Vince Hill
Vince Hill (born April 16, 1937 in Holbrooks , Coventry ) is a British singer.
biography
At the age of 15 he was singing in a pub in Margate . But he only decided on music after having worked for a while as a baker, truck driver and in a coal mine.
The decisive boost for his singing career came when he was drafted into the military. He became a singer in the Royal Signals Band, a band of the British Royal News Service. After his discharge from military service, he went on tour with a musical called Floradora and was a singer with Teddy Foster's Band, a big band from London .
In the early 1960s he became a member of a band called "Jackie and the Raindrops" and had his first appearances on the BBC radio show "Parade of the Pops". In 1961 he left the group for a solo career.
His first single to hit the UK charts was Rivers run dry (# 41) in 1963. His first Top20 hit Take Me to Your Heart Again (English version of La vie en rose ) reached # 13 in 1966 the hit parade. Further noteworthy chart listings were Heartaches (# 28, 1966), the Udo-Jürgens composition Merci, Chérie (# 36, 1966), Roses of Picardy (# 13, 1967), Love Letters in the Sand (# 23, 1967) and Look Around (# 12, 1971).
Vince Hill had his greatest success with his version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein title Edelweiss . As part of the successful musical My Songs - My Dreams ( The Sound of Music ), the song rose to # 2 on the British charts in February 1967.
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| SURNAME | Hill, Vince |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pop singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holbrooks , Coventry , UK |