Peter Pringle

Peter Pringle (born September 7, 1945) is a Canadian musician and television personality, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. financing his studies by writing pop songs.

There have been occasional erroneous claims made in internet forums that Pringle's real name is David Murray, and that he is Anne Murray's brother. While Anne Murray did have a brother named David, he was a surgeon rather than a musician, and he died in 2021.

Recording Pringle moved to Los Angeles in 1975, and released his self-titled debut album the following year. 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.

In 1986, he garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Cold As Ice", a song he co wrote with Kevin Hunter, for the soundtrack to the film Toby McTeague; a minor controversy resulted when the song was mistakenly omitted from the first round of ballots sent out to Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television voters, forcing the Academy to send out replacement ballots. and hosted television variety specials for TVA. 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. His recording of the initial verses of the Epic of Gilgamesh, specifically Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, has over 13 million views as of March 2026.

Acting In 1987, Pringle premiered a one-man theatrical show in which he portrayed Noël Coward, mixing a dramatic monologue with performances of Coward's songs. He toured the show across Canada several times over the next number of years, as well as creating and performing several other musical revue shows, including From Irving Berlin to Gilles Vigneault, a show based on the biblical Song of Songs In 1994, he also appeared as Duncan in a production of Wendy Wasserstein's play The Sisters Rosensweig.

Theremin Pringle released a compilation album, Comme j'étais - comme je suis!, in 1996, and then retired from recording or performing pop music.

By 1998, Pringle began to reemerge as a theremin player. He has released two independent albums of theremin music, has performed on the instrument both in solo shows and with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra,

Discography Peter Pringle (1976) Rain Upon The Sea (1981) Magicien (1981) Fifth Avenue Blue (1982) Pour Une Femme (1982) Souris-Moi (1984) Fantasies (1984) Chansons d'amour (1984) Pauvre Casanova (1985) Noel Coward: A Portrait (1987) Le Jeu d'amour (1991) Le Secret du Cantique des Cantiques (1992) Comme j'étais - comme je suis! (1996) Many Voices (2003) A Theremin Jewel Box Dancing Alone (2021)