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Darren Burn
12+ albums
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Darren Colin Burn was born in the Victoria Maternity Hospital, Wood Street, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, on Monday, August 28th, 1961, the son of Colin and Johanna Burn. A child prodigy, he showed great promise from an early age and was a child model by the age of two years. By the time he was nine years old in 1970, he had already appeared in a large number of television commercials, most notably as the little boy in the Heinz Baked Beans commercials and even a film, "The Insomniac" (1970). In early 1972, while a pupil at the Franklin House School For Boys in Palmers Green, north London, he had passed with flying colours an entrance exam to the prestigious City Of London School in Blackfriars. By early 1973, at the age of eleven, Darren was living with his parents (Colin was by now a top executive with EMI) and younger sister Deborah at 17, Queen Elizabeth's Drive, in the leafy suburbs of Southgate, Middlesex (now known as north London) a semi-detached house that backed onto the beautiful Grovelands Park. By this time also, he had, for the past six years, been a choirboy at Christ Church, Southgate, where his unique singing talents had become wonderfully apparent and where he had just been promoted to Senior Chorister, a rare honour indeed for a boy of his age, but reflecting the fact that he was their star turn. In July, 1973, when EMI were searching for a British pre-teen (or weenybopper) boy singer to rival such Americans as Donny and Jimmy Osmond, his mother suggest
