ルパート・ホルムズ (Rupert Holmes)

Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes (born February 24, 1947) is an American and British composer, songwriter and author of plays, novels and stories. He is best known for his number one pop hit "Escape" (subtitled "The Piña Colada Song") in 1979 and his Tony Award winning musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Holmes was born in Northwich, Cheshire, England but grew up in the northern New York City suburb of Nanuet, New York and attended nearby Nyack High School and the Manhattan School of Music (majoring in clarinet), and he has dual American and British citizenship. His father was a United States Army Warrant Officer and bandleader, and his mother was English, and both were musical. Holmes' brother, Richard, is an opera singer based in New York City and is the principal lyric baritone of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, sings roles with regional opera companies, such as Glimmerglass Opera, Lake George, and Virginia Opera, among others, and has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera. Holmes' daughter Wendy died suddenly in 1986, at the age of ten, of an undiagnosed brain tumor. He has two sons, Nick and Tim (who has autism)...
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