Early Life
According to the Toronto Star report in the 1980s, his birth name is Dickran Gobalian, he came to Canada from Cyprus in the mid-1960s and changed his name via Ontario, Change of Name Act. However, an article about producer John H. Hammond in a 1973 issue of the Canadian Jazz magazine Coda states that he was a native of Philadelphia who moved to Toronto "Sitting next to Hammond was a young white musician named Leon Redbone from Philadelphia, but currently residing in Toronto".
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