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Neil Donell
Neil Donell is credited on 43 releases across 30 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1986–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
43
Pressings credited
30
Albums
5
Decades active
6
In collections
Biography
Neil Donell (born May 23, 1956) is a Canadian singer who has worked extensively as a session musician and has been nominated for multiple Juno Awards. From 2018 to 2026, he was the lead tenor vocalist for the classic rock band Chicago, succeeding Peter Cetera, Jason Scheff and Jeff Coffey. Possessing a four-octave vocal range, Donell has logged more than 10,000 sessions across his career and is one of the most recorded voices in Canadian music history. He was the lead performer and background vocalist for the songs in Super Why! such as the theme song, Super Readers to the Rescue, Hip Hip Hurray and among others. Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Donell has been a resident of Toronto since the mid-1980s. He has two children.
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Credited work
43 releases · 30 albums · active 1986–2024
- Performance · 99
- Other credits · 9
- Production · 4
Studios: Inception Sound Studios · Phase One Studios · Metalworks Studios · One On One Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Chicago (2)
- Rita MacNeil
- Triumph (2)
- Matt Minglewood
- Jimmy Rankin
- Joan Kennedy
- Terry Kelly (2)
- The Good Brothers (2)
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