He appeared in the 2008 film, One Week, as a pot-smoking, recovering cancer patient.Ī news conference on Downie's condition will be held at a Toronto hospital later today. Downie's sweaty, improvised dance moves and ad libbed poetry are pretty legend up here.ĭownie has also produced three solo albums (listen to " Chancellor"), an album with The Sadies and wrote the one book of poetry that you're most likely to find on the bookshelves of Canadians under 50. (This, of course, was a large addition to Canada's ever-growing mix of insecurity and pride in its place in the world.)Ī staple of CanCon rock radio, it was the stage where the band really made their mark. KINGSTON, Ontario (AP) Gord Downie, who made himself part of Canada’s national identity with songs about hockey and small towns as lead singer and songwriter of iconic rock band The Tragically Hip, has died at age 53 after a battle with brain cancer. They were inarguably the most successful act to come out of 1990s alternative scene in Canada, although the Hip never quite managed to garner much of an international fan base. clothing items, a stick used during the 1989 Stanley Cup finals. The Kingston, Ontario band formed in 1983 and has had eight albums hit number one in Canada. So, when I heard that my friend Gord Downie was facing the biggest challenge of his. Downie's evocative, if often inscrutable, lyrics, have drawn inspiration from Canadian stories in the way few popular acts have in this country, mythologizing dead hockey players like Bill Barilko, for example. The Hip have long-occupied the space of the definitive Only in Canada Band, being a guaranteed part of the soundtrack of bush parties and hockey arenas since their 1989 debut, Up to Here. Gord Downie, the lead singer for the beloved Canadian alt-rock band the Tragically Hip, died Tuesday at the age of 53. The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as the Hip, were a Canadian rock band formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984, consisting of vocalist Gord Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker until 1994), bassist Gord Sinclair, and drummer Johnny Fay.
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