Kelvyn Hallifax (born 22 June 1952 in Croydon, Surrey, England) is a British composer, singer, musician and record producer. In the 1970s and 1980s he was active as a singer and guitarist in several bands. In Dorking, Surrey Hallifax played in the band Joanne, later Wilder, as a guitarist and was their singer in the 1970s. Then he was a member of the band Window in London. His best-known song is White Boy in Europe from 1986, a single from his 1986 album Days of Europe. He appeared with the song White Boy in Europe in the German TV show WWF Club of Westdeutscher Rundfunk which was broadcast in the German first TV channel in 1986. A music video was shot for the German TV show Musikladen Eurotops in 1986, too. He was also engaged as a background singer, for example in 1994 on the album Life in the Streets by Prince Ital Joe and in 1996 on the album Fly by Sarah Brightman. He and the German singer Sandra Goltz were part of the Electropop duo "Mor La Peach" from 2008 to 2013. In 2009 he composed music for three Fiskars commmercials for German TV and the German documentary film Brezelkäfer Diaries. Hallifax later also worked as a music producer. For the short film Go Bash! (2010) by Stefan Eckel and Stefan Prehn he contributed the music as a composer. Discography Albums * Days Of Europa, Teldec (1986) Singles *True Love Adventures, B-Seite Interiors, Polydor (1983) * White Boy in Europe, Teldec (1986)
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