Blair Richard Martin was born in Toronto, August 2, 1959. His parents were originally from England and had come to North America in 1955, living in Halifax and Toronto before spending the years 1960-1970 in the U.S.A.

Blair was always interested in music and art. Being profoundly impressed at having seen the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, at the age of 5, he remembers going to school the next morning and depicting what he had seen in a drawing.

He began playing drums at the age of 11 and in his late teens, Blair played in local group, the Androids, a first wave punk band led by Bart Lewis and Sally Cato – who later formed N.Y. metal band, Smashed Gladys.

After a couple of years – and having eventually split from the Androids – he moved from drums to lead vocals fronting a short-lived pop/punk group, the Heartbeats.

Eventually, he started writing songs and at the end of 1980 – and filled with a new found confidence in his abilities – Blair, along with teenage friend, Ken Fox – started the Raving Mojos, a band that would become a solid fixture in the emerging second-wave hardcore/ punk music scene.

This particular era would be remembered nearly 40 years later in the award winning book, Tomorrow is Too Late e (UXB Press) in which it was written of the “Mojos“: “Should have been huge”

.Besides the regular in-town headliners the “Mojos” opened for The Ramones, The Cramps, Hanoi Rocks, Richard Hell, as well as local bands, The Viletones and Teenage Head.

The group broke up after five years.

In 1986 he joined legendary Hamilton rock ‘n’ roll group, Teenage Head, as drummer.

In the mid 1990s, Blair developed a passion for traditional Cuban music, studied the percussion instruments and founded Klave y Kongo; originally a nine piece son group inspired by the traditional Cuban music revival of the 1990s and that was crucial to the development of a world music in Toronto.

At the outset of the 2000’s, Blair reunited with Kurt Schefter to record and produce a Raving Mojos CD (The Last Rock’n’Roll Show Ever!!) and the group went on to play a series of gigs, including a sold-out CD release and an opening set for the MC5.

He then went on to work on various projects with a particular focus on computers. He took an active interest in promoting Free and Open Source Software, working with digital video, digital photography and web design. It was at this time that he began working on independent photo and video projects and was credited as cameraman on the Colin Brunton/Kire Papputs film project The Last Pogo Jumps Again; in which he also appeared as an interview subject.

In 2013, and looking for a new challenge, Blair began painting.