Peter Pringle
| Peter Pringle | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 7, 1945 Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Genres | pop, jazz, classical |
| Instruments | vocals, piano, theremin |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Website | peterpringle |
Peter Pringle (born September 7, 1945 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician and television personality, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s.
He began performing at age six in the children's choir of the Canadian Opera Company. He later studied a variety of classical instruments, including lute, sitar and surbahar, financing his studies by writing pop songs. Several of his songs were recorded by Anne Murray, for whom he also performed as a backing vocalist.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1975, and released his self-titled debut album the following year. He then moved to Montreal in 1980, and continued to record pop songs in both English and French. He is a two-time Juno Award nominee for Most Promising Male Vocalist, at the Juno Awards of 1978 and the Juno Awards of 1982.
In 1985, he participated in the recording of "Les Yeux de la faim", a French-language charity single for the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia, alongside musicians such as René Simard, Nathalie Simard, André Gagnon, Yvon Deschamps, Gilles Vigneault, Nanette Workman and Patsy Gallant, and in 1986 he was one of the performers at Canada's first major benefit concert for HIV/AIDS, alongside Michel Louvain, Joe Bocan, Denny Christianson and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
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