Bag (musician)

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Bag ( spelling : BAG), actually Alex Chuaqui, (* 1958) is a Canadian musician. He co-founded the band Queen City Kids, with whom he was inducted into the Western Canada Music Hall of Fame in 2007. He released a solo album in 2005 under his pseudonym BAG .

background

Chuaqui learned to play the violin and guitar as a child . When he was twelve, he and his friends John Donnelly ( electric bass ), Kevin Fyhn (guitar) and Jeff Germain ( drums ) formed a band in 1970, which they named The VIP's on a suggestion from Donnelly's father . Chuaqui took over the vocals . The group managed to make a name for itself and, after renaming itself to Cambridge, received a contract with the artist agency The Quicksilver Talent Agency. She conveyed this to the support program for Rush .

After a change of management and another name change to Queen City Kids, the group received a recording contract with CBS Records and recorded their first album in 1981 entitled Queen City Kids , after which they supported April Wine , Ozzy Osbourne , Streetheart , Joan Jett and Blue Öyster Cult went on tour.

In January 1982 the group recorded their second album, Black Box . When this turned out to be unsuccessful, the band broke up after 13 years with the same line-up, and Alex Chuaqui became a member of Straw Dog.

Chuaqui wrote the songs Secrets and Create a Monster for the 1997 album VI by the band Loverboy . In 2004 he worked , using the pseudonym BAG for the first time , with Gene Simmons von Kiss on his solo album Asshole. Together with Simmons he wrote the titles If I Had a Gun and Dog. In 2005 he had the name BAG protected under trademark law. In the same year, the album BAG was released on Simmons' label Simmons Records , for which Chuaqui had written and composed all songs and recorded all instruments.

Discography

with Queen City Kids
  • Queen City Kids (1981)
  • Black Box (1982)
  • 1981: Live (2015)
solo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VI on discogs.com , accessed April 3, 2020
  2. ↑ Asshole on discogs.com , accessed April 3, 2020
  3. ^ Entry in the Official Gazette of the United States Trademark Office dated March 28, 2005, accessed April 3, 2020
  4. ↑ BAG on discogs.com , accessed on April 3, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Bag
ALTERNATIVE NAMES BAG (pseudonym); Chuaqui, Alex (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian musician and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1958