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Bruce Cockburn
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Miami Vice Performer
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"Maybe the Poet" ("Free Verse")
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Born
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May 27, 1945, Ottawa, Canada
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Active
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1967-present
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Spouse/Child
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Kitty Cockburn (1969-1980, divorced), one daughter (Jenny, born 1976)
M.J. Hannett (2011-present), one daughter (Iona, born 2011) |
Bruce Douglas Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, whose song "Maybe the Poet" appeared in the episode "Free Verse" of the series Miami Vice.
Career[]
Cockburn began his career as a member of the Canadian bands The Children, The Esquires, and The Flying Circus, then left in 1969 to begin a solo career. He has recorded 29 solo albums between 1970 - 2006, but did not get any notice in the United States until his 1979 album Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws, featuring his only Billboard Top 40 single, "Wondering Where The Lions Are", which reached #21 in 1980 and got him a gig on Saturday Night Live. In the 1980s his albums became more politicized, on his album Stealing Fire (featuring "Maybe the Poet") he recorded "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" (#88 on the Hot 100) in response to Guatemalan attacks on Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico. In 1991 the group Barenaked Ladies recorded one of Cockburn's songs, "Lovers In A Dangerous Time", which helped launch their career, and a line from the song, "Kick at the Darkness", was referenced in the U2 song "God Part II". His songs have been covered over the years by artists like Jimmy Buffett, Dan Fogelberg, Anne Murray, and k.d. lang, among others. In 2014, his memoirs, Rumours of Glory: A Memoir.