So it worked, but as life meandered on into the mid-to-late-’80s, I kept putting ‘Bim, aka Roy Forbes’ on my posters, and finally just one day I just switched it around.”įorbes started recorded under his real name with the 1987 album Love Turns to Ice, and by that time he was already a fixture on the Canadian folk music scene, known for his high, keening voice and his acoustic blues and traditional country stylings.
Later on there was Valdy, Ferron…and Raffi of course. “It was one of my childhood nicknames,” says Forbes on the phone from his North Van home, “and you know in the early ’70s it seemed like a good idea to be Bim. Roy Forbes is celebrating 50 years in the music business right now, because back in 1971–18 years old and fresh out of Dawson Creek–he showed up in Vancouver to launch his career as a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.īack then, though, he was better known as Bim.
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