Geddy Lee

Geddy Lee Weinrib, OC , known professionally as Geddy Lee, is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined what would become Rush in September 1968, at the request of his childhood friend Alex Lifeson, replacing original bassist and frontman Jeff Jones. Lees first solo effort, My Favourite Headache, was released in 2000.

Lee was born on July 29, 1953 in Willowdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Morris and Mary Weinrib . His parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who had survived the ghetto in their hometown Starachowice, followed by their imprisonment at Dachau and BergenBelsen concentration camps, during the Holocaust and World War II. They were aboutyears old when they were initially imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp, close to the same age as Anne Frank at that time. It was kind of surreal preteen shit, says Lee, describing how his father bribed guards to bring his mother shoes. After a period, his mother was transferred to BergenBelsen and his father to Dachau. When the war ended four years later and the Allies liberated the camps, his father set out in search of his mother and found her at a displaced persons camp. They married there and eventually immigrated to Canada.

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