Carl Sentance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sentance
https://www.carlsentance.com/
https://www.facebook.com/carlsentanceofficial/

From the Classic Rock Show official website:

When were you born?
June 28th 1961.

When did you start to play?
When I was about 14.

Tell us about some of your previous projects.
In the early days I worked with Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath) for about two and a half years, and during this time we produced many songs, videos and showcases before Geezer rejoined Ozzy Osbourne. I also worked with Krokus, a famous Swiss Band recording one album and touring all over Europe with them. I also did 10 years of musical theatre playing some major roles before I did my first professional theatre tour with the rock show A Whole Lotta Metal. And more recently I have been working with Don Airey (Deep Purple), recording A Light in the Sky and one just about to be released with some fantastic musicians such as: Rob Harris (Jamiroquai), Joe Bonamassa, Laurence Cottle (Eric Clapton/Cher/Sting), Darrin Mooney (Primal Scream), Keith Airey (Colin Blunstone/Zombies) and Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake).

Who are your influences?
In the early years it was Rob Halford (Judas Priest), I just like catchy songs with great hooks! I don't know? I like theatrical type voices with lots of light and shade..... Queensryche maybe? And on the heavy side Ronnie James Dio! Just great vocals.

If you had to take one album to your desert island, what would it be and why?
Christmas with Bing Crosby?

What gear do you tour with?
If I'm just singing ME!, if I play guitar a Fender Tele/Strat and Marshal JCM 800.

From Wikipedia:

Carl Sentance (born 28 June 1961 in Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom) is a rock singer and current vocalist for Nazareth. He began his career as the singer for Persian Risk. In 1986, as Persian Risk disbanded, he was recruited by Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler to front the Geezer Butler Band but the group ultimately failed to score a record deal. In 1990, he was sought out by Welsh guitarist Paul Chapman of Lone Star, UFO, and Waysted fame to front a new band, Ghost, in Orlando, Florida. It too never got off the ground properly and was mostly ignored by the industry (although an archives release was put together posthumously by Chapman). Sentance also assembled an American version of Persian Risk with guitarist Mark Lanoue; the band gigged in the Southern US area until their demise in 1995. Back in the UK, the singer was involved in a project with members of Wraith before being asked to front legendary Swiss hard rockers Krokus in 1998; he appeared on their Round 13 album and stayed on for the next three years. In 2005, Sentance emerged fronting Whole Lotta Metal alongside co-vocalist Tony Martin of Black Sabbath fame and other British metal session musicians, assembled for a touring cast of cover versions. The singer also served as the voice for the Power Project who issued the Dinosaurs album in 2006. It featured Sentance and veteran US musicians Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot, Ratt), Jeff Pilson (Dokken, Dio, Foreigner), and Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Dio). On the live front, the singer teamed up with Deep Purple's Don Airey & Friends and can also be heard on Airey's 2008 solo effort, A Light in the Sky, and also on Aireyìs 2008 album "One of a Kind", where he is the lead vocalist on all songs. Sentance issued his debut solo album, Mind Doctor, in 2008; musical guests include Airey on keyboards and the Thunder rhythm section of Harry James and Chris Childs. Sentance became the lead vocalist for Nazareth in 2015.

Also performed with Howie G & Wayne Banks in Persian Risk & Dio Rising.

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