Barenaked ladies singer
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Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies, clever Canadian band on the razor’s edge of pop and novelty. Membership: Steven Page, gtr., voc. (b. Scarborough, Ontario, June 22); Ed Robertson, gtr., voc. (b. Ontario, Oct. 25, 1970); Jim Creeggan, acou. bs. (b. Feb. 12, 1970); Andrew Creeg-gan, kybd. (b. July 4, 1971); Tyler Stewart, drm. (b. Sept. 21, 1967).
Singing guitarists Steven Page and Ed Robertson knew each other from their grade-school days, but only started playing together in their late teens, when they were working at a camp for musically gifted children. They started making demo tapes just for fun in Page’s basement. They came up with a name for their act during a Bob Dylan concert. They were so bored that they started making up band names, and came up with Barenaked Ladies. The name reflects their songs, once described as a mixture of intellectual hedonism and vaudeville clowning.
Initially, Page and Robertson played on the street, busking for coins. When they started getting paying gigs, they brought the Creeggan brothers on board—Jim on double bass and Andrew on keyboards
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Barenaked Ladies
Canadian rock band
Barenaked Ladies (BNL) are a Canadian rock band formed in 1988 in the Torontosuburb of Scarborough, Ontario. The band developed a following in Canada, with their self-titled 1991 cassette becoming the first independent release to be certified gold in Canada. They reached mainstream success in Canada when their debut with Reprise Records, Gordon, featuring the singles "If I Had $1000000" and "Brian Wilson", was released in 1992. The band's popularity subsequently spread into the US, beginning with versions of "Brian Wilson" and "The Old Apartment" off their 1996 live album Rock Spectacle, followed by their fourth studio album Stunt, their breakout success in 1998. The album featured their highest-charting hit, "One Week", as well as "It's All Been Done" and "Call and Answer".[2] Their fifth album, Maroon, featuring the lead single "Pinch Me", also charted highly. The band is also recognized for creating and performing the theme song to the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Initially a duo of Ed Robertson and Steve
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Barenaked Ladies Biography
Barenaked Ladies
Canadian folk-rock groupSteven Page and Ed Robertson established the band in 1998. They claim the band's name is meant to suggest youthful naivete and is not at all sexist. Tyler Steward and Jim Creeggan joined next, and a fifth member, Andrew Creeggan, was replaced in 1995 by Kevin Hearn. In 1990, the Ladies released a successful independent EP, “Be My Yoko Ono,” and their debut album, Gordon, was a hit in Canada in 1992. Two more albums followed, Maybe You Should Drive (1994) and Born on a Pirate Ship (1996), the latter helped by the group's appearance on the TV show Beverly Hills 90210. They were the subject of Jason Priestley's rockumentary, Barenaked in America. 2000 saw the release of Maroon, produced by Don Was. In 2001 they won three Juno Awards, best group, best album (Maroon) and best pop album (Maroon).
Steven Page
Born: 6/22/1970Birthplace: Scarborough, Ontario
Ed Robertson
Born: 10/25/1970Birthplace: Scarborough, Ontario
Tyler Stewart
Born: 12/25/1975Birthplace: New Market, Ontario
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