Daniel MacMaster

{{short description|Canadian singer}}

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| birth_name = Daniel Stewert MacMaster

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1968|7|16}}

| birth_place = Barrie, Ontario, Canada

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| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|3|16|1968|7|11}}

| death_place = Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

| genre = Hard rock, glam metal

| occupation = Vocalist

| instrument = Vocals, keyboards, harmonica, tambourine

| years_active = 1988–2008

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| past_member_of = Bonham
Scorcher
Emerald Monkey
Monkey Macmaster

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Daniel Stewart MacMaster (July 11, 1968 – March 16, 2008) was a Canadian singer, who was lead vocalist for the Canadian/British hard rock band Bonham.

Career

With Bonham, he released two albums: 1989's The Disregard of Timekeeping (which peaked at Number 38 on the Billboard charts) and 1992's Mad Hatter. In 2001, Daniel was looking to put a new project together, starting with guitarist Stefano Fantin, and a string of small club dates were performed in the Barrie area, though, due to musical differences, they parted ways. In 2005, Daniel released a solo album entitled Rock Bonham...And The Long Road Back which was re-issued by Suncity Records in 2006.{{cite web|title=DANIEL MACMASTER INTERVIEW|url=http://www.sleazeroxx.com/interviews/macmasterint.shtml|publisher=SleazeRoxx.com|accessdate=July 23, 2012|date=January 25, 2006}} Later, MacMaster started a new project with Connecticut-based singer-songwriter Jimmy D of the band Emerald Monkey, dubbed Monkey-MacMaster. The group was planning on releasing music and playing shows; in addition MacMaster had been working on his own material. However, neither of these projects were completed due to MacMaster's death.

Death

MacMaster died from a Group A streptococcal infection, which he thought was a cold, after developing sepsis, at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, on March 16, 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=93107 |title=BLABBERMOUTH.NET – DANIEL MACMASTER's Cause Of Death Revealed |publisher=Roadrunnerrecords.com |accessdate=July 23, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607014515/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=93107 |archivedate=June 7, 2011 }} He was married and had two children, Kaleb and Aryanna.

Discography

=Studio albums=

  • Rock Bonham... And the Long Road Back (2005)

=with Bonham=

=with Scorcher=

  • No Thanks (1994)

=Guest appearances=

  • Emerald Monkey – Heroes of the Night – A Tribute to KISS (2008)

References

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