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David Harrison Gilmour (November 5, 1931 – June 11, 2023) was a Canadian businessman and investor. He was the founder of Fiji Water. Gilmour founded Wakaya Perfection in 2011, a multi-level marketing nutrition company. Early life David Harrison Gilmour was born in Winnipeg on November 5, 1931, and grew up in Toronto. His father was Adam Gilmour, an investment banker, and his mother was Doris Godson Gilmour, an opera singer. At age 16, his father offered him the option between enough cash to start his own company, or a $10 stipend a day to go travelling in Europe on his own. He chose to go travelling, and believed he learned how to become an entrepreneur by observing other people on his travels. Career Gilmour created his first company, Dansk Design, an importer of Scandinavian furniture and giftware. He then founded TrizecHahn, a real estate firm. In 1958, he co-founded Clairtone, a stereo maker, with Peter Munk. They then bought property in Fiji and started the hotel chain called the Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation in 1969. Less than a decade later, they sold it for $128 million. They then bought a $40 million gold mine in Northern Ontario, and co-founded Barrick Gold. He also bought Zinio, now one of the world's largest electronic distributors of magazines, books, catalogs and apps. Gilmour later bought Wakaya Island in Fiji. It was sold to future (April 2019) convicted felon Clare Bronfman in 2016. In 1996, he co-founded Fiji Water with Peter Munk, after he found an aquifer in Yaqara Valley on Viti Levu. It became the No. 1 brand of imported water, even before Evian. In 2004, he sold it to Lynda Resnick for US$50 million. He also founded Wakaya Club & Spa, a luxury resort on Wakaya Island. Prince Felipe of Spain and his wife Letizia, Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, George Lucas, Michelle Pfeiffer, David E. Kelley, Robert Zemeckis, Paris Hilton, and Tom Cruise have all stayed in the resort. He has also built a village and a school for his Fiji workers.

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“Syd's story is a sad story romanticised by people who don't know anything about it. They've made it fashionable but it's just not that way.”
— As quoted in Musician (December 1982)
“Roger doesn't have the right at present to tell me what to do with my life, although he believes that he does. And he'll not ruin my career, although lately he's been trying to.”
— As quoted in Penthouse (September 1988)
“Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing ... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually — mostly — the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.”
— On guitar solos, in an interview in Time, quoted in Classic Albums: Pink Floyd – The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon (2003)
“The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.”
— Ruling out the possibility of a permanent reunion of Pink Floyd in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica (February 2006)
“Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.”
— About the band, in Dark Side of the Moon Sessions
“We want to spread this message of peace, and we want to raise the morale of the people who are defending their homeland there in Ukraine.”
— On his inspiration to collaborate with Andriy Khlyvnyuk after seeing his rendition of the 1914 Ukrainian patriotic march "Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow" by adding Pink Floyd musical adaptations to produce the composition "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" as a means of funding humanitarian relief in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. - Official lyrics video at YouTube: "Hey, Hey, Rise Up"

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Notable quotes

“Syd's story is a sad story romanticised by people who don't know anything about it. They've made it fashionable but it's just not that way.”
— As quoted in Musician (December 1982)
“Roger doesn't have the right at present to tell me what to do with my life, although he believes that he does. And he'll not ruin my career, although lately he's been trying to.”
— As quoted in Penthouse (September 1988)
“Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing ... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually — mostly — the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.”
— On guitar solos, in an interview in Time, quoted in Classic Albums: Pink Floyd – The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon (2003)
“The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.”
— Ruling out the possibility of a permanent reunion of Pink Floyd in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica (February 2006)
“Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.”
— About the band, in Dark Side of the Moon Sessions
“We want to spread this message of peace, and we want to raise the morale of the people who are defending their homeland there in Ukraine.”
— On his inspiration to collaborate with Andriy Khlyvnyuk after seeing his rendition of the 1914 Ukrainian patriotic march "Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow" by adding Pink Floyd musical adaptations to produce the composition "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" as a means of funding humanitarian relief in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. - Official lyrics video at YouTube: "Hey, Hey, Rise Up"

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David Gilmour across IJR