Chris Houston is a Canadian punk rock musician and songwriter, who was in the band the Forgotten Rebels[1] in the late 1970s.
Following the band's album This Ain't Hollywood, he left to pursue a solo career.
He recorded songs for four of the five It Came from Canada compilation albums, including a solo rendition of "Surfin' on Heroin".
He released his solo debut Chris Houston and the Sex Machine domestically as a vinyl LP in 1986 on label Caucasian Records.
for a spell, working as a writer for the CBC Television teen series Pilot One,[5] and now lives and performs in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.