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By Rob Gillies and Charmaine Noronha | AP By Rob Gillies and Charmaine Noronha | AP October 18

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KINGSTON, Ontario — Gord Downie, who fabricated himself allotment of Canada’s civic character with songs about hockey and baby towns as advance accompanist and songwriter of iconic bedrock bandage The Tragically Hip, has died at age 53 afterwards a action with academician cancer.

A account on the band’s website said he died Tuesday night “with his admired accouchement and ancestors abutting by.” The account did not accord a account of death, admitting he had been diagnosed beforehand with academician cancer.

Since The Tragically Hip’s ancient anthology in 1987, the bandage has provided a soundtrack for the lives of abounding Canadians. “Ahead by a Century” and “Bobcaygeon” are amid the best known.

While Canadian musicians Drake, the Weeknd and Justin Bieber accept fabricated after-effects internationally, the Tragically Hip congenital a huge afterward of die-hard acquaintance fans.

An affecting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wept in Parliament while talking about Downie on civic television in a account to reporters.

“We are beneath as a country afterwards Gord Downie in it. We all knew it was advancing but we hoped it wasn’t,” said Trudeau, his articulation breaking. “I anticipation I was activity to accomplish it through this but I’m not. It hurts. “

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Trudeau additionally said in a accounting account that “Downie baldheaded and told the belief of Canada. He was the frontman of one of Canada’s best iconic bands, a bedrock star, artist, and artist whose evocative lyrics came to ascertain a country.”

“He admired every hidden corner, every aspect of this country that he acclaimed his accomplished life. And he capital to accomplish it better,” Trudeau said in Ottawa.

Downie was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an advancing and cureless academician cancer, in December 2015. When the bandage fabricated the account accessible the afterward May, expressions of affliction caked in from beyond the country.

That aforementioned day, the bandage said it would arise a Canadian bout admitting Downie’s cancer. Tickets for the 2016 summer bout awash out about immediately, culminating in a civic advertisement of the band’s final bout stop at Kingston, Ontario. Millions acquainted in.

Downie afterwards said that he bare six teleprompters during the concert alternation so he would not balloon lyrics. But through it all, Downie remained the able showman, agitation out on date in characteristic covering suits.

“Gord knew this day was advancing — his acknowledgment was to absorb his adored time as he consistently had — authoritative music, authoritative memories and cogent abysmal acknowledgment to his ancestors and accompany for a activity able-bodied lived, generally sealing it with a kiss ... on the lips,” the Downie ancestors said in a statement.

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During his final show, Downie alleged out to Trudeau, who abounding the concert, to advice fix problems in Canada’s ancient communities.

A few months afterwards that concert, Downie appear a abandoned anthology with an accompanying clear atypical and activated blur aggressive by the tragedy of state-funded abbey schools that Canadian ancient accouchement were affected to appear from the 19th aeon until the 1970s. He said his “Secret Path” activity was aimed at Canada’s decades-long government action of acute ancient accouchement to appear residential schools, area concrete and animal corruption was generally rampant.

Born in Amherstview, Ontario, Downie said he “always had a agog ear for music” and while all the added kids were spending their allowance on baseball trading cards, he was affairs annal “from the fathers of bedrock ‘n’ roll.”

While at university, he met Paul Langlois, Rob Baker, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fray, and they formed The Tragically Hip, which started out as a awning band.

Their ancient self-titled EP was appear in 1987 and their advance admission feature album, “Up to Here,” was appear in 1989. Back again they accept appear 14 flat albums, two alive albums, one EP and 54 singles. Nine of their albums accept accomplished No. 1 in Canada. They accept accustomed abundant Canadian music awards, including 14 Juno awards, the agnate of the Grammy in Canada.

The band’s 2012 album, “Now for Plan A,” was lyrically afflicted by Downie’s wife and her acknowledged action with breast cancer.

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Downie additionally produced three abandoned albums back 2001, as able-bodied as a accord with adolescent Canadian indie darlings The Sadies.

In Kingston, area he grew up, admirers larboard flowers and lined up to assurance a book condolences while his music played in the boondocks aboveboard in advanced of burghal hall.

Fan Ted Nesbitt, who lives arctic of Toronto, said he capital to be in Kingston to pay accolade to him and say acknowledge you. In the aboveboard — area bags aggregate on Aug. 20, 2016, to watch a accessible screening of the band’s sold-out final concert — a accumulating of flowers and candles amidst a commemorative bean for the band.

“He is Canada. To me it’s the cottage, the affected fire. There are so abounding memories alert to Hip songs,” Nesbitt said. “It’s a allotment of your activity that’s gone. I’m 49 and the Hip has been a allotment of my activity back I was a teenager.”

Downie is survived by his wife and four children.

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