Nick Gilder is tagged as: rock, canadian, oldies, 70s, 80s Nick Gilder (born December 21, 1951 in London, England) is a canadian pop and rock singer-songwriter. He first came to prominence as frontman for the Canadian glam rock band Sweeney Todd. They had a number one hit, “Roxy Roller”, which held on to the top spot in the Canadian music charts for 3 weeks in 1975. It went on to win a Juno Award for bestselling single the following year. Feeling they had international scope, Gilder and fellow band member, guitarist and songwriting partner, James McCulloch left the band and signed an American record deal. Gilder’s first album attracted some critical praise but failed to break into the commercial mainstream. It wasn’t until his second solo album, which spawned the smash hit “Hot Child In The City”, that Gilder finally had chart success in the United States. That song went to No.1 both in Canada and the U.S. It also earned Gilder two more Juno Awards: ‘Best Selling Single’ and ‘Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year’. He also won a People’s Choice Award in the U.S. With several successful songs on the topic of wayward youths, he gained the nickname “The Nabokov of the Jukebox”. Later releases proved less successful, and interest in Gilder’s own musi... Read More About Nick Gilder Biography...  Send Nick Gilder ringtones to your cell
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