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Geddy Lee Weinrib (born Gary Lee Weinrib, July 29, 1953), , known professionally as Geddy Lee, is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined what would become Rush in September 1968, at the request of his childhood friend Alex Lifeson, replacing original bassist and frontman Jeff Jones. Lee's first solo effort, ''My Favourite Headache'', was released in 2000. An award-winning musician, Lee's style, technique, and skill on the bass guitar have inspired many rock musicians such as Cliff Burton of Metallica,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/Interviews/1986_cliff.htm )〕 Steve Harris of Iron Maiden, John Myung of Dream Theater,〔(【引用サイトリンク】John Myung on being named greatest bassist of all time ) 〕 and Les Claypool of Primus.〔("You Say It's Your Birthday: Les Claypool of Primus" ) Addicted to Noise〕 Along with his Rush bandmates – guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart – Lee was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996. The trio was the first rock band to be so honoured, as a group.〔("Rush highlights" ), MapleMusic (accessed May 23, 2007).〕 Lee is ranked 13th by ''Hit Parader'' on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal vocalists of all time. Lee was voted the best bassist in rock by WatchMojo.com. ==Early life== Lee was born Gary Lee Weinrib on July 29, 1953 in Willowdale, (North York) Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Morris and Mary Weinrib (née Manya Rubenstein).〔 His parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who had survived liquidation of the ghetto in their hometown Starachowice, followed by their imprisonment at Dachau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, during the Holocaust and World War II. They were about 13 years old when they were initially imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp, close to the same age as Anne Frank at that time.〔 "It was kind of surreal pre-teen shit," says Lee, describing how his father bribed guards to bring his mother shoes. After a period, his mother was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and his father to Dachau. When the war ended four years later and the Allies liberated the camps, his father set out in search of his mother and found her at a displaced persons camp. They married there and eventually immigrated to Canada.〔Hiatt, Brian. "From Rush With Love", ''Rolling Stone'', July 2, 2015 p. 45〕 In Canada, Lee's parents gave him a Jewish education, with a bar mitzvah at age 13. His father was a skilled musician, but died the year before from medical problems resulting from his imprisonment.〔 This forced his mother to find outside work to support three children.〔 Lee feels that not having parents at home during those years was probably a factor in his becoming a musician: "It was a terrible blow that I lost him, but the course of my life changed because my mother couldn't control us." He turned his basement into practice space for a band he formed with high-school friends. After the band began earning income from small performances at high-school shows or other events, he decided to drop out of high school and play rock and roll professionally. His mother was devastated when he told her, and he still feels that he owes her for the disappointments in her life. "All the shit I put her through," he says, "on top of the fact that she just lost her husband. I felt like I had to make sure that it was worth it. I wanted to show her that I was a professional, that I was working hard, and wasn't just a fuckin' lunatic."〔 Today, Lee considers himself a cultural Jew. ''Jweekly'' featured Lee's reflections on his mother's experiences as a refugee, and of his own Jewish heritage.〔 Lee's name, ''Geddy'', was derived from his mother's heavily accented pronunciation of his given first name, ''Gary''. This was picked up by his friends in school, leading Lee to adopt it as his stage name and later his legal name. After Rush had become a widely recognized rock group, Lee told the story about his mother's early life to the group's drummer and lyricist, Neil Peart, who decided to write lyrics based on her life for a song, "Red Sector A." The song, for which Lee wrote the music, was released on the band's 1984 album ''Grace Under Pressure''. The lyrics include the following verse: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geddy Lee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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