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Jul 23, 2022 · Baywatch went on to become the world’s most-watched TV show and ran for 11 seasons (beating out Friends by one season). The show earned an estimated weekly audience of 1.1 billion viewers in 142 ...
Oct 5, 2021 · After deducting $1.3 billion of his assets that have been frozen, Forbes estimates his net worth at $4.7 billion. The youngest newcomer is 29-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried ...
Paul Mayersberg. Born. (1941-06-18) 18 June 1941 (age 83) Hitchin, England, UK. Occupation. Writer. Paul Mayersberg (born 18 June 1941) is an English writer and director and was the film critic for Movie magazine in the early 1960s and author of 1968 film book Hollywood, The Haunted House.
- Robbie Robertson
- Anne Murray
- Sarah Mclachlan
- Mylène Farmer
- Alanis Morissette
- Avril Lavigne
- Ryan Peake
- Bryan Adams
- Chad Kroeger
- Michael Bublé
As lead guitarist and songwriter for the Band, Robbie Robertson brought us iconic songs like The Weight. It is said that he honed his guitar-playing skills while visiting his Indigenous mother’s relatives on the Six Nations Reserve near his hometown of Toronto. Outside of the Band, he’s played with some of the richest rock stars and released his fi...
Nova Scotia-native Anne Murray had already gained popularity in Canada when, in 1969, she released the song Snowbird. This hit made her the first Canadian artist to receive a gold record in the United States and catapulted her to fame. The hits kept coming throughout the 1970s and ’80s, as did the awards, among them 24 Juno Awards — more than any o...
You can’t think of female musicians of the ’90s without Angelplaying in your head. Sarah McLachlan’s most famous song wasn’t her first hit, though. The singer, who was born in Halifax and adopted by the local McLachlan family, had already made her mainstream breakthrough in Canada seven years earlier, in 1991. Around the same time, she released Ang...
French superstar Mylène Farmer actually hails from Canada. She was born in Pierrefonds in Quebec. She started her career as a model and with small acting parts before releasing her debut album in 1986. She’s since had a record-breaking 21 number-one singles in the French charts, among them a duet with Sting, Stolen Car. She regularly plays to packe...
If you were old enough to sing in the mid-’90s, you probably belted out “You, you, you oughta know!” at least once. Ottawa native Alanis Morissette was a child star and had two pop albums to her name when, in 1995, Madonna’s Maverick Records signed her on and released Jagged Little Pill.The album has become such a classic that it spawned two re-rel...
Born in Belleville and raised in Napanee, Ontario, Avril Lavigne was only 14 when she won a radio competition and got to perform with Shania Twain in front of 20,000 people. The next year, she landed a record deal and at the age of 17 in 2002, she released her debut album, Let Go, which would become the best-selling album of the 21st century by a C...
Considering how many people claim they hate Nickelback, the band’s members are doing quite well for themselves, thank you very much. Ryan Peake isn’t even the leader of the band, and he’s made it onto our list of the top richest Canadian-born musicians. He was born in Brooks, Alberta and grew up some 130 km to the north in Hanna, where he met Chad ...
Think of celebrities rocking the Canadian tuxedo through the years, and chances are that an image of Bryan Adams pops into your head. Born in Kingston and raised in Ottawa and North Vancouver, the rocker bought his first guitar when he was 12. He dropped out of school to play in a band and used his college fund to buy a grand piano. His first three...
Singer and guitarist (and former Mr. Avril Lavigne) Chad Kroeger was born and raised in Hanna, Alberta. In 1995 he co-founded Nickelback with his brother Mike, their cousin Brandon and their friend Ryan Peake. While Brandon was later replaced by Daniel Adair, the band is still going strong. Chad also plays in another band, The Suits XL, and has col...
It took a Canadian to help make the Great American Songbook popular again. Born and raised in Burnaby, BC, young Michael Bublé originally wanted to play professionally for the Vancouver Canucks. His musical talents won in the end, though. Initially he sang wherever he got a paying gig, did some acting and released three indie albums. He later convi...
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- Carson Daly. Carson Daly originally wanted to be a pro golfer, attending Loyola Marymount University in L.A. on a golfing scholarship. However, he ended up dropping out to intern at a radio station for Jimmy Kimmel.
- Hoda Kotb. Kotb started out as an anchor and reporter in the early 1990s, working for stations in New Orleans and Fort Myers, Florida. She joined NBC News in 1998 as a correspondent for Dateline, and covered a variety of topics during this time, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and the War on Terror in Afghanistan.
- Sheinelle Jones. After graduating from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Sheinelle Jones kicked off her career as a morning anchor and reporter for WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois.
- Jenna Bush Hager. Jenna Bush Hager is the daughter of former President George W. Bush. In 2004, she graduated with an English degree and began her career as an elementary school teacher in Washington, D.C.
Mayersberg wrote the 1976 classic “The Man who Fell to Earth,” starring David Bowie. In addition to writing, he’s also directed several films, including “The Last Samurai.” Interview
Paul Mayersberg. Paul Mayersberg started as a film critic, worked as an assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville, Joseph Losey, and Roger Corman, and became the screenwriter of The Man Who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Eureka, and Croupier. He is the author of Hollywood: The Haunted House and a novel, Homme Fatale.
