Rik Emmett
Rik holds true to his dreams of the magical power of the music, and shares that with every audience, of every stripe, every night that he performs.
Multi-dimensional singer/songwriter Rik Emmett
is a Canadian musical legend, a JUNO winner, JUNO Hall of Fame, Canadian Rock Hall of Fame member and original member of the iconic rock band Triumph. He has a unique sound from classical to jazz to acoustic pop & folk through to the hard rock, that established his reputation.
Rik Emmett started as a relatively unknown singer/songwriter/guitarist on the local Toronto scene in September of 1975 when he joined a newly formed hard rock trio called Triumph.
By 1979 three albums had gone platinum in Canada and two charted in the States, receiving serious radio airplay. By 1981 Triumph was firmly established as one of the premier touring rock acts in North America, with generous FM radio airplay support and heavy rotation on the MTV cable channel.
In the next seven years, the band released ten gold albums, with four turning platinum in Canada. In the U.S., two went gold. Emmett’s name frequently appeared in guitar magazine polls and he won several prestigious awards, including Best Lead Guitarist nationally in 1981.
He left the band to begin a solo career in 1988, but as one of the band’s original members, was inducted into the Canadian Rock Hall of Fame in 1993, the Music Industry Hall of Fame in 2007, and the JUNO Hall of Fame in 2008. Triumph reunited for concerts in Sweden and Oklahoma in the summer of 2008.
A guitar magazine once wrote that Rik Emmett was “… his own worst enemy. He’s one of the only guitarists out there who may be too talented for his own damn good”.
Rik holds true to his dreams of the magical power of the music, and shares that with every audience, of every stripe, every night that he performs.
