Montreal's music scene

• Ashley King
• A-Trak
  A-Trak
  A-Trak is a Montreal-born DJ, turntablist, and owner of the record label Fool's Gold.- Career :...
  
  
• Aliceffekt
  Aliceffekt
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• A Silver Mt. Zion
  A Silver Mt. Zion
  Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra are a Canadian band which formed in 1999, originating from Montreal, Quebec...
  
  
• AIDS Wolf
  AIDS Wolf
  AIDS Wolf is a Canadian noise rock band, who debuted on Pasalymany tapes but are currently on Skin Graft Records and Lovepump United.-Name:According to singer Chloe Lum, the name "AIDS Wolf" comes from an urban legend wherein wolves carry AIDS and pass it to house pets who then pass it on to...
  
  
• All Day Dreamers
• Amy Millan
  Amy Millan
  Amy Millan is a Canadian indie rock singer and guitarist. She records and performs with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene as well as having a successful solo career. Her second solo album, Masters of the Burial, was released by Arts & Crafts Records in September 2009.- Early life :Amy Millan...
  
  
• Arcade fire
• Luba
  Luba (singer)
  Luba is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist. She was commercially active from 1980 to 1990, 2000 to 2001 and is active again from 2007 to present. She was initially the vocalist for a band named Luba before signing as a solo artist under the one-name moniker...
  
  
• April Wine
  April Wine
  April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969. According to the band, they chose the name 'April Wine' simply because members thought the two words sounded good together...
  
  
• Aldo Nova
  Aldo Nova
  Aldo Nova is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and producer, Nova gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1981, and its accompanying single "Fantasy", which climbed to #23 on the Billboard Hot 100.-Career:Signing with Portrait Records, Nova released a self-produced...
  
  
• Andy Kim
  Andy Kim
  Andrew Youakim, performing as Andy Kim, is a Lebanese Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Kim is known for a number of hit singles that he released in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as "Rock Me Gently", which topped the US singles charts. In 1968,...
  
  
• Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
  
  
• France Joli
  France Joli
  France Joli is a Canadian singer, born 1963, who is best known for the disco classic "Come to Me."-Teen stardom:A native of Montreal, Quebec, Joli grew up in the Montreal suburb of Dorion...
  
  
• Toulouse
  Toulouse
  Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  
• Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  
• Corey Hart
• The Box
  The Box (band)
  The Box is a Canadian New Wave group from Montreal. Founded in 1981, they achieved commercial success in Canada, recording four charting albums and 10 charting singles between 1984 and 1990. The group broke up in 1992, but a new lineup of the band was founded in 2002...
  
  
• Arcade Fire
• Bell Orchestre
  Bell Orchestre
  Bell Orchestre is a six-piece instrumental band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.In late 2003, they recorded their first album, at the same time and in the same studio that Arcade Fire recorded Funeral. However, Arcade Fire's popularity was just beginning to break when they asked Bell Orchestre to...
  
  
• Broken social scene
• The Besnard Lakes
  The Besnard Lakes
  The Besnard Lakes are a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Formed in 2003 by the husband and wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, two of their three albums have been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize.-History:...
  
  
• Champion
  Champion (musician)
  Maxime Morin , is a multi-instrumentalist, better known for his work in electronic music under the moniker DJ Champion or simply Champion. Morin is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Early music career:...
  
  
• Chomp, Chomp, Attack!
• Chromeo
  Chromeo
  Chromeo is an electrofunk duo formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2004.-History:Chromeo is composed of P-Thugg on keyboards, synthesizers, and talk box, and Dave 1 on guitar and lead vocals...
  
  
• Code Pie
  Code Pie
  Code Pie is a Canadian indie rock band founded in 2002 in Montreal by singer and guitarist Enzo Palermo. Other band members are Salvatore Ciolfi , Michel Semienchuk , Vince Varano , Eva Boodman and Rebecca Lessard .-History:Code Pie began with a series of home recordings by singer Enzo Palermo in...
  
  
• Coeur de Pirate
  Béatrice Martin
  Cœur de pirate is the stage name for Béatrice Martin , a Quebecois pop singer-songwriter from Quebec. She mainly sings in French.-Career:...
  
  
• Xavier Constantin
• The Dears
  The Dears
  -History:The band formed in 1995 and released their first album, End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, in 2000. Their orchestral, dark pop sound and dramatic live shows cemented The Dears at the foundation of the then-emerging Canadian indie renaissance...
  
  
• Dee
  Dee (singer)
  Dee is an electro-pop dance-rock Canadian singer, songwriter, disc jockey, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and remixer....
  
  
• Desert States
• Despised Icon
  Despised Icon
  Despised Icon was a Canadian deathcore band from Montreal, Quebec. Formed in 2002, the band is notable for the use of two vocalists; Alexandre Erian, takes use of a mid-range screaming technique, and Steve Marois for the low growling vocals, and high pitched screamed vocals...
  
