British musician Black died

On January 26, in Ireland, at the age of 53, the British singer, guitarist and composer Colin Vercom, known under the stage pseudonym Black, the author and performer of the hit “Wonderful Life” died.

According to BBC , the last two weeks the musician was in a hospital in the city of Korka, where he was taken with severe injuries received in a car accident.

Colin Werkom was born in 1962 in Liverpool, began a musical career in punk rock, in 1981 he released the first single as the leader of his own Black group, in which his school friends played with him.

The song “Wonderful Life” brought world fame to Vernom. For the first time, she went out in the form of a single in 1986 and took 72nd place in the British chart, and in 1987 she was re-released on another label and entered the top 10 charts of Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, France, Austria, the Netherlands and Italy.

Vonderful Life Caves were performed by musicians from different countries, including Tina Casins, Lara Fabian, Ace of Base , Dzuckero and Hulio Iglesias.

The next two Black, Comedy (1988) and Black (1991) (1991) releases, and about two million copies of these albums were sold throughout the world.

In 1993, Colin Vernom founded his own label and released an album on it, in the late 1990s he recorded several records under his real name, but they could not repeat the success of Wonderful Life . In 2005, the musician returned to the Black pseudonym and released the album “Between Two Churches” , in one of the songs of which was ridiculed by the popularity of his main hit.