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Billy Bryans

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William Taylor "Billy" Bryans (September 15, 1947 – April 23, 2012) was a Canadian percussionist, songwriter, music producer and DJ, known as one of the founders of The Parachute Club, among other accomplishments in music. [1]

62 relations: A&M Records, AfroNubians, Alex Cuba, Art punk, As It Happens, Atlantic Records, Attic Records, Bertelsmann Music Group, Bootleg (Downchild Blues Band album), Brockville, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Caribbean music in Canada, CBC Radio One, Compilation album, Daniel Lanois, Diblo Dibala, Downchild Blues Band, Dutch Mason, Entertainment One Music, Evergreen Everblue, Expo 67, Eyuphuro, Flip, Flop and Fly, Funk, Genie Awards, George Fox (singer), Government, Holly Cole, Jack Layton, Jungle 2 Jungle, Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year, Juno Awards of 1992, Kingston, Ontario, Latin music, Lillian Allen, Linus Entertainment, Lorraine Segato, Mama Quilla II, Moe Koffman, Montreal, Music of Cuba, Music of Latin America, New wave music, Ottawa, Palliative care, Pointe-Claire, Raffi, RCA Records, Reggae, Rochdale College, ..., Rock music, Rounder Records, Session musician, Sir George Williams University, Soca music, The Beach Boys, The Globe and Mail, The Parachute Club, The Walt Disney Company, Toronto, Toronto International Film Festival, World music. Expand index (12 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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AfroNubians

The AfroNubians were a world music band based in Toronto.

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Alex Cuba

Alexis Puentes (born 1974), better known by his stage name Alex Cuba, is a Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter who sings in Spanish and English.

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Art punk

Art punk is a category of punk bands which are arguably more sophisticated than their peers, and go beyond punk's garage rock foundations.

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As It Happens

As It Happens is a Canadian interview show that airs on CBC Radio One in Canada and various public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio International.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Attic Records

Attic Records was a Canadian independent record label, founded in 1974 by Alexander Mair and Tom Williams.

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Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group (abbreviated as BMG) was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.

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Bootleg (Downchild Blues Band album)

Bootleg is the 1971 debut album from the Canadian blues group the Downchild Blues Band.

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Brockville

Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada in the Thousand Islands region.

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Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist.

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Caribbean music in Canada

Caribbean music in Canada has existed since the early 1920s, at The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Daniel Lanois

Daniel Roland Lanois (born September 19, 1951) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.

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Diblo Dibala

Diblo Dibala, often known simply as Diblo, is a Congolese soukous musician, known as "Machine Gun" for his speed and skill on the guitar.

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Downchild Blues Band

The Downchild Blues Band is a Canadian blues band, described by one reviewer as "the premier blues band in Canada".

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Dutch Mason

Dutch Mason, (19 February 1938 – 23 December 2006) was a Canadian musician from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Entertainment One Music

Entertainment One Music is an independent record label owned by Entertainment One in the United States.

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Evergreen Everblue

Evergreen Everblue is a music album by popular children's entertainer Raffi, released in 1990.

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Expo 67

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was a general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967.

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Eyuphuro

Eyuphuro is a Mozambican band.

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Flip, Flop and Fly

"Flip, Flop and Fly" is a song recorded by Big Joe Turner in 1955.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Genie Awards

The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980-2012.

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George Fox (singer)

George Fox (born March 23, 1960 in Calgary, Alberta) is a country/western music singer/songwriter raised in Cochrane, Alberta, the son of cattle ranchers Bert and Gert Fox.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.

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Holly Cole

Holly Cole (born November 25, 1963) is a Canadian jazz singer, particularly popular in Canada and Japan for both her versatile and distinctive voice, along with her adventurous repertoire, which spans such divergent genres as show tunes, rock, and country music.

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Jack Layton

John Gilbert "Jack" Layton (July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011) was a Canadian politician and Leader of the Official Opposition.

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Jungle 2 Jungle

Jungle 2 Jungle is a 1997 Franco-American comedy film directed by John Pasquin, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and TF1 Films Productions, and starring Tim Allen, Martin Short, Lolita Davidovich, David Ogden Stiers, JoBeth Williams, and Sam Huntington as Mimi-Siku.

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Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "World Music Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1992, as recognition each year for the best world music album in Canada.

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Juno Awards of 1992

The Juno Awards of 1992, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 29 March 1992 in Toronto at a ceremony in the O'Keefe Centre.

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Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Latin music

Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a genre that is used by the music industry as a catch-all term for any music that comes from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas of the world, namely Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, as well as music sung in either language.

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Lillian Allen

Lillian Allen (born 5 April 1951) is a Canadian dub poet, reggae musician, writer and Juno Award winner.

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Linus Entertainment

Linus Entertainment is a multi-faceted music company operating as an independent record label, distributor and music publisher.

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Lorraine Segato

Lorraine Christine Segato (born June 17, 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for and a principal songwriter of new wave and pop rock group The Parachute Club, with which she continues to perform.

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Mama Quilla II

Mama Quilla II was a Canadian rock band that first performed together in 1977 in Toronto and dissolved in 1982.

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Moe Koffman

Morris "Moe" Koffman, OC (28 December 1928 – 28 March 2001) was a Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist, as well as composer and arranger.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Music of Cuba

The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and European (especially Spanish) music.

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Music of Latin America

The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean south of the United States.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Palliative care

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical and nursing care for people with life-limiting illnesses.

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Pointe-Claire

Pointe-Claire is an on-island suburb of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.

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Raffi

Raffi Cavoukian, (Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), better known by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author of Armenian descent born in Egypt, best known for his children's music.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rochdale College

Opened in 1968, Rochdale College was an experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rounder Records

Rounder Records is an American record label specializing in folk, bluegrass, blues, and other forms of American roots music.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Sir George Williams University

Sir George Williams University is a former university that was located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Soca music

Soca music (also defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul Of Calypso") is a genre of music that originated within a marginalized subculture in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s, and developed into a range of styles by the 1980s and later.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Parachute Club

The Parachute Club was a Canadian band formed in Toronto in 1982.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bryans

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