Kelvyn Hallifax
Kelvyn Hallifax (born 22 June 1952 in Croydon, Surrey, England[1]) is a British composer, singer, musician and record producer.
In the 1970s and 1980s he was active as a singer and guitarist in several bands. In Dorking, Surrey Hallifax played in the band Joanne, later Wilder, as a guitarist and was their singer in the 1970s.[2] Then he was a member of the band Window in London.[1] In 1981 he sang on Electra Five's album Picture, on which he also played guitar.[3]
He started composing music for commercials in cooperation with his fellow componist Lothar Brandes, a member of the German band FEE, as part of the company Modern Toys Music in the 1980s which lasted nearly 10 years.[4]
His best-known song is White Boy in Europe from 1986, a single from his 1986 album Days of Europe. He appeared with the song White Boy in Europe in the German TV show WWF Club of Westdeutscher Rundfunk which was broadcast in the German first TV channel in 1986.[5] A music video was shot for the German TV show Musikladen Eurotops in 1986, too.[1][6]
He was also engaged as a background singer, for example in 1994 on the album Life in the Streets by Prince Ital Joe[7] and in 1996 on the album Fly by Sarah Brightman.[3]
He and the German singer Sandra Goltz were part of the Electropop duo "Mor La Peach" from 2008 to 2013.[8][9]
In 2009 he composed music for three Fiskars commmercials for German TV and the German documentary film Brezelkäfer Diaries.[10]
Hallifax later also worked as a music producer.[11][12] For the short film Go Bash! (2010) by Stefan Eckel and Stefan Prehn he contributed the music as a composer.[13][10]
Hallifax runs the company Babylon Music & Sound Design in Amsterdam.[14]
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
- Days Of Europa, Teldec (1986)
Singles[edit]
- True Love Adventures, B-Seite Interiors, Polydor (1983)
- White Boy in Europe, Teldec (1986)
External links[edit]
- CV in: Albert Heiser: Das Drehbuch zum Drehbuch: Storytelling, Konzeption und Produktion für Werbefilme, Trailer, Imagefilme und Viral-Videos, Springer-Verlag, 2020, p. 437
- Kelvyn Hallifax, Discogs
- Literature by and about Kelvyn Hallifax in the German National Library catalogue
- Kelvyn Hallifax on IMDb
- Kelvyn Hallifax on Vimeo
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kelvyn Hallifax, dedinidevil.de, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ Wilder (70's UK), facebook.com, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kelvyn Hallifax, Allmusic.com, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ "Seit fast zehn Jahren machen Sie zusammen Werbemusiken, "Modern Toys Music" heißt Ihre Company." (English: "You have been making commercial music together for almost ten years, your company is called "Modern Toys Music"."Kelvyn Hallifax, Lothar Brandes, Horizont, 24 July 1992, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ Kelvyn Hallifax, WWF Club, YouTube, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ Kelvyn Hallifax – White Boy in Europe , YouTube, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ Prince Ital Joe Feat. Marky Mark – Life In The Streets, Discogs
- ↑ Mor La Peach, mx3.ch, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ Mor La Peach, discogs.com, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Kelvyn Hallifax at Crew United
- ↑ Sound, radke-sieb.de, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ Cottbuser Musiker erobern US-Clubs im Sturm, Lausitzer Rundschau, 1. September 2011, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ Go Bash!, ag-kurzfilm.de, retrieved 18 December 2020
- ↑ Kelvyn Hallifax – Small Business Owner – Babylon Music & Sound, Xing.com, retrieved 18 December 2020
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