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Albani, Emma
Dame Emma Albani was a leading soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century. She performed operas for audiences as prestigious as Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm I and Tsar Alexander II. Born Ma...
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Collins, Dorothy
On "Your Hit Parade" in the 1950's, singing "Be happy, go Lucky" for the sponsor, Lucky Strike cigarettes; later sang weekly top hits; in the 1960s, helped set up gags on unwi...
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Faith, Percy
Percy Faith was a music producer, band-leader and pianist, Faith is best known for his composition, Theme From a Summer Place.
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Forrester, Maureen
World-renowned Canadian operatic contralto who earned praise on both the operatic and recital stages. Ms Forrester performed in many of the world's leading venues over her long and distinguished ...
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Gould, Glenn Herbert
Glenn Gould was a pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the twentieth century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of J. S...
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Kerr, Frank
Frank Kerr, aka Frankie Venom, was the lead singer of punk rock pioneers Teenage Head, founded at Westdale High School in Hamilton, Ontario in 1975.
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Koffman, Moe
Moe Koffman was a great Canadian Jazz/Bebop musician who played both the flute and the saxophone.
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MacAulay, Scott
Claim to fame: World class piper, Director and CEO of The College of Piping in PEIBirth:Death: September 10 2008 Interment:
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Quarington, Paul
Paul Lewis Quarrington http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/01/21/paul-quarrington-obit.html
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Rankin, Raylene
Raylene Rankin was a member of the legendary Cape Breton musical families: The Rankin Family
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Richardson, James
James Richardson was posthumously awarded a Victoria Cross "for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty ... strode up and down outside the wire playing his pipes with the greatest coolnes...
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