April 1954 in Winnipeg, Manitoba), is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer. Rock began his career in Langford, British Columbia (a suburb of Victoria) as a guitarist playing with friends William...
Punk rock Songwriter
Pop music Record Producer
Rock music Film actor
Hard rock Lyricist
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x Dave Ogilvie       Person
Dave "Rave" Ogilvie is a Canadian record producer and musician. He is a producer of industrial music and has been associated with bands such as Skinny Puppy (as longtime producer and onetime member), The Birthday Massacre (as producer for their 2007...
Musical Group Member
Record Producer
Recording Engineer
x Bill Leeb Leeb in 2003 Industrial music Vienna Person
Bill Leeb (born Wilhelm Anton Leeb, 21 September 1957, Vienna, Austria) is an electronic musician. He moved to Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada with his family when he was 13. He was a high school student at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School. Leeb...
Electro Musical Group Member
x Rhys Fulber   Heavy metal   Person
Nowell Rhys Fulber is a Canadian electronic musician and producer. He was a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium along with Bill Leeb, and now records on his own under the name Conjure One. Rhys Fulber was born in Vancouver, Canada on October...
Alternative rock Musical Group Member
Electronic music Record Producer
x Yvonne De Carlo Yvonne De Carlo     Film actor
Yvonne De Carlo (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American film and television actress, dancer and singer. In her six-decade career, her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best...
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x CEvin Key Cover of The Dragon Experience.  The boy pictured is Spencer Elden Industrial music Canada Person
cEvin Key (pronounced "Kevin Key", not "Seven Key" as commonly misunderstood) is the pseudonym of Kevin William Crompton (born February 13, 1961), who was a founding member of the industrial music band Skinny Puppy, along with Nivek Ogre. In...
Electronic music Musical Group Member
Experimental music Record Producer
Electro-industrial Songwriter
Lyricist
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x Bruce Fairbairn       Person
Bruce Earl Fairbairn (December 30, 1949 - May 17, 1999) was a Canadian rock music producer who was prominent during the 1980s and 1990s. His style was notable for the introduction of dynamic horn arrangements in the context of hard rock bands such...
Deceased Person
Record Producer
x Dan Mangan Dan Mangan in studio, recording Postcards and Daydreaming Indie rock   Person
Daniel Mangan (born April 28, 1983) is a Canadian indie folk-rock singer-songwriter. Based out of Vancouver, he has released two full-length albums – Postcards and Daydreaming in 2007 and Nice, Nice, Very Nice in 2009. Mangan was born in Smithers,...
Singer-songwriter Social network user
Folk music
x Tobey Black       Person
Tobey Black is a Canadian punk rock and indie rock musician. She has been a guitarist and vocalist for the Vancouver bands Maow and The Gay.
x Aaron Pritchett   Country Vancouver Person
Aaron Pritchett (born August 2, 1970 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian country music singer. He was born in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Pritchett got his start as a DJ at Rooster's Country Cabaret bar in Pitt Meadows,...
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x Ann Mortifee       Person
Ann Mortifee, CM (born 30 November 1947 in Zululand, South Africa) is a Canadian-based singer-songwriter, writer and speaker. After emigrating to Canada in childhood, she spent her youth in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the beginning of her...
x Rick Maddocks       Person
Rick Maddocks (born 1970) is a Canadian author and singer/songwriter. Born in Wales, he moved to Canada with his family in the early 1980s. His short story collection Sputnik Diner (Random House, 2002) was nominated for the Danuta Gleed Literary...
Author
x Linda Chung LindaChung     Person
Linda Chung Ka-Yan (traditional Chinese: 鍾嘉欣) (born 9 April 1984) is an award-winning actress and singer based in Hong Kong. She entered the industry in 2004 when she won the 2004 Miss Chinese International Pageant. She is now an actress under TVB...
TV Actor
x Edison Chen 63304602 55f5ac19f1     Person
Edison Koon-Hei Chen is a Hong Kong-based Chinese Canadian film actor, rapper, Cantopop singer, model, record producer, fashion designer, and a pop icon. Chen is also the founder of CLOT Inc., and the CEO of Clot Media Division Limited. His native...
Film actor
TV Actor
x Elise Estrada Elise Estrada at Summer Rush Pop music Vancouver Person
Elise Estrada (born July 30, 1987 in Marikina City, Philippines) is a Canadian pop singer from Surrey, British Columbia. She is of Filipino descent. At age 17, Estrada won the title of Ms. Vancouver Princess in 2004. She later became the first...
Rhythm and blues British Columbia
Hip Hop Surrey
x Curtis Santiago Curtis Santiago performing in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 2008.06.23 Dance music Edmonton Person
Curtis Santiago is a Canadian dance rock musician, originally from Sherwood Park, Alberta, now based in Toronto. He was previously signed to Finger Lickin' Records. In the late 1990s he was a member of the Edmonton group The Hi-Phoniqs, a soul...
Soul music Social network user
x Jodi Proznick Proznick at the Canadian National Jazz Awards Jazz   Person
In 2008, the Jodi Proznick Quartet album "Foundations" was nominated for a Juno Award. Jodi was awarded Bassist of the Year at the 2007 and 2008 National Jazz Awards. Her group, the Jodi Proznick Quartet, which features pianist Tilden Webb, drummer...
x Geoff Peters       Person  
Blogger
x Brian Day       Person
Brian Day, MRCP (UK), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (C), (born c. 1947) is a physician in Canada and was the 2007-2008 president of the Canadian Medical Association. He is known as Dr. Profit by opponents and Dr. Prophet by supporters for his advocacy of a role...
x Blair Thornton       Person
Blair Thornton (born July 23, 1950 in Vancouver, British Columbia), is a rock guitarist and songwriter most widely known for his work with the Canadian band Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO), but also played in the Vancouver based band Crosstown Bus...
Guitarist
x Christine Yoshikawa       Person
Christine Mari Yoshikawa (born October 23, 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a classical pianist. Born into a musical family to a Canadian father and a Japanese mother, Christine Yoshikawa began her musical studies at an early age. She...
x Tristan Martin       Person
Tristan Martin Oddo Norton (born February 21, 1985) is an Italian-Canadian musician and the lead guitarist and back up vocalist of the Vancouver based band The Sessions.
x Tobias Jesso       Person
Tobias MacDonald Jesso Jr. (born July 11, 1985) is a Canadian musician and was the bassist and back up vocalist of the Vancouver based band The Sessions.
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