Nicholas David Kershaw was born on 1 March 1958 in Bristol, England, and grew up in Ipswich, Suffolk and is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.
He was educated at Northgate Grammar School for Boys where he played the guitar – he was self-taught on this instrument.
He left school in the middle of his A-Levels and got a job at an unemployment benefit office.
He also sang in a number of underground Ipswich bands. However, when the last of these, Fusion, broke up in 1982, he embarked on a full-time solo career as a musician and songwriter.
Kershaw came to prominence in 1984 as a solo artist.
He released eight singles that entered the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart during the decade, including “Wouldn’t It Be Good”, “Dancing Girls”, “I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”, “Human Racing”, “The Riddle”, “Wide Boy”, “Don Quixote” and “When a Heart Beats”.
His 62 weeks on the UK Singles Chart through 1984 and 1985 beat all other solo artists.
Kershaw appeared at the dual-venue concert Live Aid in 1985 and has also penned a number of hits for other artists, including a UK No. 1 single in 1991 for Chesney Hawkes, “The One and Only”.
In 2019, Kershaw received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Suffolk for his services to the music industry.
When was Nik Kershaw born?
Nik Kershaw is age 65 years old he was born on 1 March 1958.
Who played bass for Nik Kershaw?
He started playing bass in a gospel church at the age of 18 and shortly after this he went on to study music in the US and is now an Honours Graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston USA, and B.I.T. Musicians Institute of Technology in Los Angeles, California.