Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey on 2nd May 1936) is an English singer, born in Madras, India and raised in Leicester, England.
Having released his debut single, ‘I’ll Never Fall in Love Again’, as long ago as 1958, there’s little question that Engelbert Humperdinck is one of Britain’s most enduring pop singers; in addition, he’s often been one of the most embattled, battling through early failures to eventually cement his place as one of England’s best-loved pop figures in the 1960s. It was during that time that he scored his biggest hits; ‘Release Me’ kept The Beatles at bay in March and April 1967 when it topped the charts ahead of ‘Penny Lane’, whilst sold over a million copies that same year, also reaching the summit of the singles rundown. It earned Humperdinck a reputation as a crooner, something he’s fiercely denied - “I can hit notes a bank couldn’t cash.”
He went on to enjoy success in the U.S., too, particularly in the seventies, and continues to record and perform today - his most recent significant public exposure in the UK, though, came when he represented the country at the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan in 2012; he suffered the ignominy of finishing twenty-fifth out of twenty-six contestants, with a new composition, ‘Love Will Set You Free’, failing to capture the imagination of the voters.
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