Terry Baine

Canadian-Norwegian singer-songwriter Terry Baine was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  He performed his first professional gig at the “The Rathskeller”, a pub at McMaster University in Hamilton during the time he was a student there studying Chemistry.  He later performed at Festival of Friends, an annual three-day free summer music festival held in Gage Park in Hamilton. 

In 1982, Baine joined CUSO (Canadian University Service Overseas) and was posted to a small village in Nigeria to teach chemistry and mathematics.  His experiences during his two years in Nigeria and a subsequent backpacking trip to other parts of Africa and to Asia provided the inspiration for many of the songs on his first two albums, Fourth World (1989) and Hamilton Operator (1998). 

Upon moving to Ottawa in 1985, Baine obtained a teaching degree at the University of Ottawa and started teaching high school, all the while continuing to perform at various clubs, including the then legendary Rasputin's Folk Café.  In 1988, Terry met Ottawa-based music producer and bassist Phillip Victor Bova with whom he recorded his first album, Fourth World.  In 1991, Baine produced, independently, the music video for the song Why Don't We Save It? from Fourth World.  Directed by Juno Award winner Anthony Seck (a former student of Terry’s), the video gained critical acclaim in Canada. Later in the 90's, Baine and Bova would again collaborate to produce and record Baine's second album, Hamilton Operator. 

Now based in Norway, Baine has performed in multiple clubs in Oslo, has continued teaching science and mathematics, and somehow found the time to work at CERN in Geneva as their Teacher-in-Residence. 

In January 2022, Baine released his first album in over two decades, A Little Madness, his third collaboration with Phillip Victor Bova. 

Since mid-2022, Terry has been collaborating with the award-winning UK filmmaker Raphael Assaf. They have thus far produced music videos for the songs A Road Ahead (from A Little Madness) and Confrontation/I Am My Father, which uses music from Fourth World. 

In January of 2025, Terry Baine released his fourth album, Waiting For Euterpe, again with Phillip Victor Bova producing.  And, in April of 2025, Baine released his cover version of the classic 1969 single by The Who, Pinball Wizard.
 

“Terry Baine is a wandering minstrel of the world and chronicles what he sees in song…” 
Sandra Abma, CBC, Ottawa, Canada 

“…the lyrical strength of the songs, melodies and the musicality are the highlights…” 
Chopper McKinnon, CKCU FM, Ottawa, Canada 

“Terry Baine is a multi-faceted musician who uses his powerful voice and his grace and elegance on the guitar to communicate his music. An engaged and engaging singer-songwriter with a great talent for both storytelling and composing” 
Jon Arnesen, Rock Furore Magazine, Norway