Ivor Neville "Nick" Kamen was a British singer, songwriter and model of mixed Burmese, Irish, Dutch and French descent.
13 Facts About Nick Kamen
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Nick Kamen was best known for the singles "Each Time You Break My Heart" from 1986 and "I Promised Myself" from 1990, as well as for appearing in a 1985 Levi's advert.
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Nick Kamen was the seventh of eight children, with four sisters and three brothers, Ronald Kamen, Chester Kamen and Barry Kamen.
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In 1982, Nick Kamen appeared in the video for The Damned Don't Cry by synthpop band Visage.
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Nick Kamen first came to the public's attention in 1984 when Ray Petri featured him on the front cover of The Face.
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Nick Kamen is widely known in the UK for his role in the 1985 Levi's "Launderette" commercial, where he stripped to his boxer shorts in a 1950s-style launderette while he waited for his blue jeans to wash, one of a series of Bartle Bogle Hegarty advertisements that increased sales of Levi 501s.
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Nick Kamen had a Number 16 follow-up in the UK with his second single, "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever", although his later singles were less commercially successful in the UK but more so in the rest of Europe, particularly Italy, France, Germany, and Spain.
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In 1989, Nick Kamen performed the song "Turn It Up" on the soundtrack to the Disney film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
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Nick Kamen appeared on UK television, singing on Top of the Pops, This Morning, Night Network and The Tube.
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On both occasions, his brother Chester Nick Kamen was on guitar.
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In 1992, Nick Kamen released his final album, titled Whatever, Whenever.
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Nick Kamen died at his London home on 4 May 2021, aged 59, following three years with bone marrow cancer.
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Nick Kamen had been receiving treatment at Hammersmith Hospital, West London.