Nick Kamen
The British pop star, an idol of the 80s, had been battling cancer for a long time. Her advertising face was launched into the world of music thanks to an intuition of Madonna
(Photo: Dave Hogan / Hulton Archive / Getty Images) Nick Kamen, the British pop star from Essex, has us left at 59. To break the news is his friend Boy George on Instagram. A model debut blessed by the Levi's jeans commercial - in which he took off his pants and stayed in his boxers to read a magazine - which gave him worldwide popularity. And it intrigued Madonna who, in 1986, produced her first planetary hit Each Time You Break My Heart.Elvis Presley look, handsome and unpunished face, in 1987, thanks to the record that carried her name has become the idol of teenagers. A year
later Ms. Ciccone focused on him again with the second album Us and the singles Tell me and Bring me your love. Highly demanded by the media, his song Turn it up was featured in the soundtrack of the Disney blockbuster Darling, I Shrunk the Boys with Rick Moranis. For the cinema he has written songs for the films Shag, The Last Madness and Dick Tracy with Madonna and Warren Beatty. When a friend died of AIDS and his relationship with model Tatiana Patitz (who also appeared in the Tell me video) ended, Nick Kamen decided to devote himself to a period of solitude and reflection that will change him a lot.
The (professional) decline began in the 90s, just when his projects became more mature. His last work was the autobiographical Whatever, Whanever from 1992. Since then he has retired to private life dedicating himself to art and video production, although with the arrival of social networks many fans have dedicated pages to him. unofficial. Although his life was no longer in the spotlight, he made some fleeting appearances and again attracted the interest of the press for the love story with the English presenter Amanda De Cadenet. In 2019 he let his fans know, through his team, that after cancer and chemotherapy he was recovering.
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Nick Kamen, singer and iconic '80s Levi's commercial model, dies at 59: Reports
Model and singer Nick Kamen has died at the age of 59, according to multiple reports. There's no information as to the cause of death available at this time.
The Essex-born star rose to fame at age 18, after he appeared in a Levi's 501 commercial, filmed in a launderette in 1985, where he strips off down to his underwear to do laundry, while onlookers ogle. He soon became a sex symbol.
Kamen — whose real name was Ivor Neville Kamen — then caught the attention of queen of pop Madonna who had him record 'Each Time You Break My Heart,' a track she'd originally penned for her album True Blue, but hadn't ended up using. The song reached the top five on the U.K. charts. Madonna provided backing vocals on the track. Between 1987 and 1992, Kamen released four albums and enjoyed success with the song 'I Promised Myself' in 1989.
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Following the news of his death on Wednesday, his friend and fellow singer Boy George posted a tribute to Kamen on Instagram, writing, 'R.I.P. to the most beautiful and sweetest man.'
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