  
• Destaël
• dovVsky
• Duchess Says
  Duchess Says
  Duchess Says is a Canadian punk band from Montreal. The band, formed in late 2003, describes its own genre as "moog rock".The band consists of vocalist and guitarist Annie-Claude Deschênes, keyboardist and guitarist Ismael Tremblay, guitarist and bassist Philippe Clément and percussionist Simon...
  
  
• Peter Elkas
  Peter Elkas
  Peter Elkas is a Canadian singer-songwriter, signed to MapleMusic Recordings. He spent twelve years as part of the Montreal band Local Rabbits, with whom he started playing as a teenager...
  
  
• Les Georges Leningrad
  Les Georges Leningrad
  Les Georges Leningrad are a rock band from Montreal, Québec.The band originally consisted of four members, although they were reduced to a trio with the departure of bassist Toundra LaLouve after their first album was released....
  
  
• General Dissairay
• Ghislain Poirier
  Ghislain Poirier
  Poirier is a DJ/producer from Montreal who is signed to the Ninja Tune record label. He has, however, also worked with other labels such as Chocolate Industries, Rebondir, Shockout, Musique Large, Intr_version and 12k. His work mainly consists of original instrumental mixes and mixes featuring...
  
  
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock band which originated from Montreal, Quebec in 1994...
  
  
• Grimskunk
• Carl Henry
  Carl Henry
  Carl Henry is a Jamaican-born R&B singer, who was raised in Montreal, Canada.His debut album, entitled RNB, garnered him his first Juno nomination for Best R&B/Soul recording of the Year...
  
  
• Islands
  Islands (band)
  Islands is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York.-Return to the Sea:In mid-2005 Islands recorded a debut album titled Return to the Sea, which was released in April 2006...
  
  
• Ion Dissonance
  Ion Dissonance
  Ion Dissonance is a Canadian mathcore/deathcore band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They're known for their technical mathcore style but changed to a more heavy, groove based style with the release of their 2007 album Minus the Herd.-History:...
  
  
• Nikole Kaye
• Land of Talk
  Land of Talk
  Land of Talk is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2006 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band consists of singer and guitarist Elizabeth Powell, bass guitarist Joseph Yarmush and drummer Andrew Barr.-History:...
  
  
• Lesbians on Ecstasy
  Lesbians on Ecstasy
  Lesbians on Ecstasy is an electronic band from Montreal, Quebec.The band toured across Canada and the U.S. with Le Tigre before the release of their first recording.The first album, the self-titled Lesbians on Ecstasy was released on October 26, 2004...
  
  
• The Local Rabbits
• The Lovely Feathers
  The Lovely Feathers
  The Lovely Feathers are a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2004 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band toured with Metric in late 2005. Their first release was an independent release titled My Best Friend Daniel. Their second album , Hind Hind Legs, was released on April 18, 2006 by Equator...
  
  
• The Luyas
  The Luyas
  The Luyas are a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2006 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-History:The Luyas did their first live performance in December 2006...
  
  
• M.O.
• Malajube
  Malajube
  Malajube is a francophone indie rock band based in Montreal. The band has three albums out on Dare to Care Records.-History:Formed by a group of friends in Montreal, the band made itself known in 2004 with the release of its first album, Le Compte complet. Critics welcomed the disc with positive...
  
  
• Melissa Auf der Maur
  Melissa Auf der Maur
  Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian rock musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds, was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a...
  
  
• Miguel Graca
• Misteur Valaire
• The New Cities
  The New Cities
  The New Cities is a Juno Award and ADISQ Award nominated band originating from Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada and currently based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The current members of The New Cities are David Brown, Christian Bergeron, Nicolas Denis, Francis Fugere, Philippe Lachance, and Julien...
  
  
• Paisley Wilde
• Patrick Watson
• Paul Cargnello
  Paul Cargnello
  Paul Cargnello is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet whose unique musical repertoire spans punk rock, reggae, blues and folk. Although English is his first language, Cargnello chooses to write and sing in both English and French, with French having gradually come to dominate his lyrics...
  
  
• Plants and Animals
  Plants and Animals
  Plants and Animals are a Canadian indie-rock band from Montreal which comprises guitarist-vocalists Warren Spicer and Nic Basque and drummer-vocalist Matthew Woody Woodley. They often describe their music as post-classic rock. They are signed to Secret City Records...
  
  
• Puggy Hammer
• Sam Roberts
  Sam Roberts
  Sam Roberts is a Juno Award-winning Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose 2001 debut release, The Inhuman Condition, became one of the bestselling independent releases in Quebec and Canadian music history.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Transcend
  Transcend
  Transcend Information, Inc. is a Taiwanese company that manufactures and distributes of memory products headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Transcend's product portfolio consists of over 2,000 devices including memory modules, flash memory cards, USB flash drives, digital audio players, Portable...
  
