Jimmy Young (Canadian singer)
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Jimmy Young is an R&B / Soul singer songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario. Canada.
Jimmy was born in the beautiful island of Trinidad and moved to Baltimore, Maryland at a young age. In the 60's Jimmy Young began writing music and singing where ever he can, during that period he had the good fortune of meeting a young singer with the Drifters, his good friend and mentor Ben E. King. At that time Jimmy was perfoming on weekends while going to University with a doo wop group called The Showstoppers, Ben E. King told Jimmy that he liked what he heard and encouraged him to work harder. 1966 came and Jimmy Young and The Showtoppers came to Montreal Canada to do a show at The Esquire Show Bar, this was a 9 piece show group, (ALA The Temptations) 4 singers and a 5 piece backup group. An agent from Montreal asked the group to stay and work in Canada because of their success, but they had to refuse because as Jimmy said "we were all University students and had to return to school". After graduating from University in 1968 with an Engineering degree Jimmy Young decided to move to Canada,(Montreal) on arriving he got in touch with a few of the people in the music business he had met on his previous visits to map out his musical future. The group "Jimmy Young and The Soul Imperials" was born, Jimmy went on to say "its the best bunch of musicians i have ever worked with". During the 70's an Ottawa radio DJ by the name of Casey Foxx after seeing one of Jimmy's shows went on air the following day and named him "Canada's Blackeyed Prince Of Soul". The name Jimmy Young in night clubs in the 70's stirred up excitement, he packed the "Ottawa House", "The Standish Hall", "The Barn","The Skyline Hotel" "Algonquin College" "Carlton University" Ottawa University" "The Chaudiere" "The Gatineau Golf And Country Club", and many, many more establishments in the Ottawa-Hull area. In 1975 Jimmy Young did a cross Canada tour set up by Blue Sky Music's President Bill MacKay, during this interview Jimmy stated the tour was great but the best part of the tour was spending 4 months in New Foundland,"the people on that island is fantastic'. During the 80's Jimmy Young began working with Ben E. King, The Temptations, Sam Moore, The Stylistics, and The O'Jays to name a few. After doing a show with Jimmy at Lu Lu's in Kitchener, Ontario. Canada, Ben E. King introduced Jimmy Young to Bob Gallo. Bob Gallo producer and arranger with CBS and Atlantic Records (James Brown, Ben E King, Patti Labelle, Solomon Burke, The Nylons and Zon to name a few.) Jimmy and Bob has been working together since the late 80's with great success,they have written, produced and recorded two original albums,(2002) "Heartbreaker" on Lost Gold Records and (2006) "South Bound Train", on White Oak Records. "Supernatural Thing" was a big single for Jimmy in the 90's and "Bad Company's "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love" reached #20 on Freedom Records. Jimmy has also recorded "Jimmy Young Classics", "Jimmy Young Classics II" and "A Joyful Christmas".
