Tony Martin

British rock singer and former Black Sabbath frontman

American actor, baritone saxist and singer, born 25 December 1913 in San Francisco, California, USA and died 27 July 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was married to Alice Faye from 1937 to 1940 (divorced) and to Cyd Charisse until her death in 2008. Tony Martin had enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a star of stage, screen and shellac (his first national hits for Decca came before the Second World War!), scoring international Top Ten singles in the Forties and Fifties along the lines of his rendition of Stranger in Paradise, overshadowed in the wake of Tony Bennett’s competing version. But by the time Tony pitched up at Motown, he had had no hits for eight years, and his film career had long since hit the skids.