  
• Teanose
• Stars
• The Stills
  The Stills
  The Stills were a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 2000. The band consists of Tim Fletcher , Dave Hamelin , Olivier Corbeil , and Liam O'Neil , Gregory Paquet .-History:The band members have known each other since the age of...
  
  
• Star Hunters
• Les Stups
  Les Stups
  Les Stups is a mostly francophone alternative rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that has formed in 1989.Since their beginnings, we have seen Les Stups and their self-categorized Heavy Plastic on various scenes in the city of Montreal , but also in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario...
  
  
• suburban lame kids
• Sunset Rubdown
  Sunset Rubdown
  Sunset Rubdown is an art rock band from Montreal, Canada. The band began as a solo project for Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, who released his debut, Snake's Got a Leg, in early 2005...
  
  
• Tegan and Sara
• Torngat
  Torngat
  Torngat is a Montreal indie band and instrumental trio established in 2001.-Biography:Torngat's popularity increased with the 2005 release of their EP La Rouge. During the spring of 2006 and after increasing demand, Torngat toured Eastern Canada. Torngat signed a two-album deal with Montreal...
  
  
• Tricot Machine
• The Unicorns
  The Unicorns
  The Unicorns were a Lo-Fi/Indie Pop band from Montreal, Canada formed in December 2000 by Nicholas Thorburn and Alden Penner , who were later joined by Jamie Thompson in December 2003.-History:...
  
  
• David Usher
  David Usher
  David Usher is a British-born Canadian singer-songwriter. Formerly the frontman for the alternative rock band Moist, he embarked on a solo career beginning in the late 1990s.-Biography:...
  
  
• We Are Wolves
  We Are Wolves
  We Are Wolves are a Quebec indie rock band, based in Montreal, consisting of vocalist and bassist Alexander Ortiz, keyboardist/backing vocalist Vincent Levesque and drummer/vocalist Antonin Marquis. The band released their debut album, Non-Stop Je Te Plie en Deux with Fat Possum Records, in 2005...
  
  
• Wolf Parade
  Wolf Parade
  Wolf Parade is an indie rock band formed in 2003 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band is currently on an indefinite hiatus as of May 31, 2011.-History:...
  
  
• Velvet Trench Vibes
• Young Galaxy
  Young Galaxy
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Montreal's historic music scene

• Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr, Jazz musician icon saxophone, flute, clarinet (formerly Russell Thomas)
• Nasyr Abdul Al-Khabyyr, Drummer, Composer/Arranger
• Muhammad Abdul Al-Khabyyr, Trombonist, Composer/Arranger
• April Wine
  April Wine
  April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969. According to the band, they chose the name 'April Wine' simply because members thought the two words sounded good together...
  
  , Rock band
• Bootsauce
  Bootsauce
  Bootsauce was a Canadian rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec in 1989 composed of Drew Ling , Pere Fume , Sonny Greenwich Jr. , Alan Baculis , and John “Fatboy” Lalley...
  
  , Rock band
• Charlie Biddle
  Charlie Biddle
  Charlie Biddle, otherwise known as Charles Reed Biddle was a Canadian jazz bassist.-Biography:...
  
  , Jazz bassist
• The Box
  The Box (band)
  The Box is a Canadian New Wave group from Montreal. Founded in 1981, they achieved commercial success in Canada, recording four charting albums and 10 charting singles between 1984 and 1990. The group broke up in 1992, but a new lineup of the band was founded in 2002...
  
  , Rock band
• Gregory Charles
  Gregory Charles
  Gregory Charles is a Quebec performing artist of French Canadian and Trinidadian origin.-Biography:...
  
  , Singer/entertainer
• Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  , Poet and singer
• Celine Dion
  Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
  
  , Pop Singer
• Despised Icon
  Despised Icon
  Despised Icon was a Canadian deathcore band from Montreal, Quebec. Formed in 2002, the band is notable for the use of two vocalists; Alexandre Erian, takes use of a mid-range screaming technique, and Steve Marois for the low growling vocals, and high pitched screamed vocals...
  
  , Deathcore band
• Patsy Gallant
  Patsy Gallant
  Patsy Gallant is a Canadian pop singer and musical theatre actress. Of Acadian ancestry, she has recorded and performed in both English and French.-Successful beginnings in French :...
  
  , Pop Singer
• Harmonium
  Harmonium (band)
  Harmonium was a Canadian progressive rock band from Montreal, Quebec.-History:Lead vocalist and guitarist Serge Fiori met Michel Normandeau in a theatre music meeting on November 1972. Later on in 1973 they met bassist Louis Valois and became Harmonium. In November 1973 the group performed their...
  
