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Emile Ford
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Saint Lucian musician and singer (1937-2016)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1937
- Active to
- 2016
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,430
- Total plays
- 20,715
Tags
oldies
Michael Emile Telford Miller (16 October 1937 – 11 April 2016), known professionally as Emile Ford, was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia. He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates, who had a number one hit in late 1959 with "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?". He was also a pioneering sound engineer. Emile Ford was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West Indies. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Castries
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- rock and roll
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Pye Records
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- date of birth
- 1937-10-16
- date of death
- 2016-04-11
- birth name
- Emile Sweetman
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- Commons category
- Emile Ford
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