Barry Hay

Barry Andrew Hay born in Faizabad Uttar Pradesh India 16 August 1948 is a Dutch rock singer best known for his 54 years as frontman of Golden Earring 19672021 the internationally most successful band to come out of The Netherlands Hay also released three albums under his own name Hay was born in India spent most of his life living in Amsterdam and The Hague but since 2008 resides on the island of Curaçao Netherlands Antilles He was recruited as the new singer of the Golden Earrings as Golden Earring was then named in 1967 after brief stints with The Hague beat groups Dont and The Haigs With Golden Earring Hay enjoyed international chart success with singles such as Radar Love 1973 Twilight Zone 1982 and When The Lady Smiles 1984 Hay cowrote much of Golden Earrings music with George Kooymans and wrote many of the bands lyrics In their home country Golden Earring had over 40 hits and made over 30 gold and platinum albums They sold millions of albums worldwide Barry Hay released three solo albums under his own name The first two Only Parrots Frogs Angels 1972 and Victory Of Bad Taste 1987 mostly consist of original material whereas The Big Band Theory 2008 is a covers album recorded big band style with Amsterdams Metropole Big Band In 2012 he launched a new project Barry Hays Flying V Formation a band in which Hay is backed by four younger musicians The groups sole studio album came out in May 2016 From 2019 onwards Hay also recorded and released two albums with JB Meijers