Lead singer/song-writer of the band The Tragically Hip.Resides in Toronto.Downie and his fellow bandmates started out singing cover songs in bars and quickly became Canada's most popular band. Gord released his first solo album "Coke Machine Glow" in early 2001.Graduated from Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute (Kingston, ON) in 1982. His bandmates from The Tragically Hip also attended the school. He attended Ernestown Secondary School (Odessa, ON) in Grade 9 and part of Grade 10.Studied at Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.Was a goalie in minor hockey and played for a bantam team which won an Ontario championship in 1979.The Hip's song "50 Mission Cap" (From their album Fully Completely) touches on the legend of Bill Barilko, a Leafs player who scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in 1951 and disappeared on a fishing trip later that year. Though the song is about a Maple Leaf, his favorite team is the Boston Bruins (Harry Sinden, former GM of the Bruins is his God-father).The Hip's song "Wheat Kings" makes reference to David Milgaard, who spent 22 years in a Canadian prison for a 1969 murder he was eventually found not to have committed.The working title for the song "Fireworks" (from the album Phantom Power) was "Bobby Orr", after the great Boston Bruins defenceman. The goal "that everyone remembers" was Paul Henderson's winning goal during the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series. Orr did not play in the series because of one of his many knee operations.His band, The Hip's song, "Heaven Is A Better Place Today", is dedicated to Dan Snyder, the Atlanta Thrasher hockey player who was killed in a car accident last fall. Synder died in October from the wounds he suffered when, as a passenger, he was thrown from teammate Dan Heatley's Ferrari when Heatley lost control of the car, causing it to crash.