Born in Jamaica Peter Straker has been hailed as one of the great voices of the British<br />stage who first shot to fame in 1968 when he starred as Hud in the original London<br />production of ‘Hair.’ Following on to star in countless West End Theatre productions,<br />including Pete Townshend’s ‘Tommy’ as the narrator, Ken Hill’s ‘The Original Phantom<br />of the Opera’, ‘Hot Stuff’, ‘Blues in the Night’, ‘The Rocky Horror Show’, ‘The Rat Pack’,<br />‘One Love’ and ‘Holding On’ with Ruby Turner. His classical roles include Cassius in<br />‘Julius Caesar’, at Bristol Old Vic, and Lucio in ‘Measure for Measure’ at the National<br />Theatre.<br />Multi-talented, he has extended from Shakespeare to pantomime, and appeared on<br />television and film in diverse roles such as the pioneering cult classic film ‘Girl / Boy’ in<br />1972 to ‘Doctor Who’, detective series, ‘80’s melodrama ‘Connie’ with Stephanie<br />Beacham and Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones comedy ‘Morons in Outer Space’<br />More recently he reprised his role in ‘The Wiz’ with Birmingham Rep, and starred in The<br />Hackney Empire’s ‘Cinderella’, The Landor Theatre’s ‘The Glorious One’s’. Lately<br />Straker has performed in The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in a concert performance<br />of ‘Piaf’ with The Matthew Jones Orchestra, and his critically acclaimed one man show<br />‘Peter Straker’s Brel‘ returned to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013 after sold out<br />performances earlier that year at the St. James Theatre in London.<br />Latterly in a new production of ‘Tommy’ he was asked to play the role of the Acid Queen.<br />Prior to covid 19 lockdown he was appearing in the first English language production of<br />‘La Cage Aux Folles’ at the Park Theatre, London, directed by Jez Bond from a new<br />translation by acclaimed actor, writer and director, Simon Callow.<br />In addition, outside of acting and performing Peter Straker has enjoyed a notable<br />recording career with projects for many major record labels including The Alan Parsons<br />Project ‘I Robot’, Freddie Mercury’s memorable ‘Barcelona’ with Montserrat Caballé as<br />well as backing vocals on The Great Pretender.<br />Throughout his career Straker has an extensive back catalogue of recordings and solo<br />albums, including his highly acclaimed album from the Jacques Brel songbook “Brel”.<br />Furthermore, earlier this year a special deluxe x 3 CD Box Set tilted ‘This One's On Me’<br />was released containing Straker’s best known albums, one of which was co - produced<br />by Freddie Mercury with Straker’s career defining ‘This One’s On Me’ album alongside<br />Roy Thomas Baker - who was the celebrated producer behind Queen’s classic albums,<br />‘Queen’, ‘Queen II’ ‘Sheer Heart Attack’, ‘Jazz’ and ‘A Night At The Opera’ and<br />‘Changeling’ which was Tim Friese-Greene’s first full album production role before his<br />acclaimed association with Thomas Dolby and his becoming the de facto 4th member of<br />Talk Talk on their critically acclaimed later albums. Last but not least Real Natural Man’.<br />Following this, we see the release in February of the single ‘Heart Be Still 2020’,<br />
