1. Gordon Francis Sampson was born on July 30,1971 and is a Canadian singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia.
16 Facts About Gordie Sampson
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Gordie Sampson has written songs for Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, and Rascal Flatts.
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Gordie Sampson has received a Grammy Award, a Juno Award, two ASCAP Awards, East Coast Music Awards, and honorary degrees from Cape Breton University and St Francis Xavier University.
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Gordie Sampson was born in 1971 to Francis Xavier Gordie Sampson and Florence Ley.
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Gordie Sampson remembers being surrounded by fiddlers, who were very common in Cape Breton.
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Gordie Sampson attended Riverview Rural High School in the late 1980s.
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The group released one CD, Dig; three singles from the album, all co-written by Gordie Sampson, were Top 10 hits in Canada in 1994.
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Around this same time, Gordie Sampson became a part of Rita MacNeil's band, both on the road and on her popular weekly CBC show Rita and Friends.
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Gordie Sampson toured with the Nova Scotia-based family music group The Rankin Family.
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Gordie Sampson has said that the song was inspired by the death of an acquaintance in a car accident on a highway in Nova Scotia two years earlier.
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Gordie Sampson wrote the song "Any Other Day" for the 2007 Bon Jovi album Lost Highway.
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Gordie Sampson has produced albums for Natalie McMaster and Damhnait Doyle.
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Gordie Sampson has recorded three more solo albums since his 1998 debut.
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Gordie Sampson produced the CD and played the majority of the instruments on the album, including guitars, bass, drums and piano.
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In 2010, the Gordie Sampson Songcamp was conceived by Sampson as a way to encourage and develop young songwriters from across Nova Scotia.
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Gordie Sampson attends the intensive, five-day event every year, often accompanied by special professional guests.