RIP Leon Redbone

[canadianbeaver]

 

 

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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[Colt45]

I always think of him as Champagne Charlie    Love his duet with Zooey Deschanel of Baby It's Cold Outside

[canadianbeaver]

A fun afternoon with him down by the water in Toronto at Ontario Place open forum. Rotating stage where musicians played for crowds in seats as well as up on the park land grass all around. Also saw John Prine, Bruce Cockburn, tons of others.

The night Leon Redbone opened, he sits down, beautifully dressed, with maybe 4 piece band around him. Hat, glasses, big beautiful guitar. Waits for crowd to stop taking pictures, shouting requests, whistling etc. We think he is asking for quiet so he can start?

Then he reaches down behind his guitar and lifts out a flash camera and takes a photo of us. LOLOL!