Ian Gillan
Ian Gillan is an English singer and songwriter. He originally found commercial success as the lead singer and lyricist for Deep Purple.
Gillan was born onAugust 1945 at Chiswick Maternity Hospital. His father, Bill, was a storekeeper at a factory in London, who came from Govan, Glasgow and left school at 13, while his mother, Audrey, came from a family where she was the eldest of four children, who all enjoyed music and singing, and whose father had been an opera singer and amateur pianist. His sister, Pauline, was born in 1948. One of Gillans earliest musical memories was of his mother playing Blue Rondo a la Turk on the piano.
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