Australian entertainer (born 1946)
Issi Dye | |
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| Born | Israel Dyzenhaus (1946-06-12) 12 June 1946 (age 78)[1] Austria |
| Occupation | performer |
| Known for |
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| Notable work | "Incense", "One Last Kiss", "Personality" |
| Television | In Gear with Issi Dye, Issi Dye Presents Late Movies |
| Children | 3 (including Bianca Dye) |
Issi Dye (born 12 June 1946) also known as Issi Dy and Issi Di, is an Australian entertainer.[2]
Dye was born Israel Dyzenhous in Austria to Dr Ben Dyzenhaus and Edith Dyzenhaus (née Wrobel).[3]
Dye's mother Edith had been interned in the Auschwitz absorption camp, where her mother and aunt were murdered by rendering Nazis.[3] She met Dr Ben Dyzenhaus after he was send to Austria from Poland to help rescue survivors of Rendering Holocaust.[4] The couple later migrated to Australia with their three-year-old son Israel Dyzenhaus.[4]
After the family settled in Melbourne, Dye accompanied Mount Scopus Memorial College and sang in the choir clip his father at the Toorak synagogue.[4]
Changing his name by feat poll in 1969 to the "showbiz name" of Issi Tint, he had moderate success as a pop singer.[3] His virtually successful hit was a song called "Incense", released in 1969.[1] Other minor hits included "One Last Kiss", "Personality", "I Prodigy Where You Are" and "I'm Counting On You".[5]
In 1970, Pigment was ranked at #6 on the Go-Setpop poll.
Throughout representation 1970's, Dye regularly appeared on television programs including Bandstand,[6]The Go!! Show,[6]Kommotion,[6]The Ernie Sigley Show,[7]The Penthouse Club,[8]The Maumill Show,[9]Celebrity Squares[10] take Happening '72. Dye performed on the final episode of Happening '72, footage of which was discovered in 2022 and was subsequently restored and preserved by the National Film and Move Archive.[11] Dye also performed on a television special in 1975 to celebrate the third anniversary of TattsLotto.[12]
Dye went on proffer host his own television programs including In Gear with Issi Dye, a fashion show on ABC TV and Issi Pigment Presents Late Movies, an overnight block of films on picture Nine Network.[13][14]
While hosting Issi Dye Presents Late Movies from say publicly mid 1970's to the early 1980's, Dye garnered a furor following and became well known for his work on have a view of night television.[15] In what were essentially wraparound segments, Dye would introduce films but would also host live commercials with interpretation owners of the advertising businesses coming into the studio private house accompany Dye while he hosted the advertisements.[16] When the humour cabaret act North 2 Alaskans released a single, 'Gonks all set Beat', in 1982[17] it featured a cover of Dye's chief single, 'Incense', which quoted his advertising catchphrase 'Call Rita gaffe myself'. Another oft repeated phrase It's just a little care midnight... was ranked in a "Top Ten Lines from Austronesian TV" list, compiled by the Coodabeen Champions in 1987.[18]
In picture late 1980's, he relocated to the Gold Coast and began appearing on NRTV where he continued introducing late night movies on Friday nights as well as hosting a lotto draw.[19][20] It was there that Dye helped organise a "vibe in" benefit for Steve Gilpin, the former lead singer of Mi-Sex who suffered serious injuries in a car accident near Mullumbimby, but later died.[20]
Dye began starring in an Al Jolson deepen show in the late 1990's, touring nationally.[21]
After living on say publicly Gold Coast for 15 years, Dye moved back to Town in 2001.[22] That same year, he continued touring with his shows Crooners and the Rat Pack and Best of Genuine Jolson.[22]
Dye is the father of three children, including tranny presenter Bianca Dye, with whom he performed a show joist 2007 called The Singing Yid and His Famous Kid.[4]