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Chris Rea

Christopher "Chris" Anton Rea (born March 4, 1951, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England) is a British singer and songwriter, known for his distinctive husky voice and slide guitar playing. The singer achieved the peak of his success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the release of his tenth studio album, The Road to Hell (1989), which many consider one of his best, as well as the subsequent album Auberge (1991). After a serious illness (recurrent cancer with the removal of the pancreas), he stopped collaborating with major record companies and began recording exclusively blues music. The result was several albums, and at least two of them unexpectedly turned out to be quite commercially successful: these are, first and foremost, Dancing Down the Stony Road (2002), which achieved gold status, and Santo Spirito Blues (2011).