Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Biography
Beverly Glenn-Copeland (born in Philadelphia in 1944) is an American singer and songwriter who, having studied at McGill University in Montreal, has spent most of his life and career in Canada. He began as a folk singer incorporating jazz, classical, and blues elements. He also performed on albums by Ken Friesen, Bruce Cockburn, Gene Murtynec, Bob Disalle, and Kathryn Moses, and was a writer on Sesame Street. He spent twenty-five years entertaining children as a regular actor on Canadian children's television show Mr. Dressup
His 1986 cassette, Keyboard Fantasies, caught the ears of Invisible City, AKA Brandon Hocura and Gary Abugan, as Glenn-Copeland recorded it solely using a Yamaha DX7 and Roland TR-707 for a sound that "lies somewhere between digital new-age and (accidentally) early Detroit techno experiments," according to their press release. The album was remastered and reissued in February 2017 by Invisible City Editions (a Toronto-based reissue label based only several hours' drive away from the album's original recording location).
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A re-working and re-imagining of the album, entitled Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined, featuring an array of artists such as Bon Iver, Flock Of Dimes, Julia Holter, Arca, Ana Roxanne, Kelsey Lu, Blood Orange, Joseph Shabason, Thom Gill, and Jeremy Dutcher, was released in 2021.
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