Geoff was bewitched at an early age, by the singer Petula Clark and her producer and writer Tony Hatch before discovering the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel. As a youngster on Canada’s west coast, he was urged to join the British Columbia Boys Choir by his mother, a keen opera buff who taught in the North Vancouver School Board while Geoffs father was a professor on the faculty at Simon Fraser University. Id been playing in the school band, but my mum tells me I wasnt too keen on the choir until I heard one of the trained altos. After that, there was no doubt I was going to join.

In recent years, his songwriting talents have been recognized more widely. Three of his songs Love Makes No Rules, The April Place and Nowhere Town were featured in the FOX Television series Higher Ground. His skills as a songsmith have also been put to good use of late writing for an animated series as well as songs for a number of feature films.

Gibbons continues to write and record, assembling a storehouse of material in his home studio The Roots Cellar in Vancouver. His latest release Sentimental Maniac is available now on Bullseye Records.