Michael Hill
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sir Richard Michael Hill, Sir Michael Hill, Richard Michael Hill
New Zealand businessman (1938–2025)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 39
Top works
- Widening Access to Higher Education in Divided Communities
- History Matters
- Death, Disease and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art
- Sporty Sam and Lazy Lenny
- Ted Hill Family History
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Raised in the South Bronx, New York, Michael's early exposure to music included Harry Belafonte, Jackie Wilson, Johnny Ace, Elvis Presley and many other 78's and later 45's from his father Rufus' record collection. His mother Eunice and grandmother Lucia both sang and played the piano at home as well, and Michael briefly took piano lessons at age seven and sang in school glee clubs and the church choir as he grew up. Hearing Jimi Hendrix changed his life, inspiring his love of the electric guita
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Family name
- Hill
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Whangārei
- Place of death
- Sydney
- Occupation
- art collector
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Michael Hill (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1938-12-23
- Commons category
- Michael Hill (entrepreneur)
- date of death
- 2025-07-29
- name in native language
- Michael Hill
- honorific prefix
- Sir
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