Kim Brown (musician)
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Kim Brown was a British
-born Finland
-based musician, best-known for his band, The Renegades, which reached their greatest success during the 1960s.
, England
, but lived much of his life in Finland, where he made a career in rock music. In later years, he played with such musicians as Hasse Walli
and Markus Raivio. The Renegades recorded four albums in Finland. The tribute album, Moments with Kim Brown (2005), was made after Brown lost his voice
in a cancer operation.
Brown wrote many of the #1 songs for The Renegades, played guitar and was the lead vocalist of the band.
From 1975 on though, he temporarily moved to Italy where he created a 1950's-styled classic rock'n'roll combo called Kim & The Cadillacs, featuring German guitarist Trutz Viking Groth and ex Renegade Mick Webley, which rode the late seventies 1950's craze heralded by shows such as Happy Days and the movie Grease. Kim & The Cadillacs had regular chart success in Italy between 1976 and 1982, and were regulars on all kinds of national television shows in Italy, including Discoring and Festival di Sanremo, only to become quickly forgotten when new musical tendencies advanced in the early 1980s.
Kim Brown then returned to Finland, only returning occasionally to Italy appearing in oldies shows or dance hall gigs in resort towns,.
Kim Brown died of esophageal cancer
in Helsinki, Finland, aged 66, on 11 October 2011.
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
-born Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
-based musician, best-known for his band, The Renegades, which reached their greatest success during the 1960s.
Life and career
Brown was born in BirminghamBirmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, but lived much of his life in Finland, where he made a career in rock music. In later years, he played with such musicians as Hasse Walli
Hasse Walli
Hannes Mikael Waldemar "Hasse" Walli was born on 10 February 1948 in Helsinki. His father Aarno Walli was a musician and bandleader, his mother Anne-Marie Strandberg a singer. Hasse Walli was about ten years old when he started playing drums. He drummed in various bands in early 1960s such as The...
and Markus Raivio. The Renegades recorded four albums in Finland. The tribute album, Moments with Kim Brown (2005), was made after Brown lost his voice
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz. The human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary...
in a cancer operation.
Brown wrote many of the #1 songs for The Renegades, played guitar and was the lead vocalist of the band.
From 1975 on though, he temporarily moved to Italy where he created a 1950's-styled classic rock'n'roll combo called Kim & The Cadillacs, featuring German guitarist Trutz Viking Groth and ex Renegade Mick Webley, which rode the late seventies 1950's craze heralded by shows such as Happy Days and the movie Grease. Kim & The Cadillacs had regular chart success in Italy between 1976 and 1982, and were regulars on all kinds of national television shows in Italy, including Discoring and Festival di Sanremo, only to become quickly forgotten when new musical tendencies advanced in the early 1980s.
Kim Brown then returned to Finland, only returning occasionally to Italy appearing in oldies shows or dance hall gigs in resort towns,.
Kim Brown died of esophageal cancer
Esophageal cancer
Esophageal cancer is malignancy of the esophagus. There are various subtypes, primarily squamous cell cancer and adenocarcinoma . Squamous cell cancer arises from the cells that line the upper part of the esophagus...
in Helsinki, Finland, aged 66, on 11 October 2011.
The Renegades
The albums recorded in Finland.- The Renegades - 1965, Scandia 601
- The Renegades - 1965, Scandia 602
- The Cadillac - 1965, Hansa 73 368
- Take a Heart - 1965, Hansa 73 956