Kevin Bloody Wilson (born Dennis Bryant; 13 February 1947) is an Australian musical comedian who performs comical songs with his heavy

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accent and often including sexual themes. He has won one

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Early career

Bryant was born in Bathurst, although he identifies with

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, Western Australia, where he was an

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in the

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. In the 1970s, Bryant fronted his own band called 'Bryan Dennis and the Country Club'. He also used the name 'Bryan Dennis' when he hosted a country music show on radio 6KG in Kalgoorlie from 1973 to 1980, before he was thrown off air for playing the parody song, "I'm Heaving on a Jet Plane". He moved to

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and began playing bawdy songs as a hobby, singing at pubs and

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clubs. In 1984, he put together a cassette of his songs called '' Your Average Australian Yobbo'', which he sold at gigs and by mail order. He managed to sell 22,000 copies of the cassette before it was eventually transferred to LP, where it went on to sell many thousands more. He is one of Perth's most famous comedians. His humour is regarded by media commentators as

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. As one of Australia's most successful comedians, he continues to tour and performs an average of 120 concerts worldwide each year. Wilson is married, and his wife Betty comes on tour with him. She sells merchandise at shows and has appeared on guest vocals in a few of his songs, including "Dick'taphone". Kevin appeared on the popular television show ''

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'' with

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in October 2008, which resulted in the show's highest ratings of the year. On the show, he told of how he met his wife Betty, who was originally from Kalgoorlie, but lived in

at the time they met. She had returned to the town to visit friends and her brother who still lived there and they met when she attended one of his shows. Betty, who was in the studio audience, told Denton that Kevin was a romantic who regularly bought her flowers. "The Genie in the Bottle" is a country song Kevin co-wrote with

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that spent more than 6 weeks on the Australian Country Singles chart as well as reaching the number one video spot on the

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Channel in 2008.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

His songs generally consist of irreverent humour and plenty of swearing with eclectic musical backing.

ARIA Awards

He has been nominated five times for

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at the

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Website

Wilson was the first Australian performing artist to have a website which a friend set up for him in 1993, which has since been a major source of album and product sales. He also runs an internet radio station kevfm.com, which was the first 24-hour adult comedy radio station.

Daughter

Tammy Jo "

Jenny Talia Jenny Talia (born as Tammy-Jo Bryant) is an Australian-born United States-based comedy singer-songwriter. She also performs country music as T. J. Dennis. Talia is the daughter of Kevin Bloody Wilson, an Australian comedian and entertainer, for ...

" Bryant has followed in her father's footsteps singing similarly bawdy songs, some of them being reworded Kev songs, but done from a female perspective.

References

External links

Official Website
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