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Leon Redbone

Canadian jazz singer and guitarist Leon Redbone, real name Dickran Gobalian (born in Nicosia, Cyprus, August 26, 1949; died in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA, May 30, 2019), made his name playing ragtime, pre-war jazz and blues in Toronto clubs in the 1970s. Very secretive about his biography (some facts about his birth and identity are not known), he opted for the stage name Leon Redbone and caught the attention of Bob Dylan, who discovered him at a folk festival in Mariposa, Ontario (Canada), in 1974, and advertised him in the American magazine Rolling Stone. Signed by Warner ...