Alex Kapranos (Greek: Άλεξ Καπράνος, born Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, 20 March 1972 in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire) is an English musician who is the lead singer and the guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.
Alex Kapranos was born in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, England to an English mother and Greek father. He moved to the North East of England when he was three months old, spending his early childhood in Sunderland and South Shi...
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Alex Kapranos (Greek: Άλεξ Καπράνος, born Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, 20 March 1972 in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire) is an English musician who is the lead singer and the guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.
Alex Kapranos was born in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, England to an English mother and Greek father. He moved to the North East of England when he was three months old, spending his early childhood in Sunderland and South Shields, his mother's home town, and spent most summers in his father's native Greece. Huntley is the name his father adopted from his father's aunt. He gets his middle name from Paul McCartney on whom his mother had a crush.
In 1980, he moved with his family to Edinburgh then to Glasgow in 1984. At the age of seventeen, Kapranos attended the University of Aberdeen to study theology. After dropping out, he continued his studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow where he studied Catering and Hotel Management, eventually gaining a BA. He...
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