JOHN MCDERMOTT
Event on 2015-12-20 20:00:00
John Charles McDermott is a Scottish-Canadian tenor best known for his rendering of the song Danny Boy. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John moved with his family to Willowdale, Toronto, Canada in 1965. Growing up in a musical family, his only formal musical training was at St. Michaels Choir School in Toronto, Ontario in 1971 and 1972. After singing at weddings for a few years, he joined with several other choristers to form a group, named The Mistletones, in 1980.He performed The Ballad of Harry Warden, the closing theme of the Canadian slasher film My Bloody Valentine (1981).Starting in 1988, he has regularly been called upon to sing the national anthems at Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays andToronto Maple Leafs games. From 1984 through 1992, he worked as a circulation representative for the Toronto Sun; Conrad Black heard him singing at company parties. Black, along with other executives, financed McDermotts independent recording of Danny Boy in 1992, which was picked up and released in North America by EMI Music Canada. Following this unexpected success, McDermott decided to pursue a professional singing career.
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