Diamond in the Rough

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Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia
Biography:

The rock group Diamond in the Rough was a duo effort between songwriters and singers David Buckthorpe and Louis Nitikman. The result was a self-titled album released in 1988 under the Virgin Records label.

Buckthorpe started his life as part of a rock band in the '70s. He had some success, but after giving a decade of his life to music, he didn't feel the return he was getting was worth all of the soul and sweat it was taking. In search of a "normal" life and career, he went into business with his brother in Canada. They opened a waterbed company, and then another, and so on, making a better than decent living at it. Buckthorpe's love of music kept pulling at him while he ran his "normal" business.

It was little surprise to family and friends when Buckthorpe pooled his earnings to build a recording studio in his basement. At first he only used it to help friends, but after he began writing songs with Nitikman, that would eventually change.
-Charlotte Dillon, Allmusic