Lovelace Watkins

[Anthony]

Lovelace Watkins won Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. Can anyone remember which song he sang, and anyone know what became of him ?

[andy hughes]

Lovelace Watkins was known in the UK as 'The black Tom Jones', and 'The Black Velvet Sledgehammer'. His massive success here, including a sell-out series at the prestigious 'Talk Of The Town' in London gave him hiterto denied star status in the United States. Watkins concentrated exclusively on his American caberet career after 1990. He died aged 57 from leukaemia in hospital in Las Vegas. Watkins left behind eight children from his several marriages.