Longtime Scarborough resident Johnny Cowell has led a double life – virtuoso trumpet player with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as well as an international chart-topper who paved the way for a generation of future Canadian songwriters.
“Primarily I was a trumpet player – that was the main thing – but I got interested in writing songs and it paid off as good or better than the trumpet,” he said from his house in southeast Scarborough, which he has lived in with wife Joan now for 50 years.
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