Genres rock Name Bob McBride Instruments vocals Role Vocalist | Years active 1970–1980 Associated acts Lighthouse Music group Lighthouse | |
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Similar People Skip Prokop, Paul Hoffert, Dan Clancy, Russ Little, Howard Shore | ||
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Robert Bruce "Bob" McBride (17 November 1946 – 20 February 1998) was lead vocalist for the Canadian popular music group Lighthouse.
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The Toronto-born McBride attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute and joined Lighthouse in 1970, replacing original singer Pinky Dauvin. His voice contributed to successful Lighthouse songs such as "Hats Off to the Stranger", "1849" and "One Fine Morning". He also won a 1973 Juno Award in the Outstanding Male Performance category and was nominated for a 1974 Juno in the Best Male Vocalist category.
He remained with the band until his dismissal in 1973. Tensions occurred within the band after McBride was absent during a New York recording session for the album Can You Feel It. Fellow member Skip Prokop sang the band's hit song "Pretty Lady" in his place, although Prokop believed that McBride "could have done it bigger and better".
McBride reunited along with many of the Lighthouse alumnae in September 1982 for a weekend of four concerts at Ontario Place which drew 33,000 people but at the end of the weekend the musicians went their separate ways. The band again reunited in 1992 with a ten-member line-up which included the founding members Prokop, Hoffert and Cole with McBride on vocals. McBride had become addicted to drugs, resulting in erratic performances, and he was dismissed several months later.
After his departure from Lighthouse, McBride incurred numerous illnesses, including diabetes and Hepatitis B, resulting from his years of substance abuse. He received head injuries during a robbery at his parents' residence in 1996, an incident which his friends blamed for additional health problems. He died in February 1998 at North York General Hospital in Toronto after heart failure and is buried at Westminster Memorial Gardens in Toronto. He was married to Janice Fobert-Seaton (deceased 2003) and they had one son, Shawn.