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Burton Cummings transcends time, genres, and generations with a body of work that continues to resonate with fans old and new. His voice has been rated among the finest in rock music. He continues at the top of his game as performer, singer, songwriter, and recording artist.Tickets start at just $49.50 with limited Meet & Greet and Tour Package experiences available! Tickets at KleinhansBuffalo.org
About Burton Cummings
As lead singer and songwriter for Canada’s original rock ‘n’ roll superstars, The Guess Who, Burton scored an unprecedented string of international hit singles and albums including “American Woman,” “These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “No Time,” “Share the Land,” “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature,” and others, all written or co-written by Burton. By 1970, The Guess Who had sold more records than the entire Canadian music industry before breaking up in 1975.
The group achieved a long list of firsts, including first Canadian group to reach #1 on the Billboard charts – holding that spot for three weeks – and first to earn a platinum album for U.S. sales of more than one million copies. Rolling Stone magazine hailed The Guess Who as “one of rock’s most consistently fascinating maverick bands” with a succession of songs “that has few equals among contemporary North American groups.” Dick Clark described the group as rock innovators and ambassadors of Canadian music.
With a Winnipeg Community Centre and Performing Arts Centre named in his honor, Burton is a candidate for Canada’s most beloved rock ‘n’ roll son, yet he also enjoys a level of world-wide stature shared by only a handful of other Canadian artists.
The vast Guess Who catalogue endures today with staples of classic rock and oldies radio as well as in feature films, including: American Beauty, Almost Famous, Cable Guy, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Jackie Brown. “When I think back on having five million-selling records in the Top 10, one after the other, I can hardly believe it,” says Burton, “I was just twenty years old. The scope and magnitude of our success escaped all of us. It really didn’t sink in until years later.”
Beginning his solo career in 1976, Burton continued his winning streak with a gold record for his solo debut single “Stand Tall,” produced by legendary hitmaker Richard Perry, who numbered among his clients Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon and Ringo Starr. He followed this with more than a dozen hit singles and albums including “I’m Scared,” “My Own Way to Rock,” “I Will Play a Rhapsody,” “Timeless Love,” and “You Saved My Soul.” Sold-out tours across Canada and the United States solidified Burton’s stature as a top entertainer. Burton’s 1978 album Dream of a Child became the first quadruple platinum-selling album by a Canadian artist.
Through the 1980s and ‘90s, Burton continued to tour and joined Beatles drummer Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band. The success of Lenny Kravitz’ cover of “American Woman” in the hit feature film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me brought renewed attention to the original Guess Who. The group reunited in 1999 for the closing ceremonies of the Pan-American Games with a television audience numbering in the tens of millions. Several high-profile North American tours followed.
As the voice of all of the classic Guess Who hit songs, Burton has toured with his long-time band for the past twenty plus years across North America, as well as joining Randy Bachman onstage as Bachman-Cummings, performing the songs from the original The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Burton’s solo career.
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3 Symphony Cir, Buffalo, NY, United States, New York 14201
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