This artist, eventually known using the moniker Hutch Hutchinson, was scared into expatriate status by a Ku Klux Klan rally in Florida, only to become one of the most popular singers in England. The country-hopping saga of Leslie Hutchinson actually begins in Grenada some eight decades prior to the invasion by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Hutchinson's father was the local church organist, starting his son on lessons at a young age.
Hutchinson headed to New York City in his teens, originally to get a law degree. His financial situation forced him into many day jobs, but he als...