Guitarist and singer/songwriter Alan Frew is probably best known as the lead singer of the award-winning rock group Glass Tiger. He has also issued a few solo recordings, and began a solo career during the 1990s when the band was inactive. Alan Frew was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and mostly raised there. When he was 16 he moved with his family to Canada. Singing for family and friends motivated him to begin performing in local bars and soon he was practicing on the guitar and writing his own songs, preparing to make an attempt at a career in music. In 1980, Frew joined a Newmarket, Ontario alternative pop/rock-style band called Tokyo as their lead singer. Other members were guitarist Al Connelly, keyboardist and singer Sam Reid, drummer and singer Michael Hanson, bassist Wayne Parker, and later drummer Randall Coryell. The group spent four years playing clubs in Toronto building a fan base before manager Derek Sutton found them. The result was a deal with Capital Records, a name change from Tokyo to Glass Tiger, and a 1986 debut album, The Thin Red Line. Over the next three years, Frew recorded a long list of singles and a number of albums as part of Glass Tiger. The group also won three Juno Awards for their work, and a couple of Grammy nominations as well. Tours through Canada, the United States, and Europe brought the band, and Frew, plenty of exposure. Following Glass Tiger's 1991 full-length Simple Mission, Alan Frew went solo and completed two albums under the EMI label: Hold On in 1994 and Wonderland in 2000. Glass Tiger reactivated in 2003, and released two studio albums in the late 2010s. ~ Charlotte Dillon