Best Musicians in Canada

September 16, 2021

Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings

Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings are among the top 10 best musicians in Canada as their music group is highly rated in the country. Masters of the spoonful-of-sugar approach to songwriting: win them over with memorable pop hooks, but also sneak in a little something extra. They’d sing a simple song, but deepen the flavour with the richness of a jazzy chord sequence (“Undun”) or unexpected feel change (“No Sugar Tonight”) to make things a little more interesting. On the other hand, “American Woman” is among the simplest songs ever written — just a caveman-level dumb riff that goes on and on and it works brilliantly.

Bruce Cockburn

As a top Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist, Bruce Douglas Cockburn have won many awards and received Earth Day Canada’s Outstanding Commitment to the Environment Award in 2010, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. On November 19, 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, at the 2012 SOCAN Awards in Toronto. On February 15, 2017, he received the People’s Voice Award in Kansas City from Folk Alliance International. On September 23, 2017, Cockburn was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony held at Massey Hall in Toronto. Bruce Cockburn is admired for the way how he lives his life, for his social service and his love his writing makes him outstanding. He is a great guitar player and an amazing inspiration. His body of work stands up there with the best.

Bryan Adams

Everyone knows this crooner outside of Canada for his 80s hard-rocking hits ‘Summer of 69’ and ‘Cuts Like a Knife’ or his heartfelt love ballads that dominated the 90s, ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’ – which still holds the record for longest unbroken run at No. on the UK singles chart – but this top Canadian musician and prolific songwriter is so much more than the soundtrack to school dances. With an unmistakable raspy voice and gift for writing incredibly catchy songs, few things are more cherished by Canadians than maple syrup, hockey and Bryan Adam’s ‘Run To You’.