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Origin
Vancouver,Canada
Genre
Alternative Rock
Style
Punk
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Vancouver,CanadaGenre
Alternative RockStyle
PunkMood
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Born
1953
Active
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Art Bergmann - Runaway Train4 users
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Art Bergmann - My Empty House
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"Arthur Frank "Art" Bergmann" (born February 8, 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who was one of the key figures in Canadian punk rock in the late 1970s.
Bergmann began his musical career with an Abbotsford band called the Mount Lehman Grease Band. After Mount Lehman folded, he founded his own band, called the Notorious Smorg Brothers, which he stocked with a myriad of different support artists. Bergmann was later the lead singer and songwriter for Vancouver punk stalwarts Young Canadians (formerly The K-Tels).
He released his debut solo album, the John Cale-produced Crawl with Me, in 1988. He garnered a Juno Award nomination for Most Promising Male Vocalist at the Juno Awards of 1989. 1990's Sexual Roulette, produced by Chris Wardman, became Bergmann's mainstream breakthrough, spawning the rock radio hit "Bound for Vegas" and garnering him a deal with Polygram Records.
Truly great musicians defy categorization. They often defy adjectives as well, which makes them difficult to write about. That is where Art Bergmann lies: between the facts and the superlatives.
Very little of his solo music can be described as 'punk', though that's where his roots lie. He was 'alternative' when that actually meant something, back before it became just another commercial category. And those terms are the closest you'll get to genre-fying him. You can't even say there's an 'Art Bergmann' sound, because each of his albums sounds different from the next.
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