Burton Cummings

About

The artist

Burton Cummings is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and rock performer born in Winnipeg and now based in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He joined The Guess Who in the mid-1960s and became the band's lead singer and a principal songwriter. His voice, piano, flute, and writing helped shape songs including These Eyes, Laughing, No Time, American Woman, Share the Land, and Runnin' Back to Saskatoon. After the group separated in 1975, Cummings began a solo career with the 1976 album Burton Cummings. Stand Tall, I'm Scared, My Own Way to Rock, I Will Play a Rhapsody, and You Saved My Soul extended his place in Canadian pop and rock. His solo debut earned two JUNO Awards, while You Saved My Soul received the Genie Award for Best Original Song. Cummings has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, invested in the Order of Manitoba, and honoured by Canada's Walk of Fame. A Few Good Moments, released in 2024, was his first studio album in sixteen years and collected seventeen new recordings. A late-2024 interview was conducted from his Moose Jaw home. In 2026, Cummings and Randy Bachman reclaimed and toured under The Guess Who name, with Canadian and United States dates documented by the official sites and contemporary interviews. Those current activities, together with the direct Moose Jaw residence evidence and no conflicting location, support the public geography used by MusicList.