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Interviews and Features with Dan Hill

Look for Dan’s article in Zoomer Magazine – on newstands now!

And watch for upcoming features on Dan in Sway and Canadian Running.

Songwriter Dan Hill puts his voice first – The Toronto Star, March 9, 2010
It’s been more than a decade since Dan Hill’s last album, but the Toronto singer-songwriter stayed in vocal and lyrical form penning tunes for a slew of country, pop and jazz stars, including Alan Jackson, Michael Bolton and George Benson.

Dan Hill: Enduring Talent – TempoToronto.ca, March 7, 2010
After a break in performing, Dan returned to the stage this year for a cross-country tour, and his outstanding new album Intimate launched March 9.

Interview with Dan Hill – Fazer Magazine, March 5, 2010
FAZER Magazine recently caught up with Dan Hill and listened as he took some time to explain what it was like to be an international songwriter, the creation his book, and making his first album in fifteen years.

The Heroes: Memories die hard; love dies harder still – GoodNewsToronto.ca, March 4, 2010

Dan Hill Comes by his talent honestly – ShareNews.com, March 3, 2010

A touch is too much for some, but not for Dan Hill – The Globe and Mail, February 21, 2010
Decades after his hit single, the singer-songwriter is still intense

Lisa MacDonald sits down with Dan Hill Part I Part II- FYI Music News, February 21, 2010
Lisa McDonald is back with another in-depth interview, this time with singer/songwriter and now celebrated author, Dan Hill.

Take 5 Interview with Dan Hill (audio file) – CIUT 89.5 FM, February 16, 2010
Hosts David Peterson and Crystal Luxmore speak with Canadian artist Dan Hill about his concert at the ROM, his lifelong friend Paul Quarrington, his new CD Intimate, and his memoir My Father’s Son. Featuring live performances in the Map Room Studio.

Diabetes: Running in the Family (pdf) – Diabetes Dialogue, Summer 2009
An award winning singer-songwriter reflects on his life, the secret his father kept from the public, and how openly sharing that secret helped him change his life

Dan Hill deals with daddy issues in candid new memoir – CTV, February 13, 2009
Make no mistake. Dan Hill loves his father. But you might not feel the same way about his dad when you read Hill’s new book, “I Am My Father’s Son: A Memoir of Love and Forgiveness.”

Getting Reacquainted with Dan Hill – Maclean’s, February 14, 2008
He comes from a family of activists, has a one-sided rivalry with Bruce Cockburn—and is still churning out hits (for others).


What People Are Saying about ‘I Am My Father’s Son’:

“Singer/songwriter Hill’s complex relationship with his very accomplished and domineering dad forms the basis of this moving memoir.  Biggest surprise of the year.”
- Susan G. Cole/NOW Magazine (The Best of 2009)
“Dan Hill’s writing is intelligent, hilarious, eloquent and astonishingly honest.  I Am My Father’s Son is a remarkable act of courage.”
“I Am My Father’s Son took me on an intellectual, emotional and spiritual pilgrimage that instantly changed my life forever.”
“Dan Hill’s book is a revelation – a wonderfully written memoir that reveals such profound humanity and sensitivity in dealing with the complexities of love, hate, competition and pride within a family… Simultaneously, Dan chronicles the lures and pitfalls of the music business, generously sharing his entanglements in the shark-infested waters that many creative artists have to navigate…  I couldn’t put the book down.”
“I Am My Father’s Son is insightful, warm and touching.  Dan Hill has done a terrific job of capturing a father who was obviously a complex, proud and difficult man, not always capable of expressing his deep love and admiration for his children.”
“A page-turning memoir that hits all of the right notes from the first page to the last.”
“Dan Hill’s currency in his music has always been this absolute honesty… A great read and O’Neillesque study on the dynamic between the father and the son, by one of Canada’s most successful songwriters… fascinating!”
“I Am My Father’s Son describes a complicated family… in a complicated time, and does it with honesty and verve.”
“A compulsively readable memoir.  It is a fine contribution not just to Canadian showbiz lore but to our country’s social history.  Dan Hill dishes lots of fascinating backstage gossip… [but] also strikes universal chords.”
“The honesty’s just right… Dan Hill’s wrenching book dissects a troubled father-son relationship made more complicated by race.”
“Inevitably, Hill’s musical sensibility infuses his prose… The story has a musical pulse, and exactness of comedic timing.  Like his father and brother… Dan Hill possesses the gift of storytelling, in the broad, oral, African-American tradition.”
“[I Am My Father's Son] jolts us, like hearing a soon-to-be-classic song for the first time… The book uses the glitz of the 1970′s music scene as a backdrop for a soul-searching story of a father and a son.”
“[Dan Hill's] raw memoir, I Am My Father’s Son, [is] a searing examination of his relationship with Daniel Grafton Hill III.”

I AM MY FATHER’S SON

IN STORES NOW – Click here to order the book online.

From Tory Zimmerman/the Globe and Mail, “Sometimes When We Touch” like you’ve never heard it before!

 

Click here to read a review of I Am My Father’s Son in the Globe and Mail.

 

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