Christopher Hamill (born December 19 1958) is a British pop singer. He is better known by his stage name Limahl (an anagram of his surname), and was the lead singer of the 1980s pop band Kajagoogoo before embarking on a briefly successful solo career.Hamill was born in Pemberton, in Wigan, United Kingdom. He attended Mesnes High School, in Wigan, before eventually enrolling at the Westcliff-on-Sea Palace Theatre Repertory Company. Despite some success touring with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, he formed a short-lived punk band called Vox Deus. Next he joined Crossword but left to form Brooks with Mike Nolan. He adopted his stage name (an anagram of his surname) at the time he was recruited by the existing members of Kajagoogoo.
Professional career with Kajagoogoo
An advert was placed in music magazine Melody Maker asking for a ?front man who could sing and look good.? Soon after he had joined, the group released their first single ?Too Shy? which went to number one