The Globe And Mail is reporting that producer Bob Erin Ezrin has moved to renounce his US citizenship, and has returned home to Canada.
Growing up in Toronto, veteran music producer Bob Ezrin sat in a basement listening to his uncle’s extensive collection of jazz records, trying to wrap his mind around the “myth and magic” of New Orleans and the city’s sublime musicians. His first visit to the United States was a family jaunt to New York, where he was entranced with Broadway’s bright lights and musical theatre after seeing Judy Holliday in Bells are Ringing.
“I became a student of United States history,” Ezrin says. “I was in love with the country from a young age.”
The romance is officially over. Last month, the 75-year-old dual citizen moved to renounce his US citizenship because of the rancorous political divide south of the 49th parallel. The process is lengthy, but he has already returned home to Toronto from Nashville.
“In the last few years, it seems as if America is split in half,” says the producer of Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Lou Reed’s Berlin. “The voices of a radical right have become so much louder. Conspiracy theories abound, people are armed to the teeth, and it’s just a different place than the place I went to.”
Ezrin and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1985. In addition to producing such albums as Kansas’s In The Spirit Of Things and Rod Stewart’s Every Beat Of My Heart, he became involved in the community, serving as chair of the California Mentoring Partnership and Los Angeles Communities in Schools. He helped distribute food from the basement of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles.
With U2 guitarist the Edge, he co-founded Music Rising, an initiative to replace musical instruments lost in natural disasters. A year after the calamitous flooding in New Orleans caused by 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, Ezrin produced a concert for the re-opening of the city’s SuperDome.
“I was very engaged, very involved, very committed,” says Ezrin, who became a US citizen in the 1990s in order to vote. “I believed in the country and I believed in the American people, in spite of things like the Iraq War and the income inequality I saw growing, and in spite of the racism that was knitted into the fabric of American life. I still believed the goodness of the majority of Americans would prevail.”
Read the full report at theglobeandmail.com.
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Growing up in Toronto, veteran music producer Bob Ezrin sat in a basement listening to his uncle’s extensive collection of jazz records, trying to wrap his mind around the “myth and magic” of New Orleans and the city’s sublime musicians. His first visit to the United States was a family jaunt to New York, where he was entranced with Broadway’s bright lights and musical theatre after seeing Judy Holliday in Bells are Ringing.
“I became a student of United States history,” Ezrin says. “I was in love with the country from a young age.”
The romance is officially over. Last month, the 75-year-old dual citizen moved to renounce his US citizenship because of the rancorous political divide south of the 49th parallel. The process is lengthy, but he has already returned home to Toronto from Nashville.
“In the last few years, it seems as if America is split in half,” says the producer of Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Lou Reed’s Berlin. “The voices of a radical right have become so much louder. Conspiracy theories abound, people are armed to the teeth, and it’s just a different place than the place I went to.”
Ezrin and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1985. In addition to producing such albums as Kansas’s In The Spirit Of Things and Rod Stewart’s Every Beat Of My Heart, he became involved in the community, serving as chair of the California Mentoring Partnership and Los Angeles Communities in Schools. He helped distribute food from the basement of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles.
With U2 guitarist the Edge, he co-founded Music Rising, an initiative to replace musical instruments lost in natural disasters. A year after the calamitous flooding in New Orleans caused by 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, Ezrin produced a concert for the re-opening of the city’s SuperDome.
“I was very engaged, very involved, very committed,” says Ezrin, who became a US citizen in the 1990s in order to vote. “I believed in the country and I believed in the American people, in spite of things like the Iraq War and the income inequality I saw growing, and in spite of the racism that was knitted into the fabric of American life. I still believed the goodness of the majority of Americans would prevail.”
Read the full report at theglobeandmail.com.
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