Rankin, John Morris

Rankin, John Morris
▪ 2001

      Canadian musician (b. April 28, 1959, Mabou, Cape Breton Island, N.S.—d. Jan. 16, 2000, near Inverness, Cape Breton Island), was a master fiddler and pianist who, as leader of the Rankins, a musical group made up of members of his family, helped revive interest in North American Celtic music and culture; a child prodigy who was featured in the 1973 documentary film The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler, he went on to achieve stardom with the tradition-oriented Rankins, who sold two million albums and won five Juno Awards; he died when his truck skidded off a coastal highway into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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