The English model and singer-songwriter died Nick Came, pupil of Madonna. Known for his hit Each time you break my heart of 1986, Kamen was 59 years old. The news was given from his friend Boy George with a message via Instagram. For the moment, the causes of his death, which took place last night, have not yet been clarified.
Nick Came, who was born in Essex under the name of Ivor Neville Kamen, achieved notoriety at the age of 23 before becoming a singer thanks to the worldwide advertising of Levi’s 501 jeans. occasion was given the nickname of Nick, go into a laundry in jeans and a white T-shirt and then take off your clothes remaining in boxers before putting them in the washing machine, on the notes of Heard it through the grapevine of Marvin gaye. It was precisely that spot, noticed by Madonna, to put Kamen in contact with the Material Girl who chose to entrust him with a song written with Stephen Bray, the hit. Each time you break my heart, in which Madonna appears for the choirs.
The hit, which reached the top of the English charts and also achieved great success in Germany, Spain, France and Italy, gave the title to the album of the same name that followed, the first of four discs that Nick Kamen released between 1987 and 1992. For his second album Us of 1988, Madonna assured him the collaboration of his producer Patrick Leonard, offered the choirs in Tell me but he no longer dealt with writing and supervising as he had done on the first album. The song Tell me he achieved extraordinary success especially in Italy, where during the summer months he remained in first position in the singles chart for nine weeks.
Farewell to singer Nick Kamen, idol of the 80s launched by the Levi’s jeans commercial
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The following year Kamen sang the song Turn it up for the soundtrack of the Disney movie titled Honey, I shrunk the boys. But it is in 1990 that the English artist places his greatest international success, I promised myself, which reached the top spot in eight European countries, the fourth most played single on radio and TV that year. His last album was in 1992 when Kamen released Whatever, whenever. Since then a substantial silence interrupted today by the news of his death.
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