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Infobox musical artist| name = Nick Kamen| image = Each time you break my heart.jpg| caption = Nick Kamen on the cover of his 1986 debut single "Each Time You Break My Heart"| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Ivor Neville Kamen| birth_date = Birth date and age|1962|4|15|df=yes| birth_place = Harlow , Essex , England | instrument =| genre = Pop music|Pop | occupation = Singer, songwriter, model| years_active = 1986-1992| label =| associated_acts = Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna | website = Nick Kamen (born Ivor Neville Kamen , 15 April 1962, Harlow , Essex , England cite web |url= http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1775123/ |title=Nick Kamen |author= |date= |work= IMDb |publisher= |accessdate=2009-10-05 |language=) is an English people|English male model (person)|model , songwriter and musician , and brother of session musician|session guitarist Chester Kamen and artist Barry Kamen.
Career
Nick attended St Marks RC Comprehensive School in Harlow along with his brother Chester. Kamen was first brought to the publics attention in 1984 when Ray Petri featured him on the front cover of The Face (magazine)|The Face .cite journal|year=2008|month=January|title=Ray Petri - Urban Guerrilla|author=Ognyan Yordanov|journal= http://www.woundmagazine.com/ Wound Magazine|volume=1|issue=2|pages=116117|location=London|issn=1755-800X The cover showed him wearing a ski-hat, orange roll-neck sweater and Ray-Ban Aviator|aviator sunglasses .
He is most remembered, in the United Kingdom|UK , for his 1985 beefcake performance in Levi Strauss|Levi's "Launderette" television commercial ,cite web|url= http://www.headington.org.uk/adverts/clothes_shoes.htm|title=Clothes & Shoes|work=UK television adverts 19551985|year=2005|author=Stephanie Jenkins and Joan Williams|accessdate=2008-01-26 where he strips down in order to stone-wash his blue jeans in a 1950s style public laundromat while he waits clad only in his boxer shorts , which was one of a series of Bartle Bogle Hegarty advertisements that dramatically increased the popularity of Levi 501 s. It was selected for, and came fourth in, The 100 Greatest TV Ads in 2000.cite web| url = http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=VytTLdFCatA| title = 100 Greatest TV Ads (Pt 16)| accessdate = 2012-03-30| work = www.youtube.com
His first single was the 1986 UK number five hit record|hit " Each Time You Break My Heart " from his eponymous dιbut album.cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London| page= 296 | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 Songwriter|Written and record producer|produced by Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna and Stephen Bray , it also cracked both the United States|U.S. dance record chart|chart ( remix by Shep Pettibone ) and the Top 50 in Canada . Madonna also sang the backing vocalist|backing vocals . Her original demo remains one of many List of unreleased Madonna songs|unreleased Madonna songs . Kamen also had a #16 follow-up in the UK with the second single, Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever , although his later singles were less-commercially successful in the UK but more so in the rest of Europe, particularly Italy, France, Germany and Spain.
Kamen's second album Us (1988) was produced by Patrick Leonard . Madonna again made an appearance as a backing vocalist on the song "Tell Me", this time without contributing to the songwriting or production. In 1989 Kamen performed the song "Turn It Up" on the soundtrack to Walt Disney 's film , Honey, I Shrunk the Kids . 1990 saw the release of one of his biggest hits. The single " I Promised Myself ", from the album Move Until We Fly , reached Number 1 in eight European countries and was the fourth most played record in Europe in 1990. The song was later covered by Dead or Alive (band)|Dead or Alive (1999), A-Teens (2004) and Basshunter (2009).
Nick Kamen appeared on UK television, singing, on Top of the Pops (12 March 1987 and 18 October 1990), This Morning (TV series)|This Morning (9 April 1990), Night Network (15 April 1987, 19 August 1987 and 1988) and The Tube (31 October 1986 and 21 November 1986). In 1992 Kamen released what would be his last album to date, Whatever, Whenever .
Discography
Albums
Year
Title
Chart positions
Certifications
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1987
Nick Kamen
34
59
5
38
50
12
1988
Us
2
Loving You
7
1990
Move Until We Fly
4
44
9
15
12
AUT: Goldcite web| url = http://www.ifpi.at/? section=goldplatin| title = Gold & Platin| accessdate = 2011-02-09| work = www.ifpi.at| language = German
1991
Each Time You Break My Heart
1992
Whatever, Whenever
Singles
Year
Title
Chart positions
Album
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1986
" Each Time You Break My Heart "
5
25
64
8
8
3
2
5
41
6
2
Nick Kamen
1987
" Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever "
16
51
18
1
13
15
"Nobody Else"
47
19
97
"Come Softly to Me"
19
"Win Your Love"
13
1988
"Tell Me"
40
1
74
Us
"Bring Me Your Love"
20
16
"Oh What a Night"
Loving You
1989
"Don't Hold Out"
32
1990
" I Promised Myself "
50
1
11
5
8
4
1
3
Move Until We Fly
"Oh How Happy"
37
" Looking Good Diving "
"Agony and Ecstacy"
1992
"You're Not the Only One"
Whatever, Whenever
"We'll Never Lose What We Have Found"
2004
"I Promised Myself 2004"
42
References
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External links
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Nick+Kamen Nick Kamen on Discogs
http://www.nickkamen.com/ Unofficial fan website
http://www.nickkamen.it/ Unofficial Italian fanpage
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