Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson left a deep mark on music, and his 2023 passing still feels like a loss. As Bob Dylan's lead guitarist and the primary songwriter of the Band, he shaped a whole strand of American roots music from north of the border. What moves me most is his late chapter: scoring Scorsese films and winning a film-music award in the very year he died, still creating until the end. The honors, the Order of Canada, the Walk of Fame, are deserved, but what I mourn is simply that there will be no new sounds from him. A storyteller in melody, gone too soon.

Name (English)

Robbie Robertson

Name (Japanese)

ロビー・ロバートソン

Reading

ろびー・ろばーとそん

Born

July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Goat

Origin

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Occupation

guitarist / singer-songwriter / singer / screenwriter / film score composer

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of Canada
• 2006 Governor General's Performing Arts Award
• 1989 Juno Award for Album of the Year
• 1989 Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award
• 1995 Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award
• 1999 Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year
• 2003 Canada's Walk of Fame
• 2023 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in a Feature Film

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/robbierobertsonofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/r0bbier0berts0n
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie%20Robertson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117249

Tags

• Ontario
• guitarist
• singer-songwriter
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.