Tommy Graham

Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, arranger & producer from Toronto, Ontario. Active in the 1960s to 1980s. Started out in the music industry in the early 1960s as a member of the house band at Club Bluenote, Toronto. By 1965 was leading Tommy Graham & The Big Town Boys. Founded Tommy Graham Productions with Fred White in 1966. After The Big Town Boys folded in 1967, Graham used the money from their considerable success to travel the globe, studying sitar in Calcutta with Ali Akbar Khan for a year. He contracted yellow fever and returned home in 1969, where his old friend Brian Ahern enlisted him as a studio musician for Ahern's newly discovered talents: Anne Murray and Gene MacLellan. Graham was not interested in being a studio musician and self-produced his solo album in 1970, which was well received and led to a string of singles and production work for his label Capitol.