1. Zalman Yanovsky was a Canadian folk-rock musician and restaurateur.
16 Facts About Zal Yanovsky
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Zal Yanovsky played lead guitar and sang for the Lovin' Spoonful, a rock band which he founded with John Sebastian in 1964.
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Zal Yanovsky released a solo album in 1968 titled Alive and Well in Argentina.
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Zal Yanovsky was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Zal Yanovsky was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 as a member of the Lovin' Spoonful.
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Mostly self-taught, Zal Yanovsky began his musical career playing folk music coffee houses in Toronto.
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Zal Yanovsky lived on a kibbutz in Israel for a short time before returning to Canada.
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Zal Yanovsky teamed with fellow Canadian Denny Doherty in the Halifax Three.
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Zal Yanovsky appeared in the off-Broadway show National Lampoon's Lemmings at New York's Village Gate.
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In 1996 Zal Yanovsky was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and performed.
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The Hall of Fame performance was the last time Zal Yanovsky performed live, and the last time the original line up of The Lovin' Spoonful performed together.
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Zal Yanovsky had worked as a chef at The Golden Apple and, in the mid-1970s, at Dr Bull's.
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Zoe completed and launched another cookbook that Zal Yanovsky was working on, titled The Pan Chancho Cookbook.
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Zal Yanovsky met Canadian actress Jackie Burroughs in 1961 in a laundromat in Toronto, where he was sleeping in a dryer while homeless.
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Zal Yanovsky's step-mother was Anna Yanovsky, who died in 2022.
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Zal Yanovsky died on December 13,2002, in Kingston, Ontario, from a heart attack, at the age of 57.