Darien Robert Kabir Angadi (19 March 1949 – 5 December 1981) was an English singer and actor.

Biography

Darien Angadi was the son of painter and novelist

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(née Patricia Clare Fell-Clarke), (who introduced

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of the

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) and Ayana Deva Angadi, an impecunious Indian writer, intellectual and

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. He was born in

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, and attended The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School where he was a prolific performer in school plays. In 1965 whilst at the school, he was a member of the school team for

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's ''Television Top of the Form''. He achieved some fame as a boy treble, recording

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'' with the Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, and songs by Schubert and Schumann. He sang with the Finchley Children's Music Group and then the London Boy Singers. After his voice broke he turned to acting, achieving success on the stage and in television drama productions, including '' I, Claudius'' and ''

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''. From 1968 until 1971 he was a Choral Scholar at

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. He married Irene Lenihan in 1977. He starred in the Horizon episode of the science fiction series ''Blake's 7''. Angadi hanged himself in 1981. He was 32 years old. His story was told during a

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documentary on the schools' quiz programme ''Television Top of the Form'' on 17 April 2006.

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Darien Angadi
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''Shakespeare in Performance''
1949 births 1981 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Boy sopranos English child singers English male television actors People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School Suicides by hanging in England 20th-century English male actors English people of Indian descent Actors from the London Borough of Hackney 20th-century British male singers 1981 suicides Male actors from London Singers from the London Borough of Hackney People from Stoke Newington {{UK-tv-actor-1940s-stub