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| Born | Jaime Royal Robertson July 5, 1943 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | August 9, 2023 (aged 80) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1957–2023 |
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| Children | 3, including Sebastian |
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| Formerly of | The Band |
Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson[1] OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician.[2] He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with The Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist.
Robertson's work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band, and into Canada's Walk of Fame, with the Band and on his own. He is ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists.[3] He wrote "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and "Up on Cripple Creek" with the Band and had solo hits with "Broken Arrow" and "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and many others. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters.[4]
Robertson collaborated on film and TV soundtracks, usually with director Martin Scorsese, beginning in the rockumentary film The Last Waltz (1978) and continuing through dramatic films including Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), Casino (1995), Gangs of New York (2002), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Silence (2016), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), scoring the latter shortly before his death.[5] The film was dedicated to his memory,[6] and garnered him a posthumous nomination for Best Original Score at the Academy Awards.[7]
- ^ Robertson, Sebastian (2014). Rock and Roll Highway: The Robbie Robertson Story. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-9473-2.
- ^ Six Nations Band Council. "Life Time Achievement Award" (PDF). Six Nations of The Grand River, Ontario, Canada: Six Nations Band Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 16, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
- ^ "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Rolling Stone. November 23, 2011. Archived from the original on December 30, 2015. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ Warner/Chappell. "Robbie Robertson: Our Artists and Producers". Retrieved April 27, 2017.
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