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{{short description|Indian singer-songwriter (born 1959)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Gary Lawyer
| image = File:Gary Lawyer.jpg
| caption = Gary Lawyer From The Sophie
| alt =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1959
| birth_place =
| alias =
| origin = [[Mumbai]], India
| instrument = vocals, guitar
| genre = Pop, [[Blues music|blues]], jazz
| occupation = Instrumentalist, singer-songwriter
| years_active = Since the 1980s
| label =
| associated_acts =
| website = {{URL|garylawyermusic.com}}
}}
'''Gary Lawyer''' (born 1959) is an Indian singer-songwriter known for his works predominantly in Western Music & Bollywood. He started his career as a [[nightclub singer]] in New York City.<ref>Transcript (of online chat, 13 May 2005). [http://chatinterviews.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1107410.cms "Gary Lawyer"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130126033336/http://chatinterviews.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1107410.cms |date=26 January 2013 }}. [[Indiatimes]]. Retrieved February 2013</ref> Also known as " The man with a golden voice".<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/i-live-life-on-my-own-terms-gary-lawyer/article23891697.ece|title= I live life on my own terms: Gary Lawyer|date= 15 May 2018| first=Deepa | last=Gupta | newspaper=The Hindu | accessdate=12 January 2019 }}</ref>

==Career==
He is the first Indian to be signed for a western album outside India and the first English music video "nights on Fire" to be played on MTV in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zimbio.com/Bollywood+Movies/articles/HwFCmJ_hzpq/Shekhar+conversation+Gary+Lawyer+Episode+89 |title=Shekhar in conversation with Gary Lawyer – Episode 89 – Bollywood Movies |publisher=Zimbio |date= |accessdate= 12 October 2011}}</ref>
Lawyer has a bass baritone, who sings in the tenor range.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uypqW7GxtCs |title=Road ke har Mod Pe |publisher=YouTube |date=5 September 2010 |accessdate=12 October 2011}}</ref> During his youth he studied music in New York City, before returning to his roots in Bombay to further build his career, leaving behind the many contracts he was offered in NY.

Today he is known in India as "the man with a golden voice". As well as music from his own albums he also sings covers by great rock & jazz musicians such as The doors, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Freddy Mercury and many more. He has been the opening act for many international musicians such as Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, Def Leppard, and has even played tributes to "Queen" by playing for Freddy Mercury's family and friends.

Gary also has broadened his horizons and sung for Bollywood Films as well which have gone on to become hits. That said he has been perhaps the greatest inspiration for young indian rockers, never giving up on his goal- always pushing for the talent in western forms of music to finally step into the light in a world which is dominated to Hindi/ Bollywood music.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://gulfnews.com/life-style/celebrity/desi-news/bollywood/why-gary-lawyer-has-avoided-bollywood-1.2205133|title= Why Gary Lawyer has avoided Bollywood|date= 14 April 2018|work= Gulf News}}</ref>

===Songs===
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* "Arrow in the Dust"
* "Highway to Heaven"
* "Nights on Fire"
* "This Cannot Wait"
* "The Other Side of Dawn"
* "Deep Blue Dusk"
{{div col end}} "Indian Summer"

===Albums===
* ''Unbelong''
* Other Side of dawn
* Nights on Fire
* Arrow in the Dust

== Selected filmography ==
(vocals)
* ''[[Road (film)|Road]]'' (2002){{spaced ndash}} "''Road ke har Mod Pe''"<ref>Rodrigues, Collin (8 September 2011). [https://archive.today/20130125062616/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Gary-Lawyer-s-Elvis-tribute-for-charity/Article1-743073.aspx "Gary Lawyer's Elvis Tribute for Charity"]. ''[[Hindustan Times]]''. Retrieved 16 February 2013</ref>
* ''[[Corporate (2006 film)|Corporate]]'' (2006){{spaced ndash}} "''Yahan Sabko Sab''"<ref>Nnbhushan (31 March 2009). [http://wn.com/Gary_Lawyer_Indian_summer "Gary Lawyer Indian Summer"] [[World News (WN) Network]]. Retrieved 16 February 2013</ref>
* ''[[Sacred Evil – A True Story]]'' (2006){{spaced ndash}} "''Deep Blue Dusk''"
* [[Jahan Tum Le Chalo]] (1999) – "Your Face Is Face Of Love"

==See also==
* [[List of blues musicians]]
* [[List of Indians]]
* [[List of jazz musicians]]
* [[List of people from New York City]]
* [[List of singer-songwriters]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{URL|garylawyermusic.com}}, his official website
* {{allmusic|id=mn0002550629|label=Gary Lawyer}}

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