Martin Fry
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| Birth name | Martin David Fry |
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9 March 1958 Stretford, Lancashire, England |
| Origin | , England |
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| Years active | 1975–present |
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| Website | abcmartinfry |
Martin David Fry (born 9 March 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.
Fry's music career spans more than 30 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of the new wave band ABC, which released six singles that entered the Top 20 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, including "Tears Are Not Enough", "Poison Arrow", "The Look of Love", "All of My Heart", "That Was Then but This Is Now" and "When Smokey Sings". He is the only member who has been with ABC throughout its entire history and is currently its only official member.
Martin David Fry was born on 9 March 1958, in Stretford, Lancashire, and grew up in nearby Bramhall, , alongside his younger brother Jamie, whom later went on to join the indie rock band Earl Brutus. In 1978, Fry was editing a fanzine titled Modern Drugs, when he first met future ABC band members Mark White and Stephen Singleton while interviewing them for an article in the fanzine. White and Singleton, then fronting a rock band called Vice Versa, invited Fry to join their band to play the keyboards.
With Fry in place as lead singer and songwriter, Vice Versa changed its name to ABC and changed its sound to a synth-pop style that at that time led them to be categorised with bands like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and the Human League. Between 1982 and 1991, ABC recorded six studio albums (The Lexicon of Love, Beauty Stab, How to Be a ... Zillionaire!, Alphabet City, Up and Abracadabra) and released a greatest hits compilation album, Absolutely. During this time, the band went through numerous personnel changes, with Fry and Mark White being its only permanent members.
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