Peter Pringle (born September 7, 1945) is a Canadian musician and television personality,[1] most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s.
[3] Pringle moved to Los Angeles in 1975, and released his self-titled debut album the following year.
[1] In 1985, he participated in the recording of "Les Yeux de la faim", a French-language charity single for the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia, alongside musicians such as René Simard, Nathalie Simard, André Gagnon, Yvon Deschamps, Gilles Vigneault, Nanette Workman and Patsy Gallant,[4] and in 1986 he was one of the performers at Canada's first major benefit concert for HIV/AIDS, alongside Michel Louvain, Joe Bocan, Denny Christianson and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
[1] Since 2007 he has gained recognition online for performing ancient epics and poems on his Youtube channel.
[8] He uses a wide variety of instruments from the lyre to the hurdy-gurdy and performs many of these poems in their original ancient languages.