You can rest in peace now you deserve it more then words can ever describe. You celebrated Canada, you celebrated Canadians and we thank you for that. Words cannot describe the sense of pride you’ve instilled in me for this country. The legacy you leave behind only charges Canada forward as the best place on earth to call home. Whether it was putting a spotlight on a place like my old neck-of-the-woods, Manitoba and its Brandon Wheat Kings, or challenging us to have the courage to look back at our history and take time to celebrate visionaries like Hugh MacLennan.Įvery word you spoke had purpose and every song you wrote became an anthem of its own. You laid down a challenge to your fellow Canadians, and that flame will not be extinguished. Your tireless work over these past years, bridging this gap between our Indigenous neighbours will not be forgotten. You challenged us as Canadians to not only appreciate who we are, but talk about the gaps in our society and ideas about how we could be better moving forward together.
Since you launched on the scene as “The Hip” in 1984, your words and your gripping on-stage performances put Canada on the map. And, you know what happened every time - that can only be described as an electrifying experience that is a Tragically Hip concert? En route, during or leaving the venue, every single one of the thousands of us came together by singing the Canadian national anthem. And thank you."įellow Canadians Seth Rogen, Will Arnett and KD Lang also remembered Downie on Twitter.Gord, I was one of those thousands of faces in the crowds at over a dozen of your shows. Rush, perhaps Canada's best-known band, tweeted, "It's a sad sad day for Canada and Canadian music. This is something I have certainly drawn inspiration and strength from." And that's why his last years were devoted to Chanie Wenjack and to reconciliation. He knew as great as we were, we needed to be better than we are. "We are less as a country without Gord Downie in it," he noted. The prime minister later choked up during a CBC interview about the singer's place in Canadian culture. Trudeau remembered him on Twitter Wednesday, writing, "There will never be another one like you, Gord. He also made an appeal to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had been in office for less than a year at that point, to address problems in Canada's aboriginal communities. Downie later told the Canadian Broadcast Corporation that he needed six teleprompters to help him remember the lyrics.
They have received numerous Canadian music awards, including 14 Juno awards, the equivalent of the Grammy in Canada.ĭownie also produced three solo albums beginning in 2001, as well as a collaboration with fellow Canadian indie darlings The Sadies.ĭownie's final live performance took place in the band's hometown of Kingston, Ontario in August 2016. Since then they have released 14 studio albums, two live albums, one EP and 54 singles. Their first self-titled EP was released in 1987 and their breakthrough debut full-length album, Up to Here, was released in 1989.
The band, who started out doing covers, eventually became known for original songs like Ahead By a Century, Wheat Kings, Blow at High Dough and New Orleans Is Sinking. Downie formed The Tragically Hip in 1984 with high school classmates Paul Langlois, Rob Baker, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fray.
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