1. Peter Kingsbery was born on December 2,1952 and is an American singer-songwriter who co-founded the band Cock Robin in the 1980s.
12 Facts About Peter Kingsbery
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Peter Kingsbery grew up in Austin where he studied classical music.
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Peter Kingsbery moved to Nashville where he began his career as a musician and then to Los Angeles at the end of the '70s where he began a career as a singer-songwriter.
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Peter Kingsbery composed a few songs for Smokey Robinson, and one of his compositions, Pilot Error, sung by Stephanie Mills, had some success in the dance charts in 1983.
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Peter Kingsbery speaks fluent French and is much more famous in France than he is in his native US.
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Peter Kingsbery broadened his skills by not only playing the piano or organ but the accordion.
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Contrary to what he used to do in the Cock Robin albums, Peter Kingsbery recorded a cover version of How Can I Be Sure, a hit by the band The Rascals dating from 1968.
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Peter Kingsbery sang Only The Very Best, which became a major hit in France in 1992, and the song Ego Trip on the album.
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The recording pace slows down in the years that followed, Peter Kingsbery continuing to perform in small venues.
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None of the four albums by Peter Kingsbery have achieved the success of the Cock Robin ones and Kingsbery never returned to his previous level of popularity, not even in France.
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In 2006, Peter Kingsbery found himself again at the front of the stage with the return of Cock Robin.
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In June 2012, Peter Kingsbery was the featured vocalist on Danish duo Terminal Argh's debut-single "Middle of a Western", digitally released by Mabel The Label.