He starred in the Radio 4 show Rudy's Rare Records.
It was reported that the separation was amicable. We can do weird stuff too!” The audience is there for more inclusive music, says Henry, they are just waiting to be directed to the people they should be listening to. He wrote symphonies, sonatas, concertos, opera and string quartets. Henry was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1999 New Year Honours.
[10], Henry's first manager was Robert Luff, who signed him in 1975 and gave him the opportunity to perform from age 16 to 21 as a comedian as part of the Luff-produced touring stage version of The Black and White Minstrel Show,[11] which in retrospect has widely been seen as an embarrassment and one of the most racist shows in British history.
[29], In 2014, Henry appeared in and produced a play based on his radio show Rudy's Rare Records, which played at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre before moving on to a run in London. [58] Henry has also been listed in the Powerlist of the 100 most influential Black Britons, including ranking fourth in 2016.[59].
[55] [60] Henry was awarded the BAFTA Television: Special Award in 2016. Sir Lenny Henry CBE Henry in The … His formative years were spent in working men's clubs, where he impersonated mainly white characters such as the Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em character Frank Spencer (whom he impersonated on New Faces). He was the voice of the British speaking clock for two weeks in March 2003 in aid of Comic Relief. [24] He would later say that neither move showed him at his best, and that he felt most comfortable with character comedy. He performed impressions such as Tina Turner, Prince, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Run DMC, among others. Henry played Samson Fearon, a character based on Henry's own father Winston. The film has a strong following, but contractual problems[22] have prevented it from being distributed on video or DVD. A fellow pupil set his hair on fire at school because he was black.”, Then there’s the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. He did the voice of Dark Nebula in Kirby: Squeak Squad. | Also in 1991, he starred in the Christmas comedy Bernard and the Genie alongside Alan Cumming and Rowan Atkinson. "[39] Michael Billington in The Guardian noted "Henry's voice may not always measure up to the rhetorical music of the verse, but there is a simple dignity to his performance that touches one". / ... [45] Henry later released "hard-hitting animated blues video" directed by Iranian filmmaker, Sam Chegini titled The Cops Don't Know which was premiered by Classic Rock magazine on 20 April 2016.[46]. Luther – Idris Elba stars as DCI John Luther, a brilliant but troubled detective who specializes in murder. In October 2009, Henry reprised his role of Deakus to feature in comedy shorts about story writing alongside Nina Wadia, Tara Palmer Tomkinson and Stephen K. Amos. [4], Lenworth George Henry was born at Burton Road Hospital[5] in Dudley, on 29 August 1958, to Winston Jervis Henry (1910–1978) and Winifred Louise Henry (1922–1998), who emigrated to Britain from Jamaica before he was born. Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph said "This is one of the most astonishing debuts in Shakespeare I have ever seen. "[38], Henry received widespread critical acclaim in the role. [23], Henry tried his hand at soul singing, appearing, for example, as a backing singer on Kate Bush's album The Red Shoes (1993)[citation needed] and, backed by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, at Amnesty International's Big 3-0 fund raising concert. Henry is a lifelong supporter of West Bromwich Albion Football Club. [19][20] The Lenny Henry Show ran periodically for a further 19 years in various incarnations. [7], Henry attended St John's Primary School and later The Blue Coat School in Dudley before completing his schooling at W.R. Tuson College in Preston, Lancashire. He worked with a group of musicians including Jakko Jakszyk, lead singer of King Crimson, to produce the album New Millennium Blues. “There are seriously talented composers and musicians,” he says, “that history has forgotten.”. Sir Lenworth George Henry CBE, known as Lenny Henry, is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer and television presenter, known for co-founding the charity Comic Relief, and appearing in TV programmes including children's entertainment show Tiswas, sitcom Chef! Unforgotten is a British crime drama television series, which initially aired on ITV on 8 October 2015.
“It’s been heart-wrenching,” he says. [37] Before the production opened the director Barrie Rutter said of the decision to cast him: "knives might be out at me or at Lenny. He wants to know more about those black classical talents who have been left out in the cold. At a BBC Radio 3 conference on diversity in 2016, Eleanor Alberga, a Jamaican-born composer who has written for the Royal Philharmonic among other world-class orchestras, said the classical music world “is not very inclusive”. In the UK, he used his character of Theophilus P. Wildebeeste to advertise Alpen muesli, and promoted the non-alcoholic lager, Kaliber. Lenny Henry says that because he’s black everyone assumes he’s a funk and soul music fan. Of the 13 new pieces the BBC commissioned for the 2019 Proms season, one piece was by a black female composer – Errollyn Wallen – and one by a black male composer, Daniel Kidane. The sketch was made for the BBC Red Nose Day fundraising programme of 2007. [16] She encouraged him to move over to the fledgling alternative comedy scene, where he established a career as a stand-up comedy performer and character comedian. About Nick Drake, about King Crimson?
[6] When he was 10 years old, he learned that his biological father was Albert Augustus "Bertie" Green (1927–2004), another Jamaican immigrant and a family friend with whom Henry's mother had a brief relationship when she first arrived in England. Paul Taylor in The Independent wrote that "Henry beautifully conveys the tragicomic plight of an innocent abroad. [28], Henry was criticised for his opening sketch for the 2011 Comic Relief, during which he spoofed the film The King's Speech and grew impatient with Colin Firth's portrayal of King George VI as he stammered over his speech. / ... They married in 1984 in Covent Garden, London. “I’ve made a documentary, I haven’t marched on Whitehall.
[36] In February 2009, he appeared in the title role in the Northern Broadsides production of Othello at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. “How many books are written about prog rock? He appeared alongside performers such as Bill Bailey, Jasper Carrott, Bonnie Tyler, Bobby Davro and the Lord of the Dance troupe. In 1980, Henry performed in Summer Season in Blackpool with Cannon and Ball. Henry returned to the BBC to do Lenny Henry in Pieces, a character-based comedy sketch show which was followed by The Lenny Henry Show, in which he combined stand-up, character sketches and song parodies.
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