For electoral districts with the name Victoria, or in the area of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, see Victoria (electoral districts). Victoria /vÉªkËtÉËriÉ/ is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.
Founding member of The Gap Band, bassist Robert Wilson died Sunday, according to Billboard.com. He suffered a heart attack at his home in Palmdale, California. He was 53. Known as the âGodfather of Bass Guitar,â Robert formed The Gap Band with his brothers Charlie and Ronnie in the late â60s in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Originally, they were known as the Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band, before they shortened the moniker to The Gap Band.
Glenn Frey, Singer-Songwriter and Eagles Founding Member, Dies at 67. Glenn Frey performing with the Eagles in October 1979 at the Boston Garden. Credit Ebet Roberts Glenn Frey, the guitarist, singer and songwriter who co-founded the Eagles, whose country-tinged, melodic rock tunes, wistful love ballads, philosophical anthems, observations of the outlaw life and testaments to the wages of decadence made it perhaps the leading American band of the 1970s, died on Monday in New York City. He was 67.