Pat Travers

Pat Travers is a Canadian rock guitarist, singer and songwriter who began his recording career in the mid-1970s. Travers was born and raised in Toronto.[3] Soon after picking up the guitar at age 12, he saw Jimi Hendrix perform in Ottawa. Travers began playing in bands early in his teens; his first bands were the Music Machine (not to be confused with the Californian psychedelic/garage band of the same name), Red Hot, and Merge, which played in clubs in the Quebec area.