There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) Bahamas is Canadian musician Afie Jurvanen (born April 28, 1981, in Toronto). 2) Bahamas was a French prog-rock band; 3) Bahamas was a Polish disco artist. 1) Bahamas is Canadian musician Afie Jurvanen (born April 28, 1981, in Toronto). Jurvanen isn’t from the Bahamas; he’s a Finnish-Canadian raised in Barrie (a working class town in rural Ontario). Jurvanen recorded his debut album — Pink Strat, in a cabin in rural Ontario in 2008.