J. Vincent Edwards

Vincent's first brush with Fame came a one of the original cast members of the London production of "Hair"singing and recording the hit song "Aquarius", playing, naturally, the part of "Vince", which he performed almost 2.000 times at the Shaftesbury Theatre London.

As a songwriter and producer over half of his 200 compositions were covered by other artists, one in particular "Right Back Where We Started From", recorded by Maxine Nightingale, was an international  hit, reaching nuber one in the american singles charts. It was featured in Paul Newman´s movie "Slapshot", nominated for a Grammy award, and received a B.M.I. certificate, citing over two million plays on american radio. "Right Back" was recently rerecorded by the singer "Sinitta" and was again a worldwide Hit.

Other Movie credits are "Down and out in Bevery Hills", "The world is full of married men", "Whatever happend to Harald Smith?", and the Disney Movie "Cleopatra".

Vincent has a new CD on the market "Keep your dreams alive" and his own recording of "Souls". At the moment he is working on his musical Souls.com in New York with Tom O'Horgan. The original director of Hair. Souls.com played at the Lamama Theatre off Broadway in 2000 and could open worldwide in the coming year with 22 new songs written by Vincent. ->more information about souls.com (pdf)

He is in great demand for TV shows throughout Europe and also performed this September at the Café Royal in Picadilly - Lodon with his good friend and songwriter Jimmy Webb.
Vincent is also Host of the American TV show "Buskers" filmed in New York.
"Song for Africa" was his latest recording, which raised an enormous amount of money for the "Abdii Borii Project" in Ethiopia. In Chicago currently recording with the legendary Blusman Boogie Bob an Album of R+B - classics for future.

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