Editing Leon Redbone (section)

==Early life==
Redbone was elusive about his origins, and never explained the origin of his stage name.<ref name=pugh/>  According to a ''[[Toronto Star]]'' report in the 1980s, he came to Canada in the mid-1960s, and changed his name via the [[Name change#Canada|Ontario Change of Name Act]].<ref name=Quill>Quill, Greg. [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/224606 "Redbone careful to preserve the mystery."] ''[[Toronto Star]]'' (The Star.com) June 13, 2007.</ref>  Biographical research published in 2019 corroborated his birth name, and confirmed that his family was of [[Armenians|Armenian]] origin.<ref name=pugh/> His parents lived in [[Jerusalem]],<ref name=nytobit/> but fled in 1948 for [[Nicosia]], Cyprus, where Redbone was born.  By 1961, the family had moved to London, England, and by 1965 to Toronto.<ref name=pugh/>