Peter Blakeley
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Peter Blakeley is an Australian white soul/adult contemporary singer and songwriter.
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Birth name | Peter Blakeley |
Born | (1960-12-02) 2 December 1960 (age 63) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Genres | Soul |
Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, performer |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
Years active | 1978–present |
Labels | Truetone Capitol Giant |
Website | Official website |
Blakeley was a lead singer of the Rockmelons in the mid-1980s. He launched a solo career in 1987 and had a massive hit single in Australia in 1989 with "Crying in the Chapel", which was not a remake of the 1950s song "Crying in the Chapel". In 1990, he won an ARIA award for Single of the Year with "Crying in the Chapel", the first single taken from his album Harry's Café De Wheels. The song went platinum in 1990.[1]
Ian McFarlane, rock music journalist and author of Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (1999) wrote: "Peter Blakeley has been described by the founder of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun, as 'The finest White Soul singer I have ever heard.'"[2]