A one-time member of the Pontrhydyfen Operatic Society, he was eventually hired by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a chorister in March 1950, staying until August 1951 when he married fellow D'Oyly Carte chorister Jean Beazleigh. He later co-headlined in a TV series, the musical program "Land of Song", from 1958-1965 with Sian Hopkins. He retired to Spain in the late 1960s.
He used to carry a wind-up gramophone up mountains near his home village to listen to records of Enrico Caruso.
Virile Welsh singer who worked as a coal miner as a teen before singing. Appeared in such productions as "South Pacific", "The King and I", "Finian's Rainbow" and "Damn Yankees" in the 1950s. Made his Broadway debut in a short-lived musical version of "How Green Way My Valley" entitled "A Time for Singing" in 1966.
When he was just 14 his father and mother, sister and grandfather, were killed by a stray German bomb that hit his home village.