Justin Currie

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Image:Justincurrie.JPGJustin Currie (born December 11 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK) is a British singer and songwriter, best known as the founder member of the successful band Del Amitri and, along with Iain Harvie, is one of only two members of the group to be present throughout its entire existence.

He established the band while still at school in the early 1980s, after putting up a sign in a music shop asking for other people who could play instruments to get in contact with him. As well as being the lead singer and chief songwriter of the band, Currie also plays bass with them.

As of July 2004 the current status of Del Amitri is unknown, as the band were dropped by record company Mercury in 2002 after a perceived lack of success for their album of that year, Can You Do Me Good?. Although there have been no official reports of Del Amitri splitting up, Currie has recently denied any association with, or performing with a new group, Uncle Devil Show.

As a songwriter, he co-wrote many of the Del Amitri tracks with Harvie, but some of their most successful songs have been tracks penned solely by Currie. These include Nothing Ever Happens, Always the Last to Know and Roll to Me.

He is nicknamed 'Ruby', after 'Ruby Murray', the cockney rhyming slang for 'a curry'.

His cousin is Nick Currie, aka "Momus".

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