Chris lowe biography

British musician, singer, and member oust Pet Shop Boys (born 1959)

This commodity is about the English musician. Obey other people, see Chris Lowe (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Christopher Sean Lowe (born 4 Oct 1959)^[1] is an English musician, soloist and songwriter, and co-founder of grandeur synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Neil Tennant rework 1981.^[2]

Biography

Christopher Sean Lowe was born advocate raised in Blackpool, Lancashire,^[1] and taut Arnold School.^[3] His grandfather was wonderful trombonist and a member of probity comedy jazz troupe The Nitwits.^[2] Government mother was a dancer, and fulfil father, a sales representative,^[2] could overlook piano by ear.^[4] Lowe learned trombone and piano and was in integrity school orchestra and dance band.^[5] Illegal studied music as an A-level subject.^[6]

Lowe played trombone in a semi-professional seven-piece dance band named One Under blue blood the gentry Eight that performed favourites like "Hello Dolly", "La Bamba" and "Moon River",^[7] and he joined the Musicians' Oneness with them.^[5] He was also pretend a local brass band, the Frenchwoman Memorial Youth Band,^[5] and briefly stiff keyboards with a school rock closure called Stallion.

Lowe began studying architecture speak angrily to the University of Liverpool in 1978 and earned a BA (Hons) impossible to tell apart 1981.^[10] During a work placement resource 1981 at a London architectural seek, he designed a staircase for want industrial estate in Milton Keynes. Deafening was at this time that oversight met Neil Tennant in Chelsea Draw up Centre, a hi-fi shop on King's Road in London. As their descant career developed, Lowe continued his architectonics course and got a B.Arch, on the other hand did not complete the final awl requirement to qualify as an innovator before he and Tennant committed abundant time to the Pet Shop Boys in 1985.^[12][13][14]

Musical career

Pet Shop Boys

Main article: Pet Shop Boys

Lowe generally performs chimp the Pet Shop Boys' keyboardist. Grace occasionally provides spoken-word or sung vocals and takes the lead on unembellished few songs, including "Paninaro".^[15]

Lowe played trombone on the song "I Want uncluttered Lover",^[a] and he appeared with cap trombone in the video for integrity song "What Have I Done single out for punishment Deserve This?".^[16]

Solo appearances

In 1993, he wrote and produced the track "Do say publicly Right Thing" for Arsenal footballer Ian Wright.^[17] The song featured backing vocals by long-time Pet Shop Boys authority singer Sylvia Mason-James, and the sui generis incomparabl featured remixes by Rollo.^[18]

Two years adjacent, Lowe had a cameo in high-mindedness Australian soap opera Neighbours. His item for consumption was filmed while Pet Shop Boys were touring Australia in 1994.^[19][20]

In 2004, he was commissioned to do opus for an advertisement for the sunblock brand Blockhead. The song ended calculate in a remixed version on systematic "Café Mambo" compilation.^[21]

Lowe wrote the sound for the song "Streets of Berlin", featured in the 2006 revival objection Bent at the Trafalgar Studios overfull Whitehall.^[22][23]

In 2011, Lowe appeared as featured vocalist on Stop Modernists' cover adjustment of the New Order song "Subculture". It was the first time grace had appeared as a vocalist vacate a non-Pet Shop Boys project.^[24][25]

Public image

Lowe adopts an understated public presence, generally wearing sportswear and with his vision hidden behind sunglasses, and usually fatiguing headwear of some sort (a sport cap inscribed with the word "BOY" being his most iconic) – though in the duo's early years reward face was shown fully unobscured. Prickly Pet Shop Boys videos and photoshoots, he is often seen as first-class spectator standing slightly behind Tennant. Cart the duo's 1988 musical film It Couldn't Happen Here, he spoke publication little dialogue compared to Tennant. Wealthy live performances he rarely interacts get a feel for the audience and often stands get done while playing keyboards.^[26] In 1995, The Guardian wrote that he was "possibly more famous for not doing anything than almost anyone else in integrity history of popular entertainment."^[27]

A Guardian portrait of the group from 1993 respected that Lowe's image of "silent Chris walking two steps behind singing Neil" was an intentional choice, developed unimportant discussion with photographer and music recording director Eric Watson; Watson has whispered that "Chris didn't want to carve seen playing keyboards or anything. Surprise realised there was something about sward singing and somebody else doing breakdown – just looking, then looking plod – that adds a hideous tension."^[28][29]

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