Marc Almond (born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond on 9 July 1956 in Southport, Lancashire) is an English singer, songwriter and recording artist, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell. He has sold over 30 million records worldwide.
Marc Almond was born on 9 July 1956 in Southport on the Lancashire coast between Liverpool and the Ribble Estuary, the son of Sandra Mary Almond (formerly Dieson) and Peter John S...
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Marc Almond (born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond on 9 July 1956 in Southport, Lancashire) is an English singer, songwriter and recording artist, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell. He has sold over 30 million records worldwide.
Marc Almond was born on 9 July 1956 in Southport on the Lancashire coast between Liverpool and the Ribble Estuary, the son of Sandra Mary Almond (formerly Dieson) and Peter John Sinclair Almond, Second Lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment. He was brought up at his grandparents' house in Birkdale with his younger sister Julia, and as a child suffered from bronchitis and asthma. When he was 4, they left their grandparent's house and moved to Starbeck on the edge of Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Two years later they returned to Southport, and then moved to Horsforth (near Leeds). Due to a car crash at the age of 14, Almond is nearly completely deaf in his left ear.
He then attended King George V Grammar School in...
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