  , Progressive Rock band
• Corey Hart, Singer/songwriter
• Steve Holt
  Steve Holt (Canadian musician)
  Steve Holt is a Canadian musician.Steve Holt exhibited musical ability in early childhood, playing piano at the age of four. In 1960 his family moved to Cote St. Luc and during these formative years he spent long hours at the piano. By the time he was a teenager, Holt was a regular on the Montreal...
  
   Jazz pianist and composer, AC Singer/songwriter
• Norman Iceberg
  Norman Iceberg
  Norman Joseph Bédard , also known by the former stage names Norman Iceberg and Norman Joseph, is a Canadian singer-songwriter.- Early years: Performing as Norman Iceberg :...
  
  , Singer/songwriter
• France Joli
  France Joli
  France Joli is a Canadian singer, born 1963, who is best known for the disco classic "Come to Me."-Teen stardom:A native of Montreal, Quebec, Joli grew up in the Montreal suburb of Dorion...
  
  , Disco Singer
• Oliver Jones, Jazz pianist
• Sass Jordan
  Sass Jordan
  Sarah "Sass" Jordan is a Canadian, Juno Award winning, rock singer/songwriter who grew up in Montreal.- Biography :...
  
  , Rock singer/and currently Canadian Idol
  Canadian Idol
  Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons...
  
   judge
• Andy Kim
  Andy Kim
  Andrew Youakim, performing as Andy Kim, is a Lebanese Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Kim is known for a number of hit singles that he released in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as "Rock Me Gently", which topped the US singles charts. In 1968,...
  
  , Singer/songwriter
• Ranee Lee
  Ranee Lee
  Ranee Lee, CM is a Canadian jazz vocalist and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec.Lee toured North America in the 1970s as a jazz drummer and tenor saxophonist. She subsequently landed a starring role playing Billie Holiday in Lady Day, and won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance...
  
  , Jazz singer
• Lime (band)
  Lime (band)
  Lime was a synth-pop group from Montréal, Canada, during the 1980s. The group was composed of husband and wife Denis and Denyse LePage, although two younger and more attractive singers, Joy Dorris and Chris Marsh, were chosen to tour and appear as the act. They are most noted for their songs "Angel...
  
  , Disco band
• Nancy Martinez
  Nancy Martinez
  Nancy Martinez is an international dance-pop music artist who is primarily known for her 1986 hits "For Tonight" and "Move Out".-History:...
  
  , Rhythmic Adance Asinger

• Me Mom & Morgentaler, ska
  Ska
  Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
  
   band
• Men Without Hats
  Men Without Hats
  Men Without Hats is a Canadian New Wave group from Montreal, Quebec. Their music was characterized by the distinctive baritone voice of their lead singer Ivan Doroschuk as well as their elaborate use of synthesizers and electronic processing...
  
  , New Wave band
• Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
  Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
  The Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir is a choir from Montreal, Quebec, Canada that sings primarily Gospel music.- Musical career :The choir was founded and directed by Trevor W. Payne in 1982 and gave its first performance at the St. James United Church in Montreal. The first members primarily...
  
  , Founder and director Trevor W. Payne
• Aldo Nova
  Aldo Nova
  Aldo Nova is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and producer, Nova gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1981, and its accompanying single "Fantasy", which climbed to #23 on the Billboard Hot 100.-Career:Signing with Portrait Records, Nova released a self-produced...
  
  , Rock singer
• Trevor W. Payne
  Trevor W. Payne
  Trevor Winston Payne, CM, is a Canadian musician and member of the Order of Canada .He was born in Black Rock, Barbados, on the 21 December 1948. He became a Canadian citizen in 1982, the country he moved to in 1958. He and his family landed in the city of Montreal where he still resides today...
  
  , Music teacher, Founder and music director Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
• Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
  
  , Jazz pianist
• Paisley Wilde, Rock band
• Rational Youth
  Rational Youth
  Rational Youth is a Canadian New Wave band, originally formed in 1981 in Montreal, Quebec, by synthesizer wizards Tracy Howe, former singer and drummer for Montreal punk band "The Normals", and Bill Vorn, both of whom idolized the German synthpop pioneers Kraftwerk.Among the band's notable singles...
  
  , New Wave band
• Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She is known by the nickname .Born as Ginette Reynault in Montreal, Quebec, she played the role of Maria Barberini in the independent film Mambo Italiano and played the mother in Léolo.She has recorded in both...
  
  , Singer/songwriter/actress
• William Shatner
  William Shatner
  William Alan Shatner is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T...
  
  , Singer/actor
• David Usher
  David Usher
  David Usher is a British-born Canadian singer-songwriter. Formerly the frontman for the alternative rock band Moist, he embarked on a solo career beginning in the late 1990s.-Biography:...
  
