Born: Dawson Creek, BC
Guitar slinger Roy Forbes was born in Dawson Creek, British Columbia as the only boy in a family of six sisters, and was given the nickname Bim. In the mid-70's went to Vancouver with nothing but a voice, a pocket full of songs and guitar.
He kept the Bim name for stage and recording work and a local buzz began to spill over nationally and internationally. Albums like 'Kid Full Of Dreams", 'Raincheck On Misery', 'Thistles' and the acoustic 'Anything You Want' accompanied Bim on an endless series of concert and festival tours.
By the mid-'80's Roy Forbes had grown up and dropped his childhood moniker and released projects like a Christmas album with Connie Kaldor, his rootsy/rock record 'Love Turns To Ice' and, in the 1992, the country album 'The Human Kind'.
In 1995 a stripped down revisit to the Bim years was incorporated into 'Almost Overnight'. Forbes also managed to squeeze in two collaborative CDs as part of the trio UHF with Shari Ulrich and Bill Henderson (Chilliwack).
In recent years Forbes has been in the producer's seat helping Connie Kaldor, Mark Perry, Faith Nolan, Rob Widdowson. His songs are also featured on Sesame Street and he's done soundtracks for Nettie Wild's 'Blockade' and the six part TV mini-series 'Eye Level'.
Forbes is also much in demand as a songwriter and has had many others artists record his songs such as Cindy Church, Sylvia Tyson, Montreal's Hart Rouge, children's entertainer Norman Foote, and popular bluegrassers Kathy Kallick and Laurie Lewis. Roy also hosts the occasional 'Snap, Crackle, Pop' CBC radio program playing material from his own record collection.
Singles
as ROY FORBES
1975 Me And My Baby (Casino)
1976 Can't Catch Me (Casino)
1982 Anything You Want/Tough Times (Stony Plain)
1988 Away From Me (AKA)
Albums
as BIM
1975 Kid Full Of Dreams (Casino)
1976 Raincheck On Misery (Casino)
1978 Thistles (Elektra)
1981 Christmas Jam (RCI)
1982 Anything You Want (Stony Plain)
as ROY FORBES
1985 New Songs For An Old Celebration (Aural Tradition/Festival) [performed with Connie Kaldor & Norm MacPherson]
1987 Love Turns To Ice (AKA)
1992 The Human Kind (AKA)
1995 Almost Overnight (AKA)
with UHF
1990 UHF (Tangible)
1994 UHF II (Tangible)
Video
Compilation Tracks
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