Hawksley Workman is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has garnered critical acclaim for his blend of cabaret pop and glam rock. Workman has released eleven full length albums throughout his career. He is a multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards and singing on his records and often switching between those instruments when playing live.Workman is a prolific artist, usually writing, recording, mastering and releasing entire albums in the span of a few weeks. He explains, "A lot of artists I know they get a year and a half away from a record they've just made it's like ... 'Oh ... it's terrible I hate that thing,' ya know? When I record [a] record, I never take more than a day per song... so by the time the record is mixed, finished, complete, done... I'm still in a honeymoon with the record ..."His music has been featured on the television shows Scrubs, Being Human, Falcon Beach, Queer as Folk and Whistler.Workman produces and engineers much of his own recording, and has produced albums for other artists as well.In addition, Workman has taken supporting roles as an actor in Michael McGowan's films Score: A Hockey Musical and Still Mine.In 2013 Workman formed a band, Mounties, with Ryan Dahle (Limblifter) and Steve Bays (Hot Hot Heat). Their debut album, Thrash Rock Legacy, was released on March 4, 2014 on Light Organ Records.
[on a hedonistic approach to his performances] We create this opportunity together to lower the lights, to talk a little bit dirty, to have some wine, to have maybe a little bit too much wine, to have that release that we humans are told more and more that we need to deny ourselves in order to contain some sort of elusive moral righteousness.
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[on performing in an extended run] For a rock'n'roll guy, approaching theatre in all its conventions is very interesting. I'm used to setting up, playing one show, tearing it down, getting in a vehicle, traveling - so every day we're somewhere new. It's a beautiful thing to have the show set up and you just grow in that space that you're in. What everyone living in theatre takes for granted is such a different animal from rock'n'roll, despite the fact we're basically doing the same things.
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A lot of artists I know they get a year and a half away from a record they've just made it's like ... 'Oh ... it's terrible I hate that thing,' ya know? When I record [a] record, I never take more than a day per song... so by the time the record is mixed, finished, complete, done... I'm still in a honeymoon with the record.
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Currently working on a new album. [May 2005]
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Is a multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards and singing on his records and often switching between those instruments when playing live.
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Born in Bay Lake, Ontario (near Huntsville) & later moved to Toronto to embark on a career in music. His first album was "For Him & The Girls", released in 1999. He went on to release 3 more albums: "(Last Night We Were)The Delicious Wolves", "Almost A Full Moon" (both in 2001), & "Lover/Fighter" in 2003. In 2002 he won a Juno Award for "Best New Solo Artist" & "Best Video". ("Jealous Of Your Cigarette)
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Republic of Doyle
2010-2014
TV Series writer - 59 episodes
18 to Life
2010-2011
TV Series composer/performer - 25 episodes
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Three Days in Havana
2013
writer: "Break Your Body Down"
Republic of Doyle
2010-2013
TV Series writer - 42 episodes
Being Human
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2011 writer - 1 episode, 2011
Score: A Hockey Musical
2010
writer: "Hockey, The Greatest Game in the Land" / writer: "Ordinary Boy", "Dead and Done", "Boy in the Bubble", "Tot to Toe", "Eyes of Goddess" - as Ryan Corrigan
18 to Life
2010
TV Series performer: "Yes I Do" / writer: "Yes I Do" - as Ryan Corrigan
Drop Dead Gorgeous
2009
TV Movie performer: "Girls on Crutches"
Whistler
TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2006 writer - 2 episodes, 2006
Falcon Beach
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2006 writer - 1 episode, 2006
Avant qu'il ne soit trop tard
2005
performer: "We Will Still Need A Song"
Scrubs
2004
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Queer as Folk
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2002 writer - 1 episode, 2002
$19 Million