  , Singer/songwriter
• Gino Vannelli
  Gino Vannelli
  Gino Vannelli is an Italian-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician and composer.-Early years:Born in Montreal, Quebec, Vannelli is one of three sons born to Russ and Delia Vannelli. Russ, his father, was a big band musician. As a child, Gino's greatest passion was music, and he began playing...
  
  , Italian Canadian singer/songwriter
• Roch Voisine
  Roch Voisine
  Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC better known as Roch Voisine, is a Canadian Acadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host...
  
  , French/English singer/songwriter
• Martha Wainwright
  Martha Wainwright
  Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle...
  
  , Singer/songwriter, sister to Rufus.
• Rufus Wainwright
  Rufus Wainwright
  Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...
  
  , Singer/songwriter, brother to Martha.
• Oen Sujet, Experimental Art-Pop band

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• AIDS Wolf
  AIDS Wolf
  AIDS Wolf is a Canadian noise rock band, who debuted on Pasalymany tapes but are currently on Skin Graft Records and Lovepump United.-Name:According to singer Chloe Lum, the name "AIDS Wolf" comes from an urban legend wherein wolves carry AIDS and pass it to house pets who then pass it on to...
  
  , rock band
• Aliceffekt
  Aliceffekt
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  , 8bit Experimental songwriter
• Amanda Mabro
  Amanda Mabro
  Amanda Mabro is a singer-songwriter in the Montreal music scene in Montreal, Quebec. Mabro's band consists of her longtime musical collaborator and producer, Rick Coluccio Amanda Mabro (born April 30, 1980, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a singer-songwriter in the Montreal music scene in Montreal,...
  
  , cabaret singer-songwriter
• Amon Tobin
  Amon Tobin
  Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin , known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian musician, composer and producer of electronic music. He is described as a virtuoso sound designer and is considered to be one of the most influential electronic music artists in the world...
  
  
• Amir Zerrougui, singer-songwriter
• Arcade Fire, rock band
• Melissa Auf der Maur
  Melissa Auf der Maur
  Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian rock musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds, was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a...
  
  , rock bassist
• Ashley King, singer - songwriter

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• Bell Orchestre
  Bell Orchestre
  Bell Orchestre is a six-piece instrumental band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.In late 2003, they recorded their first album, at the same time and in the same studio that Arcade Fire recorded Funeral. However, Arcade Fire's popularity was just beginning to break when they asked Bell Orchestre to...
  
  , instrumental band
• Charlie Biddle
  Charlie Biddle
  Charlie Biddle, otherwise known as Charles Reed Biddle was a Canadian jazz bassist.-Biography:...
  
  , jazz bassist
• Bless
  Bless (rapper)
  Bless is a hip-hop artist from Montreal, Canada.-Early career:Bless was a B-boy at the young age of eight showing his dope hip hop roots. He quickly started trying to write rhymes and by the age of 12 he was demoing tracks in studios...
  
  , hip-hop artist
• Bootsauce
  Bootsauce
  Bootsauce was a Canadian rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec in 1989 composed of Drew Ling , Pere Fume , Sonny Greenwich Jr. , Alan Baculis , and John “Fatboy” Lalley...
  
  , rock band
• Tim Brady, guitarist/composer
• Braids
  Braids (band)
  Braids is an art rock band from Calgary, Alberta and presently based in Montreal, Quebec. Braids consists of Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Katie Lee, Austin Tufts and Taylor Smith. The band members met at a young age and began collaborating in high school...
  
  , art-rock band
• Edwin Orion Brownell
  Edwin Orion Brownell
  Edwin Orion Brownell was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is a neo-classical composer and concert pianist whose original music has been described as highly melodic; a strong blues influence upon a solid classical foundation.-History:...
  
  , pianist/vocalist
• Win Butler
  Win Butler
  Win Butler is the lead vocalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and his brother William Butler are both members of the band.-Life and career:...
  
  , singer/songwriter

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• Paul Cargnello
  Paul Cargnello
  Paul Cargnello is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet whose unique musical repertoire spans punk rock, reggae, blues and folk. Although English is his first language, Cargnello chooses to write and sing in both English and French, with French having gradually come to dominate his lyrics...
  
  , musician,singer/songwriter
• Robert Charlebois
  Robert Charlebois
  Robert Charlebois, OC, OQ is a Quebec author, composer, musician, performer and actor. He is an important figure in French language song....
  
  , singer/songwriter
• Gregory Charles
  Gregory Charles
  Gregory Charles is a Quebec performing artist of French Canadian and Trinidadian origin.-Biography:...
  
  , musician and radio host
• Régine Chassagne
  Régine Chassagne
  Régine Chassagne is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist musician and singer, and a founding member of the band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler.-Life and career:...
  
  , singer, musician
• Chromeo
  Chromeo
  Chromeo is an electrofunk duo formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2004.-History:Chromeo is composed of P-Thugg on keyboards, synthesizers, and talk box, and Dave 1 on guitar and lead vocals...
  
