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    Johnny Burke

    Johnny Burke, poet, playwright, songwriter (b at St John's 1851; d there Aug 1930). While working at a variety of jobs, Burke moonlighted as a poet, writing hundreds of broadsheet ballads about events in St John's, printing them on his own press and selling them for 2 to 5 cents a copy.

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    Johnny Burt

    Johnny (John Edward) Burt. Arranger, composer, pianist, b London 31 Mar 1914, d Toronto 21 Sep 1980. Taken to Toronto as an infant, he studied piano as a child and composition, briefly, later with John Weinzweig.

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    Johnny Cowell

    John Marwood “Johnny” Cowell, trumpeter, composer, arranger (born 11 January 1926 in Tillsonburg (near London), ON; died 22 January 2018).

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    Johnny Holmes

    Johnny (John Joseph Harold) Holmes. Trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, composer, b Montreal 8 Jun 1916, d there 11 Jun 1989. He began playing cornet at 10 and studied briefly with C. Van Camp. After playing trumpet 1940-1 in a co-operative band, the Escorts, he took over its leadership 1941-50.

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    Johnny Lombardi

    John Barba-Linardo (Johnny) Lombardi, pioneer broadcaster, impresario, musician, entrepreneur (b at Toronto 4 Dec 1915; d at Toronto 18 Mar 2002).

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    Johnson, Audrey St Denys

    Audrey St Denys Johnson (born Wood). Music and drama critic and columnist, poet, director, born Toronto 21 Dec 1915, died Victoria 12 Aug 1993; piano teachers' LRSM 1932. Her family moved to Victoria, BC, in 1920, and there she studied piano (with Stanley Shale), singing, and violin.

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    JoJo Savard (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on September 4, 1995. Partner content is not updated. Ever since she burst onto the late, late-night airwaves in May, 1994, a startling apparition in a flurry of blond ponytails and purple ruffles, the Quebec astrologer has become a celebrity of a distinctly 1990s variety.

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    Jon Ballantyne

    Jon (William) Ballantyne. Pianist, composer, b Prince Albert, Sask, 8 Oct 1963.

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    Jon Kimura Parker

    John David Kimura Parker, OC, pianist, composer, teacher, broadcaster (born 25 December 1959 in Burnaby, BC). 

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    Jon Siddall

    Siddall, Jon. Composer, performer, b Hamilton, Ont, 23 Sep 1957; BFA (York) 1979; MA (Mills College, California) 1981. His teachers have included James Tenney, Terry Riley, and Lou Harrison.

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    Jon Vickers

    Jonathan Stewart "Jon" Vickers, CC, tenor (born 29 October 1926 in Prince Albert, SK; died 10 July 2015 in Ontario).

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    Jon Vickers

    Jon (Jonathan Stewart) Vickers, CC, tenor (born 29 October 1926 in Prince Albert, SK; died 10 July 2015 in ON). 

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    Jon Washburn

    Jon Spencer Washburn, conductor, composer, arranger, teacher (b at Rochelle, Ill 4 Jul 1942).

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    Jon Washburn

    Jon (Spencer) Washburn. Choir conductor, viola da gambist, composer, b Rochelle, Ill, 4 Jul 1942; B SC music education (Illinois) 1965. Jon Washburn studied conducting at the University of Illinois and musicology at Northwestern University and the University of British Columbia.

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    Jonathan Crombie

    ​Jonathan Crombie, actor (born 12 October 1966 in Toronto, ON; died 15 April 2015 in New York, New York).

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