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RIP: Canadian Country Star Ronnie Prophet

“Ronnie” (Ronald Lawrence Victor) Prophet passed away on March 2, at his home in Florida.

RIP: Canadian Country Star Ronnie Prophet

By FYI Staff

“Ronnie” (Ronald Lawrence Victor) Prophet, the Canadian-born country musician and comedy performer, passed away on March 2, at his home in Florida earlier today (March 2) following cardiac and kidney failure. He was 80.


The Quebec-born country star performed in numerous Canadian television productions in the 1970s including Grand Old Country and The Ronnie Prophet Show.

He was based in Branson, Missouri, and was married to singer Glory-Anne Carriere.

Between the ‘70s and ‘80s, he won two Juno Awards and was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.

Between 1973 and 1992, Prophet had 11 Canadian Top 20 hits and three Top 50 hits in the US. In 1984, with his wife, he had two Top 10 hits with “If This Is Love” and “I’m Glad We’re Bad At Something.”

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Lou Christie (Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco), one of the most beloved teen pop idols of the 1960s and the voice and songwriter behind Billboard Hot 100-topper “Lightnin’ Strikes,” died on June 18, after a long illness. He was 82 years old.

ABillboard obituary reports that the Pennsylvania-born singer "Christie soared to fame in the early ’60s with hits such as 'The Gypsy Cried' and 'Two Faces Have I,' the latter of which reached No. 6 on the Hot 100 in 1963. The star’s biggest hit came three years later, when 'Lightnin’ Strikes' ascended to the chart’s summit, but he would still score a top 10 smash years later in 1969 with 'I’m Gonna Make You Mine.'"

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