Name Nelson Keene | Role Singer | |
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Similar People Lance Fortune, Larry Parnes, Vince Eager, Tommy Bruce, Mark Wynter | ||
Ocean Of Love - Nelson Keene
Nelson Keene was the stage name of Malcolm Holland (born 1942). He was a British pop singer at the start of the 1960s.
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He was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, one of ten children. As a singer, he was managed by Larry Parnes, who chose his stage name - along with those of many other pop singers of the period including Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, Vince Eager and Georgie Fame - and was signed to HMV Records. His first single, "Image of a Girl", a cover version of a US top ten hit by The Safaris, reached # 37 on the British singles chart in 1960, but was outsold by Mark Wynter's rival version of the same song. Two follow-ups, "Keep Loving Me" (1960) and "Miracles Are Happening To Me" (1961) failed to reach the chart, and Keene's recording career appears to have ended at that point.
He was reported as living in Australia in 2010.