Martin Fry
Martin Fry is a British singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer associated with the new wave genre.
Born on 9 March 1958 in Stretford, he attended Bramhall High School, where his education preceded a career that would encompass performance, composition, and production within the English-language music world.
As a musician, Fry has worked across several creative capacities — singing, writing, composing, and producing — contributing to the new wave genre as both a performer and a craftsman behind the scenes. His work has been conducted in the English language throughout.
The Library of Congress catalogs him under the authorized label "Fry, Martin (Musician)," a designation that acknowledges the breadth of his roles across the craft. New wave has remained the consistent genre framework within which his work as a singer and songwriter is situated.
Quotes by Martin Fry
I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.
I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.