Yank Barry
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| Born |
Gerald Barry Falovitch 29 January 1948 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian (also a citizen of the Bahamas) |
| Occupation | Musician, founder and CEO of VitaPro, and founder Global Village Champions Foundation |
| Spouse(s) | Yvette Barry |
Yank Barry (born 29 January 1948 as Gerald Barry Falovitch) is a Canadian businessman and musician. He is the founder and CEO of VitaPro Foods, a company that makes textured vegetable protein for use as a meat substitute and an apple pectin product called ProPectin, and is the founder of the charity Global Village Champions Foundation.
Barry was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1948 to Arthur Falovitch and Ruth (née Reznick) Falovitch-Pickholtz. He grew up in the Jewish community of Montreal and had five siblings.
Barry was singer and bass player of a band called The Footprints during 1966–68. The band released three singles through Columbia and Capitol Records before disbanding.
Between 1968 and 1970, Barry was the lead singer of a band that toured the East Coast as "The Kingsmen" and played The Kingsmen's music. This version of the band was put together by the Kingsmen's management, who believed they owned the rights to the name, and it toured until being disbanded after a cease and desist order was filed by the original group.
In 1971 he recorded a rock opera entitled The Diary of Mr. Gray.
In 1972, Barry ran a record company.
Barry wrote the song "Christmas Time Again" that was performed by Engelbert Humperdinck on his 1977 album Christmas Tyme.
In 1979, he produced performances of the 1974 explicit musical play Let My People Come, in Montreal.
Barry is the CEO of VitaPro Foods Inc. It sells textured vegetable protein soy-based meat substitutes, primarily to prisons and other institutional feeding operations.
According to an investigative report by the Montreal Gazette from October 1998, Global Village Market (GVM) was a venture owned by Barry through which he sold VitaPro. The company's motto was "doing well by doing good". According to a report by UPI, GVM’s shares were listed on the World Investors' Stock Exchange, which was part of an investment fraud carried out by the Caribbean-based First International Bank of Grenada.
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