Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

Engelbert Humperdinck is an English pop singer. He is best known for his songs Release Me and The Last Waltz, both singles topping the UK music charts in 1967 and selling in large enough numbers to help the singer achieve the rare feat of scoring two million sellers in one year. In North America, he is also known for his 1976 hit single After the Lovin. Humperdinck is regarded by music critics to be one of the finest middleoftheroad balladeers around. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide.

Arnold George Dorsey was born in Madras, British India in 1936, one of ten children to British Army NCO Mervyn Dorsey who was of Welsh descent, and his wife Olive who was of German descent. His family moved to Leicester, England when he was ten. He soon showed an interest in music and began learning the saxophone. By the early 1950s, he was playing saxophone in nightclubs, but he is believed not to have tried singing until he was seventeen, when friends coaxed him into entering a pub contest. His impression of Jerry Lewis prompted friends to begin calling him Gerry Dorsey, a name that he worked under for almost a decade.

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