John Hanlon

John Hanlon (born 1949) is a New Zealand singer and songwriter.From 1974 to 1976, he collected three successive New Zealand Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year awards, a feat achieved by no other artist before or since, as well as the APRA Silver Scroll two years in succession. Though Hanlon was born in Malaya, he migrated to New Zealand during the 1960s.In 1978 he then moved to Australia running Sydney ad-agency LOUD.In recent years he has moved back to New Zealand where he continues to write books and play golf.