Background
Donnelly was born and raised in Vancouver and North Delta, playing hockey from the age of 12.
Donnelly was born and raised in Vancouver and North Delta, playing hockey from the age of 12.
Armed with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia, he began singing national anthems for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League while working for a Scranton, Pennsylvania parish.
Donnelly is well known for holding the microphone to the crowd and encouraging the crowd to sing along. After he and his family moved back to Vancouver, he started doing the same for the Vancouver Canucks beginning in 2001. He made a cameo appearance in the television show Psychology, playing an opera singer in the season four premiere episode "Extradition: British Columbia", and then another cameo appearance as a singer in the final episode "Apotheosis" of the science fiction series Caprica.
He is a staunch supporter of the Canadian pro-life movement.