Barry Hay

Barry Andrew Hay ( born August 16, 1948 in Faizabad, India) is the lead singer and front man of the Dutch rock band Golden Earring.

Biography

Hay was born in India and moved at the age of eight years in the Netherlands. He lived in Amsterdam and later in The Hague. In the summer of 1967 he joined the rock band Golden Earring, replacing Frans Krassenburg. Hay has created some of the record covers by Golden Earring. In addition, Hay has also released two solo albums Only Parrots Frogs and Angels (1972) and Victory of Bad Taste (1987 ), however, both with little success. In 1994, he sang and played flute in the song Ayreon Sail Away Avalon the single from the debut album The Final Experiment.

In 2001, Hay Den Haag left and moved back to Amsterdam. He was the voice actor for Rock Zilla in the Dutch version of Gene Simmons cartoon series My Dad The Rock Star.

Barry Hay married on February 22, 1992 Sandra Bastian. The couple has two daughters that are born in 1990 and 1999. Hay now lives on Curaçao, where he hosted a radio show.