This list of famous Canadian musicians includes both bands and solo artists, as well as many singers/groups of indie and underground status.
Also ranks #4 on The Best Canadian Rock Bands Also ranks #6 on The Best Musicians Who Performed on SNL in the '70s Also ranks #7 on The Best Pop Folk Artists of All Time 4 Joni Mitchell 439 votes An artist whose immense talent transcends genre constraints, Joni Mitchell is a folk i...
Fame and fortune don’t guarantee job security, as many rock stars have discovered. The list of famous musicians who have been fired from their bands features some of the biggest names in rock history.Ozzy Osbournewas kicked out ofBlack Sabbathwhen his drug use became too much to handle. Th...
He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and one of the founders of cognitive-behavioral therapies.Based on a 1982 professional survey of US and Canadian psychologists, he was considered as the second most influential ...
Love them or hate them, there’s no arguing with the massive commercial success of Nickelback. As the best-selling Canadian rock band of all time, they were a pretty easy inclusion for the closing ceremony at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. The Chad Kroeger-led group opened a concert sectio...
Love them or hate them, there’s no arguing with the massive commercial success of Nickelback. As the best-selling Canadian rock band of all time, they were a pretty easy inclusion for the closing ceremony at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. The Chad Kroeger-led group opened a concert sectio...
Greg "Fritz" Hinz, drummer for Helix, died in February at the age of 68. Hinz had been a member of the Canadian hard rock band from 1982 until 1996, then returned again in 2009. "Fritz was the consummate rock drummer," his bandmate Brian Vollmer said in a statement. "It was his ...
Charlotte Witton (1st woman mayor of a major Canadian city, Ottawa) Margaret Grier (?) Witton is credit with creating the slogan: “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought of half so good … luckily, it’s not difficult.” 32 Ned Rorem (composer, author...
Formed in 2001 out of Newark, New Jersey,My Chemical Romanceis often lumped in with other emo bands, but they always maintain some pop punk and hard rock in their emo sounds. The band’s most famous song is “Welcome to the Black Parade,” which they released in 2006. The song is an...
Even fans outside the club can benefit from such advantages if they connect their digital wallets to the band’s platform to access loyalty rewards and more benefits. Avenged Sevenfold is among the first rock bands to introduce an NFT loyalty product. ...