  
• Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  , poet and singer
• Corneille
  Corneille (singer)
  Cornelius Nyungura is a singer who performs under the name Corneille. He was born in Germany to Rwandan parents, though he currently holds a Canadian passport and sings in French and English...
  
  , singer
• Crila, singer/songwriter Glam Daddy
• CPC Gangbangs
  CPC Gangbangs
  CPC Gangbangs were a Montreal, Quebec-based garage punk band, with members of Les Sexareenos , The Spaceshits , Lyle Sheraton and the Daylight Lovers , Grime, and Milky Ways. The group's debut LP “Mutilation Nation” was released in 2007 on Swami Records...
  
  , garage punk band
• Xavier Constantin, singer/songwriter

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• The Dalhousie Sisters, Southerncore, hard rock band
• Danzdma, Electro-pop, experimental, oriental, singer/songwriter
• The Dears
  The Dears
  -History:The band formed in 1995 and released their first album, End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, in 2000. Their orchestral, dark pop sound and dramatic live shows cemented The Dears at the foundation of the then-emerging Canadian indie renaissance...
  
  , rock band
• Françoise de Clossey
  Françoise de Clossey
  - Biography :Françoise de Clossey has to her credit firsts, among which are the world premiere of a work of Henryk Górecki, the first North American performances of works by Salvatore Sciarrino and Sofia Gubaidulina, and the first worldwide perrformances of the Italian composers Frisina and...
  
  , pianist and organist
• DEE
  Dee (singer)
  Dee is an electro-pop dance-rock Canadian singer, songwriter, disc jockey, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and remixer....
  
  , pop singer/songwriter
• Destaël, Experimental rock band
• Destroyalldreamers
  Destroyalldreamers
  Destroyalldreamers was a four-piece instrumental shoegaze band based in Montreal, Canada consisting of guitarists Eric Quach and Mathieu Grisé, drummer Shaun Doré and former bassist Michèle Martin. Their sound has often been described as a mix of classic '90's shoegazing with Godspeed You! Black...
  
  , shoegaze band
• Sara Diamond R&B, Pop, Jazz singer/songwriter
• Celine Dion
  Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
  
  , international singer/songwriter
• Glen Drover
  Glen Drover
  Glen Drover is a heavy metal guitarist from Missisauga, Ontario, Canada. He currently resides in MississaugaOntario. Drover is best known as the former lead guitarist in Megadeth and King Diamond, as well as his own band Eidolon, along with his brother Shawn Drover.-History:Glen Drover began...
  
  , guitarist for Megadeth
  Megadeth
  Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
  
  
• Shawn Drover
  Shawn Drover
  Shawn Drover is a Canadian drummer, best-known for his work with the heavy metal band Megadeth....
  
  , drummer for Megadeth
  Megadeth
  Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
  
  
• Disorder Electronica rock
• David Kristian
  David Kristian
  David Kristian is a Canadian musician and film score composer and sound designer.David Kristian has been involved in audio for media since the early 1980s, when he first started work as an animation and experimental filmmaker at a New-Brunswick, Canada TV station...
  
   Electronic musician
• Despised Icon
  Despised Icon
  Despised Icon was a Canadian deathcore band from Montreal, Quebec. Formed in 2002, the band is notable for the use of two vocalists; Alexandre Erian, takes use of a mid-range screaming technique, and Steve Marois for the low growling vocals, and high pitched screamed vocals...
  
   Deathcore band
• DofS (Deadication Of Sufacation) Productions World composer

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• Les Georges Leningrad
  Les Georges Leningrad
  Les Georges Leningrad are a rock band from Montreal, Québec.The band originally consisted of four members, although they were reduced to a trio with the departure of bassist Toundra LaLouve after their first album was released....
  
  , rock band
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock band which originated from Montreal, Quebec in 1994...
  
  , rock band
• James Gelfand
  James Gelfand
  James Gelfand, is a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. He is best known for his film and television scores.-Early life:...
  
  , pianist, composer, arranger

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• Corey Hart, 80's rock singer
• Thomas Hellman
  Thomas Hellman
  Thomas Hellman is a French Canadian singer born in 1975 to a Texan father and French mother. After the success of his first album Stories from Oscar’s Old Café, he gained national acclaim with his French album L’Appartement on Justin Time Records, produced by noted Quebec producer Jean Massicotte...
  
  , pop singer
• Carl Henry
  Carl Henry
  Carl Henry is a Jamaican-born R&B singer, who was raised in Montreal, Canada.His debut album, entitled RNB, garnered him his first Juno nomination for Best R&B/Soul recording of the Year...
  
  , R and B singer
• Steve Holt
  Steve Holt (Canadian musician)
  Steve Holt is a Canadian musician.Steve Holt exhibited musical ability in early childhood, playing piano at the age of four. In 1960 his family moved to Cote St. Luc and during these formative years he spent long hours at the piano. By the time he was a teenager, Holt was a regular on the Montreal...
  
  , jazz pianist, AC singer-songwriter
• Handsome Furs
  Handsome Furs
  Handsome Furs is a Montreal-based indie rock duo which consists of Dan Boeckner, of Wolf Parade and Atlas Strategic, and his wife, writer Alexei Perry.-Music:...
  
  , rock band

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• Oliver Jones, jazz pianist
• Sass Jordan
  Sass Jordan
  Sarah "Sass" Jordan is a Canadian, Juno Award winning, rock singer/songwriter who grew up in Montreal.- Biography :...
  
  , rock singer, music critic
• Joe Roberts, rock singer

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• Franklin Kiermyer
  Franklin Kiermyer
  Franklin Kiermyer in Montréal, Canada, is a drummer/composer who came to prominence in the 1990s during his long residency in New York City. Kiermyer's work is inspired by a variety of spiritual musics including the late period of John Coltrane...
  
  , drummer/composer
• Kid Koala
  Kid Koala
  Eric San , who records under the name Kid Koala, is a Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and an author of graphic novels. He is signed to the British record label Ninja Tune, is a member of alternative hip hop supergroup Deltron 3030, and The Slew with Dynamite D and former members of the...
  
  , turntablist
• Andy Kim
  Andy Kim
  Andrew Youakim, performing as Andy Kim, is a Lebanese Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Kim is known for a number of hit singles that he released in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as "Rock Me Gently", which topped the US singles charts. In 1968,...
  
  , singer/songwriter
• Kerry Roebuck, clarinettist/conductor

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• Land of Talk
  Land of Talk
  Land of Talk is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2006 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band consists of singer and guitarist Elizabeth Powell, bass guitarist Joseph Yarmush and drummer Andrew Barr.-History:...
  
  , band
• Ranee Lee
  Ranee Lee
  Ranee Lee, CM is a Canadian jazz vocalist and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec.Lee toured North America in the 1970s as a jazz drummer and tenor saxophonist. She subsequently landed a starring role playing Billie Holiday in Lady Day, and won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance...
  
  , jazz singer
• Lesbians on Ecstasy
  Lesbians on Ecstasy
  Lesbians on Ecstasy is an electronic band from Montreal, Quebec.The band toured across Canada and the U.S. with Le Tigre before the release of their first recording.The first album, the self-titled Lesbians on Ecstasy was released on October 26, 2004...
  
  , band
• André Éric Létourneau
  André Éric Létourneau
  André Éric Létourneau is a French Canadian media and transmedia artist, author, musician, composer and curator based primarily in Montreal, Canada. He uses several pseudonyms, most notably François Quoirez and algojo)André Éric Létourneau (born September 25, 1967) is a French Canadian media and...
  
  , electronic musician
• Art Kall, singer/songwriter
• Liu Fang
  Liu Fang
  Liu Fang is one of the most prominent pipa players in the world. Born in Kunming in the Chinese province of Yunnan, she began playing the pipa at the age of 6. Her first solo public performance was at the age of 9. In 1986, at age 11, she played for Queen Elizabeth II...
  
  , musician

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• Ominous Monsta, Punk Rock Band
• Oen Sujet, electro-(acoustic) prog-art pop band
• Trevor W. Payne
  Trevor W. Payne
  Trevor Winston Payne, CM, is a Canadian musician and member of the Order of Canada .He was born in Black Rock, Barbados, on the 21 December 1948. He became a Canadian citizen in 1982, the country he moved to in 1958. He and his family landed in the city of Montreal where he still resides today...
  
  , music teacher, music director
• Wilfrid Pelletier
  Wilfrid Pelletier
  Joseph Louis Wilfrid Pelletier , CC was a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and arts administrator. He was instrumental in establishing the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, serving as the orchestra's first artistic director and conductor from 1935-1941...
  
  , symphony conductor
• Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
  
  , jazz pianist
• Priestess
  Priestess (band)
  Priestess is a Canadian stoner rock band formed in 2003 by Mikey Heppner , Mike Dyball , Vince Nudo , and Dan Watchorn .-Biography:...
  
  , a rock band

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• Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She is known by the nickname .Born as Ginette Reynault in Montreal, Quebec, she played the role of Maria Barberini in the independent film Mambo Italiano and played the mother in Léolo.She has recorded in both...
  
  , singer
• Sam Roberts
  Sam Roberts
  Sam Roberts is a Juno Award-winning Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose 2001 debut release, The Inhuman Condition, became one of the bestselling independent releases in Quebec and Canadian music history.-Life and career:...
  
  , singer-songwriter
• Randa, Jazz Singer
• Marco Rodi, bassist
• Andre Rodrigues, classical guitarist
• Roebuck, Kerry, conductor/clarinettist

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• Samsara
  Samsara
  thumb|right|200px|Traditional Tibetan painting or [[Thanka]] showing the [[wheel of life]] and realms of saṃsāraSaṅsāra or Saṃsāra , , literally meaning "continuous flow", is the cycle of birth, life, death, rebirth or reincarnation within Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön, Jainism, Sikhism, and other...
  
   ambient, instrumental, post-rock band
• Giancarlo Scalia
  Giancarlo Scalia
  Giancarlo Scalia is a Canadian pianist and composer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He began studying the piano and theory at the relatively late age of 10 with Paolo Vani at the McGill Conservatory of Music...
  
  , pianist and composer
• A Silver Mt. Zion
  A Silver Mt. Zion
  Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra are a Canadian band which formed in 1999, originating from Montreal, Quebec...
  
  , rock band
• Simple Plan
  Simple Plan
  Simple Plan is a Canadian pop punk band from Montréal, Québec. The band has had no line up changes since its inception in 1999. Members are Pierre Bouvier , Jeff Stinco , Sébastien Lefebvre , David Desrosiers and Chuck Comeau...
  
  , pop/rock band
• Silver Starling
  Silver Starling
  Silver Starling is an indie pop band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Biography:Silver Starling began as a project of Montreal-born singer-songwriter Marcus Paquin...
  
  , alternative band
• Wonny Song
  Wonny Song
  -See also:* Pianists* Canadian classical music* Young Concert Artists-External links:* * * * at Zankel Hall, from The New York Times...
  
   Classical concert pianist
• Tiga James Sontag, Electronic music
• St. Lawrence Choir
  St. Lawrence Choir
  Recognized across North America as one of Canada’s best choral ensembles, the 80-strong, mixed-voice performs music from the classical choral repertoire as well as contemporary works by Canadian and other composers. 2011-2012 marks the 40th anniversary season of the St. Lawrence Choir.Since 2008...
  
  , 80 voice choir
• Stars, pop band
• The Stills
  The Stills
  The Stills were a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 2000. The band consists of Tim Fletcher , Dave Hamelin , Olivier Corbeil , and Liam O'Neil , Gregory Paquet .-History:The band members have known each other since the age of...
  
  , rock band
• Sara Diamond
  Sara Diamond
  Sara Rose Diamond is an American sociologist and attorney, and the author of four books that "study and expose the agenda and tactics of the American political right wing." .-Biography:...
  
  , member of the Clique Girlz American girl group
• Stetie, Rani Composer, Songwriter, Producer
• Sweet Mother Logic, Instrumental Experimental Pop
• Robb Spencer, singer songwriter,recordist
• Star Hunters, rocket lux electro punk transmission
• Singing to myself, indie rock/pop rock duet

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• Alain Trudel
  Alain Trudel
  Alain Trudel is a Canadian musician, composer and conductor. He began his career playing the trombone, but has more recently turned to conducting....
  
  , conductor
• The Narcicyst
  The Narcicyst
  Yassin Alsalman, better known by his stage name The Narcicyst , is an Iraqi journalist and Hip Hop MC[1][2]. Originally from Basra, he was born and raised in Dubai.[2] Now settled in Montreal, Canada....
  
  , hip hop artist
• The Scotty Pippens, Electronic music
• Second Sun, Electronic music
• Tranzn, Electronic music
• The Hot Showers, Rock music

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• Van Did, electronic music producer
• Gino Vanelli, singer/songwriter
• The Vendettas, rock/reggae
• Roch Voisine
  Roch Voisine
  Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC better known as Roch Voisine, is a Canadian Acadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host...
  
  , singer
• Velvet Trench Vibes, Hip-hop band
• Chris Velan
  Chris Velan
  Chris Velan is a Montreal-based singer-songwriter and guitarist. While in college, he studied law. After passing the bar, he traveled to West Africa where he was the music producer of a documentary film based around a group of refugee musicians from Sierra Leone.In 2003 Velan returned from West...
  
  , International singer/songwriter
• Tim van de Ven, studio and live drummer, songwriter, producer
• Voivod
  Voivod (band)
  Voivod are a Canadian heavy metal band from Jonquière, Quebec, Canada. Their musical style has changed several times since the band's origin in the early 1980s...
  
  , metal band

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• Martha Wainwright
  Martha Wainwright
  Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle...
  
  , singer/songwriter
• Rufus Wainwright
  Rufus Wainwright
  Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...
  
  , singer/songwriter
• Wolf Parade
  Wolf Parade
  Wolf Parade is an indie rock band formed in 2003 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band is currently on an indefinite hiatus as of May 31, 2011.-History:...
  
  , rock band

External links

• Montreal Music Scene . com