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Billy MacKenzie
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schottischer Sänger
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1957-03-27
- Active to
- 1997-01-22
Discography
- Ice Cream Factory1982
- Colours Will Come1992
- Outernational1992
- Beyond The Sun1997
- Memory Palace1999
- Wild Is The Wind EP2001
- Eurocentric2001
- Auchtermatic2004
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10,659
- Total plays
- 139,060
Tags
William MacArthur "Billy" Mackenzie (born Dundee, Scotland: 27 March 1957 – 22 January 1997) was a Scottish singer, with a distinctive falsetto voice, powerful voice, vast range and near-operatic style, best known as a member of The Associates. He formed the Ascorbic Ones with Alan Rankine in 1976 & they changed name to The Associates in 1979. Rankine left in 1982 leaving MacKenzie to continue recording using The Associates name until 1990, after which he released one album under his own name
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Mackenzie
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Dundee
- Place of death
- Scotland
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- Scots
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.billymackenzie.com
- Image
- Billy-Mackenzie-Dundee-Scotland-1985.jpg
- Voice type
- tenor
Show 6 more facts
- cause of death
- intoxication
- date of birth
- 1957-03-27
- date of death
- 1997-01-22
- manner of death
- Suicide
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
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Article · Deutsch
William MacArthur „Billy“ MacKenzie (in einigen Quellen auch Billy Mackenzie; * 27. März 1957 in Dundee, Schottland; † 22. Januar 1997 in Auchterhouse, Schottland) war ein schottischer Sänger mit einer auffällig hohen Tenorstimme. Bekannt wurde er als Mitglied der Band Associates und als Gastsänger für Yello, B.E.F. und andere Künstler. Am 22. Januar 1997 starb MacKenzie im Alter von 39 Jahren an einer Überdosis verschreibungspflichtiger Medikamente.
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