1. Al Connelly is a founding member of the rock band Glass Tiger.
16 Facts About Al Connelly
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Al Connelly has been part of all GT's major album releases as well as numerous solo recordings.
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Al Connelly, lives in Toronto Canada and was born in 1960 at Hopital du Sacre-Couer-de- Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Edward Connelly and Dorothy Dempsey.
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Al Connelly's parents moved from Glasgow Scotland to Canada in the 1950's.
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Al Connelly's father had started a career in Computer Engineering, at the beginning of the Technology era.
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Al Connelly's mother remarried Frank Seeley, an educator 2 years later.
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Al Connelly later earned Studio engineering diplomas both through Seneca College and Humber College in Toronto.
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At the age of 18, Al Connelly was asked to play with singer Alan Frew and bassist Wayne Parker in their late seventies rock band Onyx.
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The group disbanded after two years and Al Connelly formed a punk band briefly called The Untouchable Lowlifes, recording some of Al Connelly's songs.
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Al Connelly was asked to join the new band in 1983, and he performed with the band at first mainly in the Toronto area.
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Al Connelly toured with Glass Tiger in the United States as part of the Raised on Radio Tour and on Tina Turner's European Break Every Rule Tour.
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Al Connelly recorded in Los Angeles for Glass Tiger's third album, Simple Mission, which was released by Capitol Records in 1991.
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That year Al Connelly toured with Glass Tiger, first in Canada and later in Europe with the Swedish band Roxette.
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In 2009 Glass Tiger, including Al Connelly, played to the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and at Camp Mirage.
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Al Connelly toured across Canada in 2012 as part of Glass Tiger, along with Roxette, with whom they had toured Europe in 1992.
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Al Connelly submitted and performed the song "I Am That Strong" to live audiences during the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto.