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Early lifeEdit

Gift was born on 28 May 1961 in the Sparkhill district of Birmingham,<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref> to an English mother and an Afro-Caribbean father. He lived in Sparkhill until the age of 11, receiving his early formal education at Anderton Park School and Arden Primary School.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His family then moved to Kingston upon Hull, where his mother, Pauline, ran several second-hand clothes shops, while he was a pupil at Kelvin Hall School.Template:Cn

Music careerEdit

Gift's first recording was as a saxophonist with Akrylykz, a ska band from Hull. The album was the second release on York's Red Rhino Records.<ref name="Indie, Tony K obit">Template:Cite journal</ref> Although this record was unsuccessful, it did bring him to the attention of Andy Cox and David Steele of the Beat. Akrylykz toured with the Beat,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> which led to them, in around 1985, asking him to be the lead singer of their new band Fine Young Cannibals after their old band, the Beat, had broken up. He also was a guest artist on the Ska City Rockers' "Time Is Tight" single.Template:Cn

Gift has performed as a solo artist, appearing at the Rewind Festival in Henley.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 13 February 2012, Gift appeared on BBC Radio Solent promoting the gigs and announced a potential new album in 2012.Template:Cn

He also appeared in Jools Holland's 20th annual Hootenanny show, which aired overnight on BBC2 on 31 December 2012 / 1 January 2013,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the last to be recorded at BBC Television Centre. Gift sang the Fine Young Cannibals hits "Good Thing" and "Suspicious Minds". Gift was a guest vocalist on Jools Holland's 2013 tour.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ten years after his first Hootenanny appearance, Gift re-appeared in Jools Holland's annual Hootenanny show again, which aired overnight on BBC2 on 31 December 2022 / 1 January 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Gift sang the Fine Young Cannibals hits "Suspicious Minds" and "Good Thing".

Acting careerEdit

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Roland Gift at Guilfest 2011

Gift had his first screen role in a Clash movie, he was a Roadie for them at the time. and also appeared in Out of Order the same year. In 1990 he did his first stage work, playing Romeo in the Hull Truck Theatre's production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a production which had a brief run in the United States at the Staller Center for the Arts.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He also appeared as a lounge singer (singing songs that were included in the Fine Young Cannibals' album The Raw and the Cooked) in the 1987 film Tin Men, directed by Barry Levinson.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1989, he appeared in Scandal as Johnny Edgecombe, Christine Keeler's boyfriend.

In December 1992, he began the first of five appearances as Immortal Xavier St. Cloud in the television series Highlander: The Series, and appeared in a 1993 episode of the Yorkshire Television series Heartbeat (Ser. 2 Ep 5, Over The Hill). He played Ken Marston. He also had a small role as the jazz saxophonist Eddie Mullen in the mini-series Painted Lady (1997), starring Helen Mirren, and appeared in the film The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (2001).

In 2020, he starred as Johnny Holloway, an ex-pop star sent to prison, in the BBC Radio 4 musical drama Return to Vegas. Gift wrote the play and co-composed the music together with Ben Barson, brother of Madness's Mike Barson.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Gift has three sisters and one brother.Template:Cn

His wife Louise died in 2020.<ref name= "Guardian">Template:Cite news</ref>

DiscographyEdit

AlbumsEdit

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SinglesEdit

Year Single UK Singles Chart Album
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FilmographyEdit

FilmEdit

Year Title Role Notes
1987 Tin Men Band Member
1987 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Danny
1987 Out of Order Customer
1989 Scandal Johnnie Edgecombe
2001 The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife Bernard Ivens
2002 Ten Minutes Older Co-Pilot Segment: "Addicted to the Stars"
2006 Money The Man Short film
2016 Brakes Rhys

TelevisionEdit

Year Title Role Notes
1993 Heartbeat Ken Marston Episode: "Over the Hill"
1993–1997 Highlander: The Series Xavier St. Cloud 5 episodes
1997 Painted Lady Eddie Mullen
2021 Meet the Richardsons Roland Gift 2 episodes

ReferencesEdit

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