Alan
Frew is a five time Juno award winner and a Grammy nominee. A twenty-year
veteran of the Canadian Music Industry, this charismatic vocalist, with a
truly captivating style is the voice of the internationally renowned recording
group GLASS TIGER and has sold over 3,000,000 albums worldwide.
As a songwriter, Frew
has written numerous top ten hits with several of them having the distinction
of reaching the chart topping #1 position. Someday, So Blind, I'm Still Searching
and Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone), have all reached this plateau. Alan is
the recipient of four Canadian Classic Awards for songs each being played
in excess of 100,000 airplays on Canadian radio.
One of the most recognized
Canadian celebrities, he has toured and performed over the years with Rod
Stewart, Tina Turner, Julian Lennon, Journey, Roxette, Cheap Trick, Creedance
Clearwater Revival, Huey Lewis and Fleetwood Mac. He maintains friendships
with many top Canadian artists including Tom Cochrane, Roch Voisine, Barenaked
Ladies, Alannah Myles, Dan Hill and Marc Jordan, to name a few.
After the breakup of GLASS
TIGER, he teamed up with producer John Jones, musical legends Mick Fleetwood
and Mickey Dolenz and released his first solo effort entitled, Hold On which
produced such hits as So Blind and Healing Hands. Alan's next project Wonderland
was released in the Fall of 2000 to rave reviews and has yielded the single
Lipstick and his most recent single All I Ever Wanted.
Alan has traveled overseas
to perform in Bosnia and the Middle East for the Canadian Armed Forces and
their allies. Busy with outside projects, Alan wrote the anthem for CBC's
World Cup 2002 telecast and the anthem for the 2001 World Hockey Championships
in Germany where he performed the song live at the opening ceremonies.
Alan's television show
called Road Stories with Alan Frew is an insightful, caring, thought-provoking
musical journey into the minds, lives and songs of some of music's most interesting
performers; told by musicians to a musician, as only they can.
Currently, his love of
people and art has led him, through his company ukGASH (www.ukGASH.com),
to mentoring young musicians and specifically a young solo artist called T
(www.justtmusic.com), painting, acting, writing a screenplay, launching a
cartoon (www.fragg.com) and a clothing line (www.odwear.com).
He remains strongly connected to charities for children.