Brian Kay

Brian Kay

Brian Kay is an English radio presenter, conductor and singer. He is well known as the bass in the King's Singers during the group's formative years from 1968 until 1978, and as such is to be heard on many of their 1970s LP recordings. He was also the voice of Papageno in the film "Amadeus" and the lowest frog in the Paul McCartney song "We All Stand Together" (The Frog's Chorus).

He is noted as a choral conductor, being conductor of the Leith Hill Music Festival and former director of the Huddersfield Choral Society.

On radio, he has been a presenter of "Friday Night is Music Night" on BBC Radio 2 and until 2006 presented "3 for All" and "Brian Kay's Light Programme", a weekly programme about light music on BBC Radio 3. In 1996 he won the Sony Radio Award as Music Presenter of the Year.

References

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/brian_kay.shtml BBC Radio 3 biography]
* [http://www.rfsoc.org.uk/jim48.shtml Article about the cancellation of Brian Kay's Light Programme]


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