Martin Lee won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 with the band Brotherhood of Man. Now the singer has died at the age of 77.
British singer and songwriter Martin Lee (1946-2024) is dead. The member of the long-standing pop group Brotherhood of Man, which won the Eurovision Song Contest almost 50 years ago, is “peaceful” on the evening of September 29th at the age of 77 fell asleep”, . The cause of death was heart failure after a short illness.
Martin Lee won the ESC with “Save Your Kisses For Me”.
London-born Lee joined the band in 1972 and became the group’s lead singer. Together with Brotherhood of Man, the evergreen “Save Your Kisses For Me” and 164 points, the singer won the Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands in 1976. The song made it to the top of the respective charts in more than 30 countries and is considered one of the best-selling Eurovision singles in the history of the competition.
Lee was not only “a great singer,” the statement continues, but he also wrote most of the group’s hits with his bandmate Lee Sheriden (75). “He will be sadly missed by his bandmates Nicky Stevens, Lee Sheriden and especially Sandra Stevens, to whom he was happily married for 45 years.” Lee and Stevens married in 1979.
The band has “toured the world together in harmony” over the past 50 years and has “many happy memories”, but the singer’s death is a shock and one cannot “imagine a world without Martin Lee”.
Source: Stern
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