Background
He was born in 1956 in Coatbridge, Scotland.
He was born in 1956 in Coatbridge, Scotland.
He has appeared on many television specials, raises money for various causes and continues to perform around Canada as a solo artist, and as the lead singer for Glass Tiger. Frew has five Canadian Juno Awards, five Canadian Classic Awards and was nominated for a Grammy. In addition to being a singer-songwriter he is an actor and public speaker.
An avid soccer fan, in mid-2008 he recorded a reworked version of "My Town" about Toronto Football Club. He is also an avid Rangers F.C. Fan.
He also wrote the song "Free to Be" which is used by the Toronto Maple Leafs as their theme song. The song was mixed at Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario.
On August 20, 2015, Frew suffered a stroke causing trauma to his right side. In cooperation with his music publisher ole Music Publishing, Alan actively songwrites and collaborates with: Monty Powell, Bruce Wallace, Johnny Reid, Gerald O"Brien, Denny Scott, Kenny Scott on YouTube, Liz Rodriguez, Sean Andrews, Marty Dodson and Dave Kopatz to name a few.
In 2008 Frew teamed up with songwriter Stephan Moccio to write "I Believe", the theme song of CTV"s Canada"s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Three versions of the song "I Believe" were written and recorded. An English-language version sung by Montreal jazz singer Nikki Yanofsky, a French-language version ("J"imagine") sung by Quebec artist Annie Villeneuve, and an instrumental version by Moccio. On 26 January 2010 an European Parliament titled "I Believe/J’imagine – CTV’s 2010 Winter Games Theme Song" was released on iTunes Canada.
The European Parliament contained all three versions of the song.
The strings component of the song English language as sung by Nikki Yanofsky involved the orchestral arrangement and conduction of William Ross, at the Fox Studios in Los Los Angeles Grammy winning engineer Armin Steiner engineered the recording.
On 1 March 2010 "I Believe", covered by Nikki Yanofsky, had sold over 90,000 digital units in Canada. Alan Frew wrote The Action Sandwich: A Six Step Recipe for Success by Doing What You"re Already Doing (), a 2007 autobiography with co-writer Sharon Brennan.
Frew portrayed the character Ewan McCauley in the 2010 Canadian comedy film GravyTrain.