Redbone, Leon

LC control no.	n 85290550
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Redbone, Leon *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Gobalian, Dickran
Associated country	Canada
Located	Toronto (Ont.) New Hope (Pa.)
Birth date	1949-08-26
Death date	2019-05-30
Place of birth	Cyprus
Place of death	Bucks County (Pa.)
Field of activity	Popular music
Profession or occupation	Singers Guitarists Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Sound recording executives and producers
Found in	His Red to blue [SR] p1985: label (Leon Redbone, vocals & guitar) U.S. copyright file, Apr. 16, 2009 (Redbone, Leon, 1944- ) Wikipedia, September 11, 2013 (Leon Redbone; born Dickran Gobalian, August 26, 1949; singer and guitarist; also songwriter, arranger, producer; according to the Toronto Star report in the 1980s he came to Canada from Cyprus in the mid-1960s and changed his name via Ontario, Change of Name Act; however, an article about producer John H. Hammond in a 1973 issue of the Canadian jazz magazine Coda states that he was a native of Philadelphia who moved to Toronto) Oxford music online, September 11, 2013: Enc. of popular music, 4th ed. (Redbone, Leon; born August 26, 1949, possibly in Canada; first heard of in Toronto during the early 1970s) New York times WWW site, viewed June 3, 2019 (in obituary published May 30: Leon Redbone; b. Dickran Gobalian, Aug. 26, 1949, Cyprus (an authoritative article in The Oxford American this year said his parents had relocated there from the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem after the new Israeli government seized their property; he always remained elusive about his birth name and other details of his life); living in Toronto by the mid-1960s; d. Thursday [May 30, 2019], Bucks County, Pa., aged 69; lived in New Hope, Pa.; burst onto the pop-music scene in the mid-1970s with a startlingly throwback singing style and a look to go with it, favoring songs from bygone eras drolly delivered)
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	n 96000270