Barry Hay
Barry Andrew Hay (born August 16, 1948 in Faizabad , India ) is the singer and front man of the Dutch rock band Golden Earring .
biography
Hay was born in India and moved to the Netherlands at the age of eight . He lived in Amsterdam and later in The Hague . In the summer of 1967 he joined the rock band Golden Earring and replaced Frans Krassenburg. Hay created some of the Golden Earring record covers. Hay has also released two solo albums, Only Parrots Frogs and Angels (1972) and Victory of Bad Taste (1987), both with little success. In 1994 he sang and played the flute in the Ayreon song Sail Away Avalon, the single from the debut album The Final Experiment .
In 2001, Hay left The Hague and moved back to Amsterdam. He was the voice actor of rock Zilla in the Dutch version of Gene Simmons ' cartoon series My Dad the Rock Star .
Barry Hay married Sandra Bastian on February 22, 1992. The couple have two daughters, born in 1990 and 1999. Hay now lives on Curaçao , where he puts on a radio show.
In 2016 he released an album of his project Barry Hay's Flying V Formation .
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| SURNAME | Hay, Barry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hay, Barry Andrew (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch rock singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Faizabad , India |