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Robbie Robertson

Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist

Robbie Robertson

Born:July 5, 1943

Died:August 9, 2023

Age at death:80

Manner of death:Natural Causes

Cause of death:Prostate Cancer

Zodiac Sign:Cancer

Children:3

Born in:Toronto, Canada

Residence:Los Angeles, United States

Languages:English

Film Score ComposerRecording ArtistProducerFilm ActorActorMusicianScreenwriterSinger-songwriterLyricistGuitaristRecord ProducerSingerComposer

Links

WikipediaOfficial WebsiteIMDbX (Twitter)Instagram

Famous For

Bands

The Band

Movies & TV

The Last WaltzThe Crossing GuardAmerican MastersEat the DocumentCarny

Songs & Albums

Robbie RobertsonMusic for The Native AmericansStoryvilleContact from the Underworld of RedboyHow to Become Clairvoyant

Awards

Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in a Feature Film (2023)Governor General's Performing Arts Award (2006)Canada's Walk of Fame (2003)Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year (1999)Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award (1995)

Biography

Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician, composer, and producer. Robertson was the onetime lead guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band. He was also the guitarist and primary songwriter of the Band from its inception until his 1976 departure. In his later solo career, Robertson released six albums. Robertson's work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band; he was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame, both with the Band and on his own. Robertson is ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine's 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He wrote "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" with the Band and had a solo hit with "Somewhere Down the Crazy River". He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters. Robertson collaborated on film and television soundtracks, usually with director Martin Scorsese. His soundtrack work began with The Band's farewell rockumentary film The Last Waltz (1978) and included dramatic films such as Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), The Color of Money (1986), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), the last of which was dedicated to his memory and garnered him a posthumous nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

This biography uses content from the Wikipedia article “Robbie Robertson”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

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From New York City R n R Hall of Fame inductions March 6, 2000

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Woodstock tee at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Note: Woodstock logo on T-shirt have been blurred (2016-07-03) Flickr Tags: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Cleveland Ohio Woodstock tee shirt shirt t shirt. from Flickr album "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" by Sam Howzit.

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Robbie Robertson during a radio interview in March, 2011.

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Robbie Robertson during a March, 2011 radio interview.

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Robbie Robertson performing with The Band. Hamburg, May 1971.

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Trade ad for The Band's single "Time To Kill" / "The Shape I'm In". To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.

Robbie Robertson

Trade ad for The Band's single "Time To Kill" / "The Shape I'm In". To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.

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Bob Dylan and The Band touring in Chicago, 1974 (Left to right: Rick Danko (bass), Robbie Robertson (guitar), Bob Dylan (guitar), Levon Helm(drums)

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Robbie Robertson's star on Canada's Walk of Fame

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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Daniel Roher and released in 2019.[1] A portrait of the influential roots rock group The Band, the film is based in part on Robbie Robertson's 2017 memoir Testimony. The film is slated to premiere on September 5, 2019 as the opening film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, the first time the festival has ever selected a Canadian documentary film as its opening gala.

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