Born: Sep 27, 1943 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genre: Rock
Styles: Soft Rock, Album Rock
Instruments: Guitar, Vocals

Randy Bachman is a Canadian rock guitarist and singer. He was born in Winnipeg and was a member of Chad Allen and the Expressions, which evolved into the Guess Who, the most successful Canadian rock band of the 1960s. He left the Guess Who in July 1970, made a solo album, Axe, and then formed Brave Belt, which evolved by 1972 into Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO). He left BTO in April 1977, made a second solo album, Survivor (1978), and then launched a new band, Ironhorse in 1979, but was back touring with the Guess Who in 1983 and then with BTO by 1984.

-William Ruhlmann (All Music Guide)