Neil Harnett

Neil Harnett, sometimes credited in his early career as Neil James Harnett, is a Canadian blues rock singer-songwriter from White Rock, British Columbia, most noted as a Juno Award nominee for Most Promising Male Vocalist at the Juno Awards of 1990.

He began his career as a guitarist in Matt Minglewood's band. He was also a songwriter for other artists in this era, but was not a recording artist in his own right; his career received a significant boost in 1988 when his song "Ain't Good Lovin' Enough" was recorded by both the pop-rock band Diamond in the Rough and the country band Alibi. He supported the album with a Canadian tour as an opening act for The Doobie Brothers, and received radio airplay for the singles "Times Like These" and "That's What I Need".

By early 1991, however, Penta Records filed for bankruptcy, leaving Harnett's career in limbo for several years.

In 1992 his song "Lazy River" was included on Canadian Blues Masters, a K-Tel compilation of Canadian blues musicians.

He reemerged in 1996 with his second album Rubber Room Day.

In 2013 he launched a YouTube channel devoted to brain injury awareness, with one of the first videos he posted to the channel being a duet with his daughter on a song they wrote together about her recovery. In the same year he organized a benefit concert for Semiahmoo House Society, a charitable organization serving people with disabilities in White Rock and Surrey.