Chris Rea’s festive hit “Driving Home For Christmas” became a soundtrack of the holiday [FILE: October 2017] – Image: Ben Kriemann/POP-EYE/IMAGO
Rea, the artist behind the holiday hit “Driving Home for Christmas,” passed away after a brief illness.
The singer had his pancreas removed in 2001 due to pancreatic cancer, while also suffering a stroke in 2016.
The spokesperson said he was surrounded by his family at the time of his passing.
A star of the 80s, 90s
After finding success in the 1970s and 1980s, including a Grammy nomination for the song “Fool (If You Think It’s Over),” he became one of the biggest solo artists in the UK just before the nineties, with two of his solo albums making it to the top of the charts in the UK.
“Driving Home For Christmas,” which was released in 1986, also featured in this year’s festive advert of British retail giant M&S.
Chris Rea was born in 1951 to an Italian mother and an English father in the northeastern city of Middlesbrough, England.
(DW.com/NAN 23-12-25)
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