Debbie Clarke - Lead/Backup Vocals Email Debbie

Debbie is a self taught vocalist with many years of experience. She has performed with several local bands most notably with "Raw Faith" and more recently with "Vintage" in a lead/backup vocal capacity. She likes singing most genres of music and loves to entertain. In her spare time she enjoys hosting Karaoke. Her range is very impressive, her voice has an edge and blends very well with the Starfire front line. Both her enthusiasm and passion for singing have made her a welcome addition to the team!

 

Greg McIvor - Lead/Backup Vocals & MIDI Programming Email Greg

Greg has many years of experience in music, starting as a bass player with several rock bands as a teen. He moved onto Caribbean music starting with the Melting Pot Band as a bass player and vocalist. He progressed to guitar and then onto trumpet when the band was restructured into "The Carivibes". Greg left Carivibes in 1994 to work on MIDI programming and started Starfire. Greg enjoys performing all types of music and can sing just about any style.

 

Jennifer Goodman - Lead/Backup Vocals Email Jennifer

Jennifer is an outstanding backup vocalist having performed in church choirs for many years. Jennifer sings alto with the Blackburn Chorus, a community choir of 75 voices. Her gift of harmony, her range and pitch are noticeable in the vocal parts of Starfire's music. She enjoys music and takes piano lessons weekly. With her prior knowledge of many different genres of music, she has very quickly picked up and enhanced Starfire's vocal sound!

 

Norm Slatter - Bass Guitar Email Norm

As our newest member, Norm is a life-long bass player and songwriter who has played in many local bands over the years in the Ottawa area. His love for strong bass lines (it's called funk guys - not Disco !) and vocal harmonies attracted him to Starfire. When not playing with the band, Norm can be found in the bowels of his home studio working on the next "sure fire hit" - well... maybe not a hit, but he's working on something that sounds good to his ears.

 

Normand Matte - Guitar Email Normand

Normand is having fun bending those strings to perform your favorite licks and riffs that you've been waiting to hear. From the six string acoustic guitar in his younger years, to twelve string picking and then gone electric (not mad though), he's played them all; great fit for the diversity of music played by Starfire.

Throughout the years, Normand has been a self-taught musician and then the urge to express his talent to the world came about...something about being over forty is our best guess...but whatever the source is, we like it!

 

Robert LeFort - Percussion Email Robert

Robert has been passionate about music all his life and started banging on furniture as a young child and eventually began playing drums at the early age of 12. Having grown up on the East Coast in a musical family where his father and brother were both professional music teachers in Cape Breton Island, it was no wonder that music ran rampantly through his veins. Robert spent 13 years living and playing drums in Toronto bars with bands such as Relic and Black Diesel before moving to Ottawa in February of 2005. His drumming has recently evolved into percussive instruments and you'll be able to see him playing the congas and grooving to the tunes at the next Starfire show.