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Corey Mitchell Hart (born May 31, 1962) is a Canadian singer, best known for his hit singles "Sunglasses at Night" and "Never Surrender". He has sold over 16 million records worldwide and scored nine US Billboard Top 40 hits. In Canada Hart has amassed 30 Top 40 hits, including 11 in the Top 10, over the course of 30 years in the music industry. Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1984, Hart is also a multiple Juno award nominee and winner. He has also been honoured by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN).
Hart was born on May 31, 1962 in Montreal, Quebec, the youngest of five children. He grew up in Montreal, Spain, Mexico City and Key Biscayne, Florida as a young boy. He became fluent in three languages (English, Spanish and French) due to his upbringing in these locations. Hart's parents, Mina (Weber) and Bert Hart, separated when he was 10 years old. Hart then returned to Montreal to live with his mother and older brother Robbie. He shared an especially close relationship with his mother, to whom Hart's first album was dedicated. Hart's lack of contact and intimacy with his father pained him throughout his life and coloured many of his compositions, such as the 1998 song "Reconcile."
Along the beach I never collected shells
From my father's shore
We were raised by my mama's hand
She tried to give us more
Now seasons turn in me,
All the answers I yearn to know
Does the light shadow you,
You never let it show
Reconcile
Reconcile
Reconcile
When I was twenty two years old
I thought I owned what made me sad
You can't trade silver or buy with gold
For the times you never had
Now I'm looking out at the world
Do troubled waters
Flow from my heart?
Truth remains it's just too late
To really make a start
Reconcile
Reconcile
Reconcile (Reconcile)
Oun, reconcile me
Please reconcile me
Today I've got two kids of my own,
All I want is to do the best I can
It's all about the choices you made
I will never, I will never understand
Reconcile
Reconcile (Reconcile)
Reconcile
Reconcile me (Reconcile)
Reconcile me (Reconcile)