The musician and Hot Chocolate co-founder Errol Brown is dead. The singer of British funk band died on Wednesday at the age of 71 at his home in the Bahamas a liver cancer, said his manager Phil Dale with. Brown celebrated with Hot Chocolate in the disco era of the seventies his greatest successes -. With hits like “You Sexy Thing”
“Wherever he was, there was music,” Dale said. Brown has worked according to his manager until recently on new songs. It was the native Jamaican, who spent most of his life in Britain, never actually become a pop star. “I did not even musicians,” he told the British newspaper “Telegraph” in an interview before his farewell tour in 2009.
To the music Brown came quite by accident, after his friend Tony Wilson, songwriter and also a co-founder of Hot Chocolate, in the later sixties began, einzuspielen reggae versions of popular songs.
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Errol Brown with his wife Ginette 2003: Awarded the British Order of Merit MBE
With such a version of “Give Peace a Chance” they even managed to record company Apple Records of the Beatles – the new edition then because of copyright concerns but then refused. In another record company Hot Chocolate started by a little later still, and became one of the few bands with black members who had in Great Britain of the seventies commercial success.
From 1985, Brown also tried his hand as a solo artist, but was unable to match the popularity of Hot Chocolate. Because of his stage performances and his often cryptic lyrics was Brown as a sex symbol, but the dissolute lifestyle of a star he pursued allegedly never. He leaves after 35 years of marriage, his wife Ginette and two daughters together.
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