Roland Gift (born Roland Lee Gift, 28 May 1961, Birmingham, England) is a British singer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer of the rock band, Fine Young Cannibals.
Gift was born in Birmingham, but grew up in Hull, where his mother, Pauline, ran several second-hand clothes shops. He was educated at Kelvin Hall School on Bricknell Avenue in Hull but did not receive favourable yearly reports. He has two sisters, Helga and Ragna.
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Roland Gift (born Roland Lee Gift, 28 May 1961, Birmingham, England) is a British singer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer of the rock band, Fine Young Cannibals.
Gift was born in Birmingham, but grew up in Hull, where his mother, Pauline, ran several second-hand clothes shops. He was educated at Kelvin Hall School on Bricknell Avenue in Hull but did not receive favourable yearly reports. He has two sisters, Helga and Ragna.
His first recording was with a Hull ska band Akrylykz, the second release on nearby York's Red Rhino Records. Although this record was unsuccessful, it did bring him to the attention of Andy Cox and David Steele, who around 1985 asked him to be the lead singer of their new band Fine Young Cannibals after their old band, The Beat, had broken up.
In 1990, he was named by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" in the world.
In 2002, Gift released a self-titled solo album, featuring the single "It's Only Money". In 2007, Gift was in a...
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