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Len Stoute
Leonard Stoute
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Lenny Stoute was a prolific writer who mainly focused on music journalism but also wrote travel articles and fiction. He was born on September 28, 1945 in Georgetown, Guyana. He moved to Montreal where his brother was for a few years as a young man and then moved to Toronto in the 1970s. He never married but had two children.
According to Stoute, he got his break into music writing in 1970 when he travelled to Detroit on assignment for a small music magazine to cover a Canadian band and ended up landing an interview with Bob Seeger. In the next fifty years he continued to write numerous articles for newspapers like The Globe & Mail, Eye Weekly, and the Toronto Star. In the 1990s he wrote a weekly column for the Star entitled Club Crawl. He wrote about all genres of music from rock to pop to hip hop. He even wrote about opera and classical music. He was known for his distinctive writing style and for championing indie artists.
Stoute also travelled widely and wrote travel articles about places such as Mexico, Paris, and Greece. He was a prolific photographer and wrote fiction. He self-published three fiction books: This Plague of Love, Getting to Human, and Lockdown, Tales from the Pandemic.
Stoute passed away on September 22, 2024 at the age of 78.
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Record created on March 10, 2026 by Rachel E. Beattie
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“Veteran music critic Lenny Stoute was known for his unconventional, freewheeling style: Over a career that spanned five decades, he covered everything f rom country to hip-hop, championing (and occasionally scathing) artists in a variety of publications” by Brad Wheeler, The Globe and Mail (online), Oct. 2, 2024. Accessed March 10, 2026.