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Background information
Born
Steven Jay Page

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Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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  • Musician
  • record producer
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  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • flute
  • piano
  • saxmonica
Years active1988–present
LabelTemplate:Pluralize from textZoë/Rounder, Cooking Vinyl
Member ofTrans-Canada Highwaymen
Formerly ofBarenaked Ladies, the Vanity Project
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Carolyn Ricketts
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(m. 1993; div. 2009)​
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Christine Benedicto
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(m. 2011)​
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Websitestevenpage.com

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Steven Jay Page (born June 22, 1970) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was a founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the music group Barenaked Ladies. Page left the band in February 2009 to pursue a solo career.

Early life

Page was born in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, in Ontario. After skipping grade one, he was enrolled in Scarborough's gifted program at Churchill Heights Public School.[2] Page's father, Victor, was a drummer,[3] as is his brother, Matthew. As a child, Page would attempt to play songs on the piano, while his father would keep the beat on the drums.[3] Page took ten years of piano lessons (though claimed he did not learn to play).[4] He also was a member of the Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir.[4]

During childhood, Page had his best friend "stolen" by a schoolmate, Ed Robertson, and resented Robertson for some time. The two attended high school at Woburn Collegiate Institute but did not associate until Page spotted Robertson at a Harvey's restaurant after a Peter Gabriel concert and was surprised to find that Robertson was also a fan. After engaging in conversation, Page and Robertson became friends and ultimately formed the rock band Barenaked Ladies.[5] They were both counsellors at the Scarborough Schools Music Camp in the summer of 1988, where some of their early collaborations in music were born. Page wrote songs with his friend Geoff Pounsett and made tapes of those songs. Robertson had obtained a tape the two had made, and knew some of Page's songs.[2]

Page attended York University in the English program, with a minor in theory and choral studies, but he left to focus on the band's rising success.[4]

Career

Barenaked Ladies

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Page at Massey Hall in 2005

Ed Robertson invited Page to perform with him at a charity show under the name Barenaked Ladies in 1988, and ultimately, the show led the pair to full-time careers in the band. Page was a main songwriter from the band's inception. A majority of the group's material came either from him alone or was co-written with Robertson. Page also played acoustic and electric guitar (and occasionally other instruments) for Barenaked Ladies, both in the studio and live.[citation needed] After additional musicians joined BNL, the band became increasingly popular during the 1990s and 2000s.

In 2002, Page won an International Achievement Award at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto for the song "Pinch Me", which he co-wrote with Robertson.[6]

By 2004, Page was having reservations about his contributions to Barenaked Ladies. He has indicated that he participated in the recordings of Barenaked for the Holidays and Snacktime! despite being opposed to them.[7] Concerning Snacktime!, Page stated, "[i]t was a lot of fun to do, but it wasn't my idea. I was along for the ride."[7]

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Page performing with Barenaked Ladies in 2008 on their Ships & Dip III cruise.

On February 24, 2009, it was announced that Page would be leaving the group to pursue other opportunities, including solo projects and theatre work, and that the remainder of the band would continue in his absence.[8][9] The decision had been made about a week and a half before the public announcement, with one reason being the rest of the band's desire to record a new album and Page's reluctance to do so.[10] Page believes that his much-publicized drug arrest in Syracuse, New York hastened his already imminent split with the band.[7]

The singer commented in August 2011 that around the time of his arrest, "the band was no longer the joyous place that it once was, but it hadn't been joyous for a long time before that. It wasn't that we didn't put on good shows, we still had a great time onstage every night," he added. "But it became a place where work was just about the stress and not the end product. And (the arrest and band tension) made me gather the strength to go out and do what I always wanted to do."[11]

In September 2015, TMZ discovered court documents filed by Page over "The Big Bang Theory Theme". He alleged that he was promised 20% of the proceeds from the song, which included revenue generated from the Barenaked Ladies greatest hits album, and he claimed that former bandmate Robertson has kept that money entirely for himself.[12]

On March 25, 2018, Page performed with Barenaked Ladies for the first time in nine years at the Juno Awards in Vancouver, in celebration of the band's induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Though there were reportedly no plans to make the reunion permanent, neither side had made any definite decision.[13]

Collaboration with Stephen Duffy

As a young man, Page was a fan of British singer-songwriter Stephen Duffy, a founding member of Duran Duran and the frontman for the group The Lilac Time. Page began corresponding with Duffy after the latter replied to his fan letter.[14] Page was ultimately invited to co-write with Duffy in the early 1990s, and several co-written songs subsequently appeared on Barenaked Ladies albums, starting with Maybe You Should Drive.[citation needed]

In June 2005, Page and Duffy released a self-titled album under the name The Vanity Project.

Solo

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Page during his Page One tour

Following his departure from Barenaked Ladies, Page's first major project was to complete writing music for the first production of Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2009. During that summer, he embarked on a tour of music festivals, accompanied by Kevin Fox on cello.[citation needed]

He recorded the song "He's a Really Useful Engine" for the soundtrack of the 2000 children's film Thomas and the Magic Railroad.[15][16]

Page's next release was A Singer Must Die, a studio recording of songs he performed in a pair of concerts, Songbook II, with the contemporary music group Art of Time Ensemble. Following the album's publication on February 16, 2010, the artists embarked on a twelve-date concert tour.[17] Page participated in other concerts with Art of Time Ensemble, including Take This Waltz (a collection of waltzes) and a performance of the Beatles' Abbey Road album, using semi-classical arrangements by Art of Time Ensemble.[citation needed] In November 2011, Page performed a songbook concert, Songbook 6, featuring new compositions.[citation needed]

The singer's first album of original material under his own name, Page One, was released on October 19, 2010. Page toured the record across Canada and the US, including a string of shows supporting the Goo Goo Dolls.[citation needed]

On January 1, 2011, he performed at the NHL Winter Classic and led the singing of Canada's national anthem before the game.[18] He also performed Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" at the state funeral of Jack Layton, on August 27, 2011.[19]

On January 17, 2012, Page released a new single containing two new songs, "A Different Sort of Solitude" and "Manchild".[20] The song was included on the soundtrack of the film French Immersion. "Manchild" was co-written with Craig Northey of The Odds.

On the same day as the release, Page was nominated at the 32nd Annual Genie Awards for the composition of "A Different Sort of Solitude".[21]

Page has hosted a television show, The Illegal Eater, in which he is featured travelling to various cities in search of underground restaurants and/or pop-up supper clubs.[22]

In July 2014, it was announced that the singer had been working on a new studio album. The record, Heal Thyself Pt. 1: Instinct, was released on March 11, 2016.[23]

On September 14, 2018, Page issued his follow-up record, Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II.

Here's What It Takes, a musical written by Page and Daniel MacIvor, was slated to premiere at the 2020 Stratford Festival.[24] With the production shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Page has performed a weekly series of home concerts through Dan Mangan's Side Door platform.[24] He and the show's cast recorded a version of the musical's closing song, "No Song Left to Save Me", for an appearance on CBC Radio's Q.[24]

On December 3, 2021, Page released the single "Canada Loves You Back (feat. Odds)", which he performed at the Governor General's Awards in honour of Ryan Reynolds.[25][26][27][28]

On September 30, 2022, Page released the record Excelsior.[29] The record touches on "grief, loss, and loneliness", according to Page.[30][31]

Trans-Canada Highwaymen

On July 16, 2016, Page performed a show as a member of the band Trans-Canada Highwaymen, a supergroup of fellow Canadian musicians, including Moe Berg of the Pursuit of Happiness, Chris Murphy of Sloan, and Craig Northey (who also performs as Page's lead guitarist at his solo shows).[32] The band subsequently announced a tour, which began in April 2017.[citation needed] They only performed covers of songs from the members' respective bands for the first seven years of their existence. In 2023, they released their debut album, Explosive Hits Vol. 1, which consists of covers of 1960s and 1970s songs by Canadian artists.

Personal life

Page was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and a father of Anglo Protestant background.[citation needed] Although Page's father, Victor, converted to Judaism to appease Page's mother's religious grandparents, her grandparents disowned him nonetheless. His mother's Jewish background was the subject of an episode of a CBC genealogy program called Who Do You Think You Are?[33]

Page has been married twice. His first wife was Toronto musician and teacher Carolyn Ricketts, whom he wed on December 28, 1993. The two separated in February 2007[34] and divorced in 2009.[35] They have three sons.[36][37][38]

Page was arrested for cocaine possession on July 18, 2008.[39] He was found guilty of possession and ordered to drug treatment and to stay clean for six months.[40]

Page purchased a house in Fayetteville, New York with then-girlfriend Christine Benedicto in 2009, and split his time between there and Toronto, where his children reside.[41] The couple married on July 23, 2011,[42] and spent their honeymoon in Paris.[11]

Page stated publicly in 2011 that he has bipolar disorder.[43] He said that he has gone through periods of self-medicating to relieve the symptoms.[44] After leaving Barenaked Ladies, he focused more on managing and treating his illness and cited his sons as being his source of strength for keeping healthy and continuing treatment.[35]

Other activities and interests

As of August 31, 2008, Page was a member of the marketing and events committee for World Wildlife Fund Canada.[45] As of July 2007, he was a member of WindShare, a cooperative that built/owns the wind turbine at Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto.[46]

In 2013, Page made a cameo appearance on the How I Met Your Mother episode "P.S. I Love You".[47]

Page has also been a contestant on the Canadian game show Bumper Stumpers.[48]

In December 2025, he appeared as an early 20th-century singer and guitarist named "Steven Page" in the episode "Sugar Plum Murdoch" of the CBC Television period detective series Murdoch Mysteries,[49][50] singing the song he wrote for the show, "Christmas in Toronto".[51]

Discography

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