Bruce Cockburn
Gender: Male
Born: 27th May 1945 (currently 66 years old)
Nationality: Canada
Albums: Anything Anytime Anywhere Singles 1979 - 2002, Big Circumstance, Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu, Bruce Cockburn, Christmas, Circles in the Stream, Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws, Dart to the Heart, Further Adventures Of, Further Adventures Of, Great Big Love, High Winds, White Sky, Humans, In the Falling Dark, In the Falling Dark, Inner City Front, Joy Will Find a Way, Life Short Call Now, Live, Live, Mummy Dust, Night Vision, Nothing But a Burning Light, Rumours of Glory, Salt, Sun and Time, Slice o Life: Bruce Cockburn Live Solo, Small Source of Comfort, Speechless, Stealing Fire, Stealing Fire, Sunwheel Dance, The Charity of Night, The Trouble With Normal, Waiting for a Miracle (Singles 1970-1987), Waiting for a Miracle (Singles 1970-1987) (2 of 2), World of Wonders, You've Never Seen Everything, You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance
Genre: Folk music, Jazz, Rock music
Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC ( /ˈkoʊbərn/ KOH-bərn; born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.
Bruce Cockburn was born in 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and spent some of his early years on a farm outside Pembroke, Ontario. He has stated in interviews that his first guitar was one he found around 1959 in his grandmother's attic, which he adorned with golden stars and used to play along to radio hits. Cockburn was a student (but did not study music) at Nepean High School, where his 1964 yearbook photo states his desire "to become a musician." He attended Berklee School of Music in Boston for three semesters in the mid-1960s. In 1966 he joined an Ottawa band called The Children, which lasted for about a year. In the spring of 1967 he joined the final lineup of The Esquires. He moved to Toronto that summer to form The Flying Circus with former Bobby Kris & The Imperials members Marty Fisher and Gordon MacBain and ex-Tripp member Neil Lillie. The group recorded some material in late 1967 (which remains unreleased)
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