One of my all time favorite “Canadian” musicians. Leon Redbone. RIP.?
Biographical details did emerge, possibly against his best wishes, even if they stood little competition against the enduring enigma his fans enjoyed. The Toronto Star revealed that he was born Dickran Gobalian and “reinvented himself under the guidelines of Ontario’s Change of Name Act” when he moved from Cyprus to Canada in the mid-1960s. He got his start playing Toronto folk clubs in the early ’70s, the newspaper said, pointing out that he later settled in Pennsylvania.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/variety.com/2019/music/news/singer-leon-redbone-dies-at-69-1203229012/amp/
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