Corey Hart
Corey Mitchell Hart is a Canadian singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist working in the new wave genre, born in Montreal on May 31, 1962.
Hart attended St. George's School of Montreal before going on to study at Marianopolis College, laying the educational foundation for a career that would develop in the English-language popular music scene. Working as both a performer and a composer, he built a body of work rooted in the new wave style that emerged as a defining sound of his era. His roles as pianist and songwriter placed him among those artists who contributed to the genre from multiple creative positions simultaneously.
Over the course of his career, Hart received recognition through several significant awards. He was nominated for and won Juno Awards, Canada's foremost music honours, and also received the CASBY Award, which recognized Canadian artists based on audience voting. These acknowledgments situated him within the broader landscape of Canadian popular music during the period in which he was most active.
Hart was later inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame, a distinction granted to Canadians who have achieved recognition in their respective fields. His listing in the Library of Congress under the authorized label "Hart, Corey" further marks his standing as a documented figure in the recorded music catalogue. His output as a new wave artist, delivered in English and produced across multiple creative roles — singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist — remains the consistent thread running through his professional identity.
Quotes by Corey Hart

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley – grapple with it that way – but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

Music was my oxygen. It’s what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

When I sit down at a piano, I feel what's going on in my life and what led up to it. Certain songs are born from that motivation.

Above these universal themes Truth Will Set U Free is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

And I wear my sunglasses at night So I can so I can Keep track of the visions in my eyes

Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual’s inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination,



