Gary Brooker – born in London, England on May 29, 1945 – was a British rock
vocalist and keyboardist best known as the lead singer of Procol Harum. While
the group released a series of albums that were embraced by rock, pop, and
progressive rock fans, their biggest hit was their 1967 debut single “A Whiter
Shade of Pale”. As a child, Gary Brooker took to music at a young age, inspired
by his father, who was a professional lap steel player with the group Felix
Mendelssohn's Hawaiian Serenaders. Gary Brooker studied the piano, the trombone,
and the cornet, but music became much mor...