Title: Bruce Cockburn
Content:  Bruce Douglas Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics including human rights, environmental issues, politics, and Christianity. Cockburn has written more than 350 songs on 34 albums over a career spanning 40 years, of which 22 have received a Canadian gold or platinum certification as of 2018, and he has sold over one million albums in Canada alone. In 2014, Cockburn released his memoirs, Rumours of Glory. In 2016, his album Christmas was certified 6 times platinum in Canada for sales of over 600,000.
Title: Bruce Cockburn
Content:  left 3's a Crowd in the spring of 1969 to pursue a solo career. Cockburn's first solo appearance was at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1967, and in 1969 he was a headliner. In 1970 he released his self-titled, solo album. A single, "Going to the Country", appeared on the RPM Top 50 Canadian Chart. Cockburn's guitar work and songwriting won him an enthusiastic following. His early work featured rural and nautical imagery and Biblical metaphors. Raised as an agnostic, early in his career he became a Christian. Many of his albums from the 1970s refer to Christian themes, which in turn inform his concerns for human rights and environmentalism. His references to Christianity include the Grail imagery of 20th-century Christian poet Charles Williams and the ideas of theologian Harvey Cox. In 
Title: Bruce Cockburn (album)
Content:  Bruce Cockburn is singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn's debut album. The album was originally released in 1970 and is the first album to be released by True North Records. The album received a Canadian gold record award in 1995. For his debut, the artist favors sparse arrangements, consisting primarily of Cockburn on acoustic guitar (and occasional piano and dulcimer) with some support from Dennis Pendrith on bass. The lyrics are introspective in tone, unlike the more politically charged themes Cockburn would explore later in his career.
Title: Cockburn (surname)
Content:  ; Bruce Cockburn (1945–), Canadian singer-songwriter ; Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–c. 1749), British writer ; Claud Cockburn (1904–1981), British journalist ; Claudia Cockburn (1933–1998), British activist for the disabled ; David Cockburn, Scottish coffee planter and District Collector in early 19th century Tamil Nadu, India ; David Cockburn (1941–), British philosopher ; Sir Francis Cockburn (1780–1868), British officer and colonial administrator ; George Cockburne (died 1770), British captain and Comptroller of the Navy from 1756 to 1770 ; Sir George Cockburn (1772–1853), the 10th Baronet Cockburn of Langton and British naval admiral ; George Bertram Cockburn, British chemist and pioneer aviator ; Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn (1867–1913), Canadian Army officer 
Title: Bruce Cockburn
Content: Bruce Cockburn (1970) ; High Winds, White Sky (1971) ; Sunwheel Dance (1972) ; Night Vision (1973) ; Salt, Sun and Time (1974) ; Joy Will Find a Way (1975) ; In the Falling Dark (1976) ; Further Adventures Of (1978) ; Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws (1979) Humans (1980) ; Inner City Front (1981) ; The Trouble with Normal (1983) ; Stealing Fire (1984) ; World of Wonders (1986) ; Big Circumstance (1988) ; Nothing but a Burning Light (1991) ; Christmas (1993) ; Dart to the Heart (1994) The Charity of Night (1997) ; Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (1999) ; You've Never Seen Everything (2003) ; Speechless (2005) ; Life Short Call Now (2006) ; Small Source of Comfort (2011) ; Bone on Bone (2017) ; Crowing Ignites (2019)   
Title: Bruce Cockburn
Content:  on Cockburn titled The Life and Times of Bruce Cockburn. In 2007 Cockburn received three honorary doctorates, the fourth, fifth and sixth of his career. In early May he received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and later in the month he received an Honorary Doctor of Letters at the convocation of Memorial University of Newfoundland for his lifelong contributions to Canadian music, culture and social activism. He was then awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia. Cockburn previously received honorary doctorates from York University in Toronto, Berklee College of Music, and St. Thomas University in New Brunswick. He received an Honorary Doctorate awarded by McMaster University in 2009. His most recent Honorary Doctorate was awarded by Laurentian University in 2014.
Title: Bruce Cockburn
Content:  Cockburn and his family attended. Cockburn had been listening to jazz and wanted to learn musical composition. Hall encouraged him and, along with his friend Bob Lamble, a lot of time was spent at Hall's house listening to and discussing jazz. Cockburn attended Nepean High School, where his 1964 yearbook photo states his desire "to become a musician". Nepean's music teacher at the time, Ronald E.J. Milne, said in 1988 that although Cockburn didn't take music, he could often be seen playing guitar. After graduating, he took a boat to Europe and busked in Paris. Cockburn attended Berklee School of Music in Boston, where his studies included jazz composition, for three semesters between 1964 and 1966. That year he dropped out and joined an Ottawa band called The Children, which lasted for about a year.
Title: Bruce Cockburn
Content:  for Canadian troops. He performed his 1984 song "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" and was temporarily awarded an actual rocket launcher by the military. Cockburn has stated that, while unsure of the original Invasion of Afghanistan, he supported Canada's role there. Cockburn released the studio album Small Source of Comfort in 2011. "Lois on the Autobahn", a cheerful and experiential instrumental recalling "Rouler sa bosse" from Salt, Sun and Time is a tribute to Cockburn's mother, Lois, who succumbed to cancer in 2010. In 2018, Cockburn's album Bone on Bone, was named Contemporary Roots Album of the Year at the Juno Awards.
Title: Bruce Cockburn
Content:  Through the 1980s Cockburn's songwriting became increasingly urban, global and political as he became more involved with progressive causes. His political concerns were first hinted at on the albums: Humans, Inner City Front and The Trouble with Normal. They became more evident in 1984, with his second US radio hit, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" (No. 88 in the US ) from the Stealing Fire album. He had written the song a year earlier, after visiting Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico that were attacked by Guatemalan military helicopters. His political activism continues to the present. His internationalist bent is reflected in the many world music influences in his music, including reggae and Latin music. In 1991 Intrepid Records released Kick at the Darkness, a tribute album to Cockburn whose title comes from a phrase in his song "Lovers in a Dangerous 
Title: Bruce Cockburn
Content:  Cockburn became partners with Bernie Finkelstein in the music publishing firm Golden Mountain Music. He won the Juno, for Canadian Folksinger of the Year, three years in a row, 1971–73. He was nominated for Canadian Folksinger of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year at the 1974 Juno Awards. While Cockburn had been popular in Canada for years, he did not have a big impact in the United States until 1979, with the release of the album Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws. The album's first single, "Wondering Where the Lions Are", reached No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US in June 1980, earning Cockburn an appearance on NBC's TV show Saturday Night Live. Cockburn's label, True North Records, also signed a distribution deal with Recordi Records in Italy.

Question: What is Bruce Cockburn's occupation?
Answer: composer.
singer-songwriter.
singer songwriter.
singer/songwriter.
singersongwriter.
singer-songwriter.
songwriter.
song writer.