Jerry Doucette

Jerry Doucette — the award-winning guitarist and singer-songwriter known best for CanRock staple "Mama Let Him Play" — has died. Doucette di...

Keep listening to Canadian artists and keep supporting live music venues — they're the lifeblood of our industry....Mama, let them play." Published Apr 19, 2022Jerry Doucette — the award-winning guitarist and singer-songwriter known best for CanRock staple "Mama Let Him Play" — has died. Its title track, with its memorable six-string and vocal harmonies, is still in rotation on Canadian classic rock radio.

Hamilton-raised legendary classic rocker, Jerry Doucette, has died at the age of 70 following a battle with cancer.

He moved to B.C. in 1972 where he has been based out of ever since. According to a 2016 column from The Hamilton Spectator’s Graham Rockingham, Doucette’s god-fearing mother protested a young Doucette’s interest in playing the guitar. The song hit the Billboard Top 100 and Doucette and his band went on to win a Juno in 1979 for Most Promising Group of the Year. He released a total of five albums and toured extensively throughout Canada, particularly western Canada, until 2018 when he announced his retirement.

CTV News is reporting that Canadian classic rock guitarist and singer/songwriter, Jerry Doucette, died in hospice Monday (April 18), according to aa ...

His mother would tell him to be quiet, but Doucette recalled his father saying she should let him keep playing. In 1979, his band, Doucette, won a Juno for "Most Promising Group Of The Year". Doucette was born in Montreal, Quebec and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, learning to play guitar at age six.

The singer, songwriter, guitarist and Juno Award winner died April 18 of cancer at the Irene Thomas Hospice in Ladner, surrounded by family. He was 70. He's ...

Doucette released five albums as a solo artist between 1977 and 1999. Jerry makes every other player around him better,” he said. I finished the song in about an hour.” At the time, Dave McIlroy, one of the organizers, said Doucette was a brilliant guitarist who was admired by fans and loved by fellow musicians. A fundraiser was held in Tsawwassen in 2018 to help Doucette with his medical expenses following a car accident and the discovery of his heart condition. He moved to Vancouver in 1972 and played with The Seeds of Time and The Rocket Norton Band before he was signed as a solo act by the legendary Mushroom Records.

TORONTO — Canadian musician Jerry Doucette, whose smooth hits "Mama Let Him Play" and "Nobody" planted his band Doucette in the yacht rock movement of the ...

He then moved to Vancouver and joined the Seeds of Time before playing in the Rocket Norton Band. He spent his final years largely in Delta, B.C. Mama, let them play."

Vancouver guitarist and singer Jerry Doucette died at age 70 on Monday.

"When he played his guitar and rocked out to countless venues with the Doucette Band, it was then that I realized, 'Hey, it's more than just Dad,'" his son said. He joined his first band, The Reefers, at age 11 and would go on to play in Brutus, Seeds of Time, and The Rocket Norton Band. "All of a sudden, he went down in the middle of our set," Ibarra said. He just kicked it like he never did." "He'll be very missed by an awful lot of people." "With Mama Let Him Play, he went national. Longtime bandmate Mark Ibarra said the Doucette band's original lineup was his main inspiration as a drummer. "Keep listening to Canadian artists and keep supporting live music venues — they're the lifeblood of our industry," he wrote on Facebook. "Mama, let them play." "A lot of folks, like myself, were influenced by him as songwriters," Rankin told CBC News. "He was such a great guitar player, such a great singer, and such iconic songs — and a very nice guy." "He had people holding him up while he played his guitar, and he played 'Mama' like he never played it before. "To see the joy that he brought to so many is something very special and something that I will always hold close," Gerry Doucette, Jr. said in an interview Tuesday. "His music will live on forever, and hopefully he will inspire others to pick up the guitar and follow their dreams — that was a big one for him." "I was a Doucette girl," she told CBC News. "When Jerry put the guitar on, it was just magical — he took it to another level … He knew how to work a crowd.

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He then moved to Vancouver and joined the Seeds of Time before playing in the Rocket Norton Band. Despite his wife urging their son to be quiet so her husband could rest, he said: “Mama, let him play.” “He was a damn good dad to a family of five and he was a great grandfather of 10,” she said in a phone interview.

Canadian classic rock guitarist and songwriter Jerry Doucette died in hospice Monday, a statement from a family friend confirmed.

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Le musicien canadien Jerry Doucette, dont les chansons Mama Let Him Play et Nobody ont permis à son groupe «Doucette» de s'inscrire dans le mouvement ...

Il a ensuite déménagé à Vancouver et il a rejoint les Seeds of Time avant de jouer avec le Rocket Norton Band. Alors que sa femme insistait pour que le fils cesse de faire du bruit pour que son mari puisse se reposer, ce dernier répondait : «Maman, laisse-le jouer.» Jerry Doucette est né à Montréal et a grandi à Hamilton. Il a appris la guitare à l’âge de six ans et a ensuite créé son propre groupe.

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Despite his wife urging their son to be quiet so her husband could rest, he said: “Mama, let him play.” He then moved to Vancouver and joined the Seeds of Time before playing in the Rocket Norton Band. “He was just generous, funny and loving — just a really lovely guy.” “He was a damn good dad to a family of five and he was a great grandfather of 10,” she said in a phone interview. Doucette was born in Montreal and raised in Hamilton, picking up a guitar at age six and later starting his own band. “He loved playing guitar and he would play it in the house and make it loud, if he wanted to.”

Jerry Doucette was born in Montreal and raised in Hamilton, picking up a guitar at age six and later starting his own band. He then moved to Vancouver.

He spent his final years largely in Delta, B.C. “Keep listening to Canadian artists and keep supporting live music venues — they’re the lifeblood of our industry … Mama, let them play.” He then moved to Vancouver and joined the Seeds of Time before playing in the Rocket Norton Band.

TORONTO - Canadian musician Jerry Doucette, whose rock hit "Mama Let Him Play" crossed over to the United States and smooth "Nobody" planted his band ...

He then moved to Vancouver and joined the Seeds of Time before playing in the Rocket Norton Band. He spent his final years largely in Delta, B.C. Mama, let them play."