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Chris Norman
SINGER
1950 - Today
Chris Norman
Christopher Ward Norman (born 25 October 1950) is an English soft rock singer. Norman was the original lead singer of the English rock band Smokie (1964–1986), which found success in Europe in the 1970s. "Stumblin' In", a 1978 duet with Suzi Quatro, became a big hit in the United States and Europe. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Norman has received more than 1,903,046 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Chris Norman is the 145th most popular singer (up from 154th in 2019), the 624th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 689th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Singer.
Chris Norman is most famous for being a member of the rock band, Smokie.
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As already mentioned, Chris Norman was born on 25 October 1950 in Redcar/GB.
As his parents were professional artists they often had engagements all over England and the family had to move frequently, so Chris grew up in different cities and visited 8 schools. In St. Bede's Grammar School in Bradford he finally met his later band colleagues. The desire to become as successful as his great idols the Beatles grew, so that he, although he was a very good student, left school at the age of 16 and together with his friends Alan and Terry devoted to music. He tried several jobs to earn money e.g. in a glass factory, but music did not get out of his mind and so he began to travel through Britain with the band in the late '60s.
It was in 1968, while Chris and the band had played live in the small Scottish town of Elgin when he met his dream woman, and from this moment on, both are inseparable till the present day. Linda and Chris are happily married since 16th of March 1970 which certainly is very rare to find in showbusiness. The two have 5 children:
Brian, born 28th of July 1968
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Also in 1968 during one of those small tours, in the little town Elgin in Scotland, Chris met Linda, his later wife. The two belong together ever since. Finally on the 16th of March 1970 the wedding bells rang for the happy couple.
1970 the band signed their first record contract with RCA and under the new name "Kindness", their first single "lindy Lou"/"Light of love" was released, unfortunately with only moderate success.
1971 dave Eager became the new manager of "Kindness" and in february 1972, three more Kindness Singles "let the good time roll", "Oh yeah" and "make it better" were released under the Label "Decca". Unfortunately, this neither brought the success, which the 4 guys had hoped for so much.
Together with Peter Noon, the former singer of "Herman's hermits", Kindness were touring as backing group all around England. It was the time, when they met their later manager Bill Hurley, who made a new contract with them in 1973. The same year, Ron Kelly left the band and Pete Spencer, a school friend of Chris, Alan and Terry joined them.Bill Hurley organized a meeting w
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