Denis Martin

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{{Infobox musical artist

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| birth_name = Lorenzo Denis Martin

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| alias = Denis Martin

| birth_date = 1920

| birth_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland

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| death_date = {{Death year and age|1988|1920|10}}

| death_place = London, England

| genre = {{Flatlist|

• Musical theatre
• Light opera

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| occupation = {{Flatlist|

• Singer
• musical arranger
• director
• producer

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| years_active = 1940s–1980s

| label = Parlophone

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Denis Martin (1920 – October 1988) was a Northern Irish singer,{{cite book|author=Kitty Black|title=Upper circle: a theatr. chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=94ooAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-51040-2|page=132}} actor and theatre producer{{cite book|title=Plays and Players|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nc8nAQAAIAAJ|volume=12|year=1965|publisher=Hansom Books|page=19}} active in the 1940s to 1980s.

Martin won the All-Ireland tenor competition at Feis Ceoil in 1944,{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} He then moved to England where he performed as a singer{{cite book|title=Theatre World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rAk_AQAAIAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Iliffe Specialist Publications, Limited|page=19}} in musical shows and in radio and TV broadcasts. Soon after arriving in England Denis joined the Players' Theatre,{{cite book|title=Theatre Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f6kdAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=W.H. Allen.|page=174}}{{cite book|title=Plays and Players|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NconAQAAIAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Hansom Books}}{{cite book|author=Charles Graves|title=Leather armchairs: the book of London clubs|url=https://archive.org/details/leatherarmchairs00grav|url-access=registration|year=1963|publisher=Coward-McCann|page=[https://archive.org/details/leatherarmchairs00grav/page/171 171]}} a permanent music-hall company in London. In 1949 he played the juvenile lead in King's Rhapsody{{cite book|author=Adrian Wright|title=A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-war British Musical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcKIhZ8HiGYC&pg=PR8|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-84383-542-4|pages=8–}} with Ivor Novello. He went on to become the Director of Production at the Players' Theatre,{{cite book|title=The Illustrated London News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhhDAQAAIAAJ|date=January 1971|publisher=Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited|page=33}}{{cite book|author1=Raymond Mander|author2=Joe Mitchenson|title=British music hall: a story in pictures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Kk3AAAAIAAJ|year=1965|publisher=Studio Vista}}{{cite book|title=The Spectator|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvweAQAAMAAJ|volume=257, Issues 8252-8268|year=1986|publisher=F.C. Westley|page=155}} (also available online [http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/11th-october-1986/42/arts here]) developing and adapting plays for musical theatre.{{cite book|author=Alvin H. Marill|title=More Theatre: M-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4cjAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=1048}}

Denis's brother Brendan joined him in London as a professional singer at the Windmill Theatre.