Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada on January 8th, 1964 and is the Folk Singer. At the age of 60, Ron Sexsmith biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith (born 8 January 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario.
At the 2002 Juno Awards, he was the year's best songwriter.
At the age of 21, he began releasing recordings of his own works in 1985 and has since released fifteen albums.
Love Shines, a 2010 documentary about him.
Early life
When Sexsmith was 14 years old, he began to live in St. Catharines and formed his own band.
Personal life
With his common-law partner, Jocelyne, Sexsmith has two children (Christopher and Evelyne). In 2001, the couple's fifteen-year relationship came to an end.
Colleen Hixenbaugh, Sexsmith's wife, is also a performer. She is a member of By Divine Right, half of the duo Jack and Ginger, and the duo Colleen and Paul with Paul Linklater.
Career
In his hometown, Sexsmith was seventeen when he first started playing at the Lion's Tavern. He is best known for his ability in performing orders. However, he gradually began to perform original songs and more obscure music, which his audience did not like. Since the birth of his first child in 1985, he began writing songs. He and a singer-songwriter friend, Claudio, worked on recording and releasing Out of the Duff, a cassette. On one of the cassettes, five songs by Sexsmith was recorded and performed by him; on the other hand, Claudio was included.
Sexsmith and his family migrated to Toronto, where they lived in an apartment in the Beaches neighborhood a year ago. The full-length cassette There's a Way, which was produced by Kurt Swinghammer, was recorded and released by Sexsmith. Meanwhile, he worked as a courier and befriended Bob Wiseman, whom he met on an open stage. They became friends, and Wiseman promised to produce and arrange Sexsmith's next release in between his tours with the band Blue Rodeo. The album's production took years due to Wiseman's busy schedule.
Since the album Grand Opera Lane was rejected by several Canadian labels, the pair reissued it independently in 1991. "Ron Sexsmith and the Uncool" was credited to Grand Opera Lane, as the backing band included Don Kerr and Steve Charles, as well as Sarah McElcheran (horn arrangements) and Kim Ratcliffe on electric guitar. Sexsmith received a deal that culminated in his self-titled album in 1995, and the song "Speaking with the Angel" captured attention. Elvis Costello, for whom Sexsmith later opened, lauded the work.
Sexsmith released three more albums between 1997 and 2001, as well as Cobblestone Runway in 2002. Retriever, Elliott Smith's forthcoming album, is a more pop-oriented collection dedicated to him and Johnny Cash. In support of these albums, Sexsmith performed in the Toronto area.
On the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland's musical showcase, Sexsmith performed "Just My Heart Talkin'" on May 1, 2001.Arie, R.E.M., Orbital, India, and Clearlake appeared on May 1st. He was backed on piano by Holland. It was his second appearance on the program. He began to have some radio success, particularly on Canadian adult-oriented radio.
Sexsmith produced a cover version of "This Is Where I Belong," the title track on a tribute album titled "This Is Where I Belong – The Songs of Ray Davies and the Kinks," which featured works from Damon Albarn, Bebel Gilberto, and Queens of the Stone Age, among others. He appeared at the Halifax Pop Explosion in 2006. He appeared at RuhrTriennale in Bill Frisell's concert series Century of Songs.
At the Meltdown Festival in London, England, Sexsmith and his band performed "Misfits" by Ray Davies on June 16th. He received the Juno Award for "Whatever It Takes" and a Canadian Indy Award the same year. The album Late Bloomer was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. Carousel One, Sexsmith's 14th full-length album, was released in March 2015.
Sexsmith's debut book, Deer Life, was published by Dundurn Press in 2017. It was well-reced, and Publishers Weekly reported that the "novel has much the same effect as his music, bringing fearlessness and heart to conveying mystery."
Sexsmith has collaborated with many artists. In 2002, he performed a duet with Coldplay's Chris Martin in the song "Gold in Them Hills," which debuted as a bonus track on the album Cobblestone Runway. "An Elephant Insect," on the 2003 Shonen Knife album Heavy Songs, Sexsmith performed on "An Elephant Insect." Destination Unknown, he released a set of songs recorded with drummer Don Kerr during the production of Retriever. Sexsmith performed on the track "Song No. 1" in 2005. Ane Brun, a Norwegian singer-songwriter, appeared on her album Atemporary Dive and then on her Duets album later this year. He appeared on "So Long Marianne" with Leonard Cohen in Yorkville, Toronto, in 2006. In 2014, he wrote and performed a duet with Dutch singer-songwriter Marike Jager titled "Don't You" on her album The Silent Song.
A number of well-known musicians, including Elvis Costello, Feist, Rod Stewart, and Emmylou Harris have performed and recorded Sexsmith's "Secret Heart" on their website. Also, Nick Lowe and Peter Lowe have covered his album "Secret Heart." "Brandy Alexander" by Sexsmith co-wrote with Feist, and Feist's "Exit Strategy of the Soul" and Feist's "Irma" appear on Sexsmith's Exit Strategy of the Soul and Feist's album The Reminder. On Michael Bublé's 2009 album Crazy Love, a recreation of Sexsmith's "Whatever It Takes" appeared.
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Sexsmith appeared on "Liberace," a track from Canadian rapper D-Sisive's album Vaindeville. "Gold in They Hills," Russell Melua's album Secret Symphony, was released in 2012, and "Right About Now" was covered by Mari Wilson on the album "Cover Stories."
Sexsmith appeared on Lowe Country: The Songs of Nick Lowe, a Nick Lowe tribute album, where he covered Lowe's 1994 album "Where's My Everything."
On a song from Ryan Granville-Martin's 2013 album, Mouthparts and Wings, the lead vocalist sings.
Sexsmith was featured on vocals on Mel Parsons' song "Don't Wait" from her 2015 album Drylands.
On September 16, 2017, Sexsmith published Deer Life, a book titled Deer Life. Sexsmith's own story told it as a "grown up fairy tale." It's the artist's first attempt at being an author.