If anything, being married adds to the sense of genuineness that Lightburn projects, both in his lyrics and his speech. While some people prefer to think of him as a latter-day Rimbaud pining away by ...

Murray A. Lightburn, the longtime frontman of Montreal’s acclaimed The Dears, returned last month to announce his latest solo album, the deeply personal Once Upon A Time In Montreal, arriving ...

Lightburn is joined on the album by Dears drummer Jeff Luciani and a host of Montreal jazz talents, with the music of Once Upon a Time in Montreal drawing on the folk, jazz and pop sounds of the ...

His father, William Lightburn, was an immigrant who moved to Montreal from Belize via New York in the 1960s, playing saxophone in jazz combos before becoming a Pentecostal minister.