TOP MUSICIANS FROM CANADA
1. Neil Young - Folk Rock
2. Leonard Cohen - Folk Music
3. Joni Mitchell - Folk Music
4. Rush - Progressive Rock
5. The Band - Folk Rock
6. Glenn Gould - Piano Virtuoso
7. Oscar Peterson - Jazz
8. Steppenwolf - Hard Rock
9. Arcade Fire - Indie Rock
10. Howard Shore - Instrumental Music
11. Loreena McKennitt - Celtic Music
McKennitt is compared to Enya but McKennitt's music is more grounded in traditional and classical invocations
12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Post Rock
13. The Guess Who - Rock
14. Rufus Wainwright - Singer/Songwriter
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7 comments:
What about Gordon Lightfoot?! Stan Rogers?!
how is this ranked....where are the tragically hip and why u have a brian adams tine as editors pick but he doesnt rank
Broken Social Scene?
paul anka?
Indeed, why there is no rank for Bryan Adams. And where are Shania Twain and Alanis Morissette? Or are they too popular to be here?
Counting the list, all mentions by others and me, that is only 22 musicians/bands. I think there would be much more to add...
Avril, Sum 41, The Hip, ...there's not 1 rap/soul artist
Drake (rap), The Weeknd (pop), Celine Dion (pop/ballad), Tegan and Sara (pop), Carly Rae Jepsen (pop), New Pornographers (indie rock), Kate & Anna McGarrigle (folk), The Tragically Hip (rock), Hank Snow (country), Sloan (rock), Feist (pop), Avril Lavigne (pop/rock), Destroyer (rock), Sarah McLachlan (pop), Japandroids (rock), Shawn Mendes (pop), Alvvays (pop), Loverboy (rock), Richie Hawtin (electronic), Anne Murray (country & pop), Nelly Furtado (pop), Alessia Cara (pop), D.O.A. (punk), PartyNextDoor (r&B/hip hop), k.d. lang (country & pop), Metric (rock), Peaches (electroclash etc.), Sum 41 (punk), Death From Above 1979 (rock), Barenaked Ladies (rock). Daniel Caesar (r&b), April Wine (rock), Terri Clark (country), Martha and the Muffins (rock), Snow (rap), Carole Laure (actress & singer), Sook-Yin Lee (actress & singer), Vanity (pop), Appleton (pop), Lara Fabian (dance pop), Daniel Lanois (rock), Alannah Myles (pop/rock), Diana Krall (jazz), Amanda Marshall (rock), Chantal Chamandy (pop), Chantal Kreviazuk (pop), Deborah Cox (pop), Lee Aaron (rock), deadmau5 (electronic), Nickelback (rock), Paul Anka (pop), Bachman-Turner Overdrive (rock)
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