ABOUT ME

BODY AND SOUL 



Ken Eden

Ken has lived in Somerset for over 25 years with his lovely wife Paula. They have a daughter Kristina-Yolanda and five grandchildren all living in this beautiful county with its moors,coastline and wild ponies. 

Ken is from the West Midlands originally,but moved to London prior to the move to the West Country.He worked in the media,mostly in publishing and sales.

He has always loved to sing and entertain,and polished his craft singing in London clubs/pubs/theatres etc in his spare time. The hard work paid off,culminating in a recording contract with Decca Records,and a spot on TV's 'New Faces' (similar to the "X FACTOR") where he impressed with his smooth crooning style.

The recordings with Decca,the great Johnny Mercer composed ballad “The Nearness of You”,and the quirky “If I Had a Million Dollars” were well received by the music media,and, coupled with the TV exposure helped expand Ken into a full time show- biz career.

After a few years working in the somewhat precarious club-land circuit,he and Paula felt the need to launch there own business in the West Country and moved to Minehead on the coast. Ken kept up the singing, gigging from time-to-time on a semi-pro basis both in the UK and overseas in Europe and the USA.

His love has always been the great standard jazz and ballad songs of the “golden years” and he has begun not only to perform but to

write/record them in “The Great American Songbook Blog” online in recent times,wishing to keep alive the sentiment of a lyric from the song “Stardust” (his theme song)....'THE MUSIC OF THE YEARS GONE BY..'

Kens' unique vocal style and delivery have made him a sought after
performer especially for clubs,bistro's & more recently care homes where he enjoys the fact that the therapeutical value of music,helps older folk to recall valued memories from their past.!

He has a passion,also, to keep alive the marvellous songs from the golden age of popular music (sung in the same vocal style)regarding them as valuable "antiques" and as a rich heritage for future generations of music lovers.