Nik Kershaw

Nik Kershaw is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He gained fame as a 1980s teen idol and holds the record for spending the most weeks on the UK Singles Chart during that time.

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March 1, 1958

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Nik Kershaw, an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, rose to fame in the 1980s with popular hits such as “Wouldn’t It Be Good” and “The Riddle”. He has had eight Top 40 singles in the UK, including “Dancing Girls”, “I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”, “Human Racing”, and “Don Quixote”. Besides his own music, Kershaw has written songs for other artists, like Chesney Hawkes’ “The One and Only”. Before achieving success in the music industry, he worked in various jobs, including laborer, cook, and store clerk. Notably, Kershaw was a teen idol in the 1980s, spending 62 weeks on the UK Singles Chart in 1984-5, outperforming all other solo artists during that period.