1. Colin James Hay was born on 29 June 1953 and is a Scottish-Australian musician.
30 Facts About Colin Hay
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Colin Hay came to prominence as the lead vocalist and the sole continuous member of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist.
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Colin Hay has made appearances in movies such as Cosi and in television shows such as The Resident, The Larry Sanders Show, JAG, The Mick Molloy Show, A Million Little Things, and Scrubs.
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Colin Hay's music appeared in the television series What About Brian, The Black Donnellys, Cane, and the BBC medical drama Casualty.
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Colin James Hay was born on 29 June 1953 in Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, Scotland to James and Isabela Hay.
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Colin Hay's parents owned a small music shop; his father, a piano tuner, had been a stage singer and dancer in Glasgow.
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In 1978, Colin Hay met Ron Strykert and they formed an acoustic duo.
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Colin Hay settled in the Topanga region of the city and has resided in the United States since.
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In March 1990, Colin Hay released "Into My Life", the lead single from his second studio album, Wayfaring Sons, which was released in April 1990.
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994, Colin Hay was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as a member of Men at Work.
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In 1994, Colin Hay established his own recording label, Lazy Eye Records, and released his fourth studio album, Topanga.
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In 1996, Colin Hay reunited with Men at Work and toured South America, which led to the live Men at Work album, Brazil.
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In October 1998, Colin Hay released his fifth studio album, Transcendental Highway and in 1999 recorded and released the song "Misty Bay" with his girlfriend, Cecilia Noel.
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On 1 October 2000, Colin Hay performed with Men at Work at the 2000 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.
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In 2001, Colin Hay released his sixth studio album, Going Somewhere.
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In 2002, Colin Hay released his seventh studio album Company of Strangers and the video album Live at the Continental recorded in 2000.
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In July 2003, Colin Hay released his eighth studio album, Man @ Work, re-recording some Men at Work hits and his solo songs, including a reimagined version of "Down Under" recorded with Colin Hay's wife, Cecilia Noel, described as "more carnivale than outback".
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In 2004, Colin Hay launched his one-man show named Man at Work, a mixture of songs and stories.
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In 2006 Colin Hay provided his voice for one of the characters in the animated film The Wild.
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In 2008, Colin Hay plays the role of Nick at the horror movie The Uninvited.
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In May 2009, Colin Hay performed at the Artist for the Arts Foundation benefit at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, California.
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In 2010, Colin Hay released the live album, Live at the Corner, filmed in 2007 at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia.
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In May 2011, Colin Hay released his eleventh studio album Gathering Mercury.
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In December 2013, Colin Hay announced on his website that he was done touring "for the time being" and would spend 2014 writing and recording.
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In February 2015, Colin Hay released his twelfth studio album, Next Year People.
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On 4 August 2015, Colin Hay: Waiting for my Real Life, a documentary film about Hay, debuted at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
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Also in 2017, Hay released his first audiobook, Aesop's Fables with Colin Hay, published by Devault-Graves Digital Editions, for which he narrated 24 of Aesop's Fables written by author Tom Graves.
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In late 2021, Australian producer Christian "Luude" Benson remixed Men at Work's "Down Under" as a drum and bass track, with Colin Hay re-recording the vocal for the track's release on the Sweat It Out record label.
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Colin Hay is married to singer Cecilia Noel, who often provides backing vocals at his shows.
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Colin Hay was a really great sounding board for me.