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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Old Man Luedecke
Person · male · Canada · Toronto
Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player
Also known as 卢德克老人
Timeline
2 events✦ Award 2
2000s
2010s
Biography
English biography164 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371405632
Biography
Old Man Luedecke () is the recording name of Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player Christopher “Chris” Rudolf Luedecke of Chester, Nova Scotia. He is most noted as a two-time Juno Award winner for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo, winning at the Juno Awards of 2009 for Proof of Love and at the Juno Awards of 2011 for My Hands are on Fire and Other Love Songs.
In 2012 Tender is the Night was released and picked up a Juno nomination as well as "Folk Album of the Year" from Music Nova Scotia.
Luedecke has also toured as a member of The Pan-Canadian New Folk Ensemble with Kim Barlow and Christine Fellows.
In 2019 he recorded an album, Easy Money, at Montreal's hotel2tango studio with local musicians Howard Bilerman and Afie Jurvanen and two Nashville-based recording artists, Tim O'Brien and Fats Kaplin.
His 2024 song "She Told Me Where to Go" appears in the soundtrack of the video game Pacific Drive.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo | won | |
| 2011 | Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Man_Luedecke_at_Hillside_2011.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7084455genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7084455seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_Luedeckebiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_Luedecke
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Canadian musicians
- List of folk musicians
- List of singer-songwriters
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Tabercil · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q7084455 · MusicBrainz: 1f860ad4-8677-4cdc-9a66-fb1f9713bd1c
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