Ralph Hamelmann (born July 21, 1967 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a songwriter, professor, columnist, cartoonist and television producer.
Since moving to Toronto in 1987, Hamelmann's cartoons and written articles have appeared in several publications including: The Newfoundland Herald , Xtra! , Toronto Sun , Calgary Herald , Eye Weekly , 24 Hours and Monday Magazine . In 1994, a comic book anthology of Hamelmann's cartoon strip, 'For Warped Minds Only', was published by Odyssey Publications. He was Editor-In-Chief of Inq Magazine , a Toronto-based holistic health journal that was launched in 2000 (ISSN 1499-6588).
Hamelmann has produced television segments for 10% QTV (1997–98) and QT: QueerTelevision (1998). In 1998, he created and hosted Cutting Edge, a documentary-style television series that aired on Rogers TV. The show earned Hamelmann the 1999 Galaxi Award from the Ontario Cable Television Producers Society. In 2014, he was Executive Producer and Backstage Host of Spectra Talent Contest—an eight-part TV series that aired on OUTtv and Bell Local.
Since 2001, Hamelmann has been a professor at George Brown College. He was the recipient of the 2006 Award for Teaching Excellence.
Hamelmann is the founding President and Executive Director of the Rainbow Association of Canadian Artists, a Toronto-based non-profit organization that produces Spectra. In 2013, Hamelmann co-wrote "If You're Not Here At Christmas" with Juno Award winner Gavin Bradley and Gemini Award winner Paul Bellini. This song was certified gold by Music Canada. [1] In 2014, Hamelmann co-wrote "Without Words" a song in support of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that reached No. 1 on the iTunes Canada Easy Listening Chart. [2] In 2015, he co-wrote Not My Time—a song in support of the Canadian Cancer Society [3] that also reached No. 1 on the iTunes Canada Easy Listening Chart.
Paul Lewis Quarrington was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.
Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is known for writing and co-writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "Out in the Country", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World", Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart", and the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays". He also wrote "Cried Like a Baby" for teen idol Bobby Sherman.
Kim Stockwood is a Canadian pop musician, singer and composer originally from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She has recorded as a solo artist and also as a member of Atlantic Canadian music group Shaye with Damhnait Doyle and Tara MacLean.
Gordon Edward Pinsent was a Canadian actor, writer, director, and singer. He was known for his roles in numerous productions, including Away from Her, The Rowdyman, John and the Missus, A Gift to Last, Due South, The Red Green Show, and Quentin Durgens, M.P. He was the voice of Babar the Elephant in television and film from 1989 to 2015.
Gary Pearson is a Canadian comedian, and television writer-producer. His writing credits include MAD TV, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Corner Gas, and That's So Weird!. He is co-creator of the television series Sunnyside.
"Strangers in the Night" is a song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Kaempfert originally used it under the title "Beddy Bye" as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed. The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra, although it was initially given to Melina Mercouri, who thought that a man's vocals would better suit the melody and therefore declined to sing it.
Frank Radford "Budge" Crawley, was a Canadian film producer, cinematographer and director. Along with his wife Judith Crawley, he co-founded the production company Crawley Films in 1939.
Jacob Gill Gaudaur, Jr., was a Canadian Football League (CFL) player, executive, and commissioner. His 45-year career in Canadian football, including 16 years as the league's fourth commissioner, oversaw the start of the modern era of professional Canadian football. As an amateur artist, Gaudaur made two important contributions, designing both the Hamilton Tiger-Cats "Leaping Tiger" logo, as well as an early version of the CFL logo. With Ralph Sazio, he co-wrote "The Tiger-Cat Marching Song", the fight song of the Tiger-Cats.
Greg Wells is a multiple Grammy winning Canadian musician, record producer, songwriter and audio engineer. Wells has songs on over 130 million albums sold. He has worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ariana Grande, The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Michael Bublé, Ryan Tedder, John Legend, Adele, Kid Cudi, Taylor Swift, Panic At The Disco, Missy Elliot, Selena Gomez, Rufus Wainwright, Dua Lipa, Weezer, Jazmine Sullivan, Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Jake Wesley Rogers, "San Quentin Mixtapes, Vol. 1" with David Jassy, Pharrell Williams, Carrie Underwood, Deftones, Jamie Cullum, Pink, Theophilus London, Keith Urban, Crash Test Dummies, Celine Dion, MIKA, Twenty One Pilots, Aerosmith, as well as Sir George Martin, Quincy Jones, Elton John, Burt Bacharach, Stephen Schwartz, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the Count Basie Orchestra.
Hugh Hagood Hardy, was a Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist. He played mainly jazz and easy listening music. He is best known for the 1975 single, "The Homecoming" from his album of the same name, and for his soundtrack to the Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea films.
Les Stroud is a Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician best known as the creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman. Stroud was named Chief Scout by Scouts Canada on November 22, 2021. After a short career behind the scenes in the music industry, Stroud became a full-time wilderness guide, survival instructor and musician based in Huntsville, Ontario. Stroud has produced survival-themed programming for The Outdoor Life Network, The Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, and YTV. The survival skills imparted from watching Stroud's television programs have been cited by several people as the reason they lived through harrowing wilderness ordeals.
Brian Oliver MacLeod, nicknamed "Too Loud" MacLeod, was a Canadian musician, songwriter and music producer, best known as a member of the bands Chilliwack and Headpins.
The Terry Fox Story is a 1983 Canadian-American biographical film of Canadian amputee and runner Terry Fox. It was written by Howard Hume, John Kastner and Rose Kastner, and directed by Ralph L. Thomas. The film stars Eric Fryer as Fox, Chris Makepeace as his brother Darrell, and Robert Duvall as Fox's publicist, Bill Vigars. The cast also includes Rosalind Chao, R. H. Thomson, Elva Mai Hoover, Michael Zelniker, Saul Rubinek and Patrick Watson.
Michael Wade Kulas is a Canadian singer, songwriter and music producer who was a member of the English rock band James between 1997 and 2001.
Stephan Moccio is a Canadian composer, producer, pianist, arranger, conductor and recording artist. He co-wrote and co-produced the two end credit songs for Fifty Shades of Grey and its soundtrack: "Earned It" and "I Know You", with the former being nominated for Best R&B Song and Best Song Written For Visual Media at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, and Best Original Song at the 88th Academy Awards. He also was a producer on the Weeknd's album Beauty Behind the Madness, which was nominated for Album Of The Year at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.
Shirley Rose Eikhard was a Canadian singer-songwriter. Although moderately successful in Canada as a performer in her own right, she had her greatest Canadian and international success as a songwriter for other artists, most notably as the writer of Bonnie Raitt's 1991 hit "Something to Talk About".
Ralph Sall is an American record producer, music supervisor, composer, songwriter and screenwriter. He is the president of Bulletproof Entertainment, a company involved in several facets of the entertainment industry, including film, television, comic books and graphic novels, music, internet and live theatre.
Magic! is a Canadian reggae fusion band based in Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of lead vocalist, guitarist/producer Nasri Atweh, guitarist/keyboardist Mark "Pelli" Pellizzer, and bassist Ben Spivak. Active since 2012, the band is signed with Latium, Sony, and RCA Records, releasing their debut studio album Don't Kill the Magic in 2014, their second studio album Primary Colours in 2016, and their third studio album Expectations in 2018. They are best known for their hit single "Rude", which charted at No. 1 in several countries worldwide, including the US and UK.
Jason Benoit is a country music singer-songwriter from Fox Island River, in western Newfoundland. Benoit began pursuing his professional music career in 2013. His first single was a country rendition of the Armin van Buuren and Trevor Guthrie dance song "This Is What It Feels Like", which peaked on the Billboard Canada Country chart at number 46. The single was included on the country music compilation album, Country Heat 2014. In 2014, Benoit signed his first label deal with the newly formed JV Records/Sony Music Canada and shortly after released "Crazy Kinda Love". On March 9, 2015, Benoit released his third single, "Gone Long Gone". The latter reached the top ten on the Canadian Billboard Country chart in the summer of 2015 and was certified Gold by Music Canada shortly thereafter.
Not My Time is a pop song by the Spectra 2015 Singers. 100% of net proceeds from the recording benefit the Rainbow Association of Canadian Artists (RACA) and the Cancer Society.