Vince Hughes

  • Biography

    VINCE WAS BORN IN MANCHESTER 1964, HIS MUSICAL INFLUENCES FROM YOUNG WERE THE BEACH BOYS AND THE SOUNDS OF FRANKI VALLI. WITH THIS STRONG VOCAL IMPRESSION VINCE LOVED TO SING ALONG AND MATCH THESE STARS LIKE FOR LIKE.

    VINCE’S FAMILY HISTORY IS IN THE ENTERTAINMENT BACKGROUND, HIS GRANDMOTHER WAS A DANCER IN THE EARLY 1900‘S AND ACTUALLY DANCED WITH THE WORLD FAMOUS “MR CHARLIE CHAPLIN”, HIS
    UNCLE IS AN IMPRESSIONIST AND COUSIN’S ARE DANCERS TOO, SO THE SEED WAS SET FOR VINCE TO FALL INTO SOME PART OF THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS.

    VINCE BECAME A DISC-JOCKEY BEFORE HE LEFT SCHOOL BACK IN 1980 AT A LOCAL YOUTH CLUB IN
    GORTON MANCHESTER, HE THEN PRECEDED TO PERFORM AT THE TOP CLUB’S IN THE CITY.

    VINCE’S SINGING ABILITY CAME TO THE SURFACE WHEN THE KARAOKE CRAZE HIT THE UK,
    VINCE FOUND HIS WAY ONTO THE HIT BRITISH TV SHOW “STARS IN THEIR EYES” AND WON HIS HEAT PERFORMING AS “DION” SINGING THE SONG “RUNAROUND SUE”

    VINCE THEN WENT ON TO PERFORM AT THE WORLD FAMOUS “LONDON PALLADIUM” HOSTING THE EVENT WHICH WAS A GRAND CHARITY GALA OPENING AND CLOSING THE SHOW, AMAZINGLY VINCE HAS ALSO PERFORMED IN “LAS VEGAS”, THE “ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC” AND OTHER GREAT THEATRES ACROSS THE UK.

    VINCE NOW PERFORMS HIS “STARS IN THEIR EYES ROCK & ROLL JUKEBOX SHOW” THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE UK AND ACROSS EUROPE WITH THE GREAT SOUNDS OF DIRTY DANCIN’, GREASE, THE JERSEYBOYS AND DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS, WITH ALL THE FANTASTIC SOUNDS OF THE AMERICAN ROCK & ROLL SONG-BOOK.

  • Song list

    • Run-around Sue- Dion And The Belmont’s
    • The Wanderer-Dion
    • Sherry- The Four Seasons
    • Runaway-Del Shannon
    • C’mon Everybody- Eddie Cochran
    • Do You Love Me- The Isley Brothers
    • Stay –Maurice Williams And The Zodiacs
    • Handyman- Jimmy Jones
    • In Dreams- Roy Orbison
    • Unchained Melody- The Righteous Brothers
    • Shake Rattle & Roll- Bill Haley And The Comets
    • At The Hop- Danny And The Juniors