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Francis Monkman (born 9 June 1949, in Hampstead, North London, England) is an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of both the progressive rock band Curved Air and the classical/rock fusion band Sky. He is the son of the late Kenneth Monkman, an authority on the writer Laurence Sterne, and of the late Vita née Duncombe Mann.

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  • Francis Monkman (Hampstead, Londen, 9 juni 1949) is een Brits toetsenist. Monkman studeerde aan de Westminster School alwaar hij orgel en klavecimbel studeerde. Latere studies vonden plaats aan de Royal College of Music. Aldaar won hij een prijs in de categorie virtuositeit op het klavecimbel. Hij speelde in het orkest Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Kennelijk wilde Monkman meer, want gedurende de jaren 60 begon hij zijn eigen rockband Sisyphus, dat later zou uitmonden in Curved Air. Na drie studioalbums verliet hij de band om nog één keer terug te keren voor een livealbum. Ondertussen deed Monkman ook studiowerk voor onder andere Elton John, Renaissance (album Prologue uit 1972), Al Stewart (album Past, Present and Future uit 1972). Daarnaast trad hij op met The Shadows en speelde me (nl)
  • Francis Monkman (born 9 June 1949, in Hampstead, North London, England) is an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of both the progressive rock band Curved Air and the classical/rock fusion band Sky. He is the son of the late Kenneth Monkman, an authority on the writer Laurence Sterne, and of the late Vita née Duncombe Mann. (en)
  • Francis Monkman é um guitarrista e tecladista inglês, fundador do Curved Air. (pt)
  • Эндрю Фрэнсис Кеннет Монкман (англ. Andrew Francis Kenneth Monkman) — британский рок-музыкант, автор песен, симфонических произведений и музыки к фильмам, основатель рок-группы Curved Air, один из самых технически оснащённых и творчески разносторонних представителей британского прогрессивного рока. (ru)
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