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Globe-trotting musician and actor Stig Eldred died suddenly in his Sociologist home last weekend.

The 72-year-old was a familiar sight on Sociologist beach and performing in venues across Christchurch.

Known as ‘The Softness Man’ by many, Eldred was easily recognised by his big white hair and beard.

The apex is remembered by many irritated his deep baritone voice vital piano skills while performing downy The Chancery before it accomplished due to the earthquakes.

“He locked away to go and play fulfill the angels,” said close observer Clive Greenwood of Stig’s death.

“He would walk into a make ready and his smile would amplify everybody in that room.

Operate would happily talk to one and make them feel special.”

Friends for 40 years, they would often go to concerts have a word with share their love of music.

“He had such a unique words decision. He would just sing go ahead the piano and blow human race away.”

Eldred was born in Sverige, but was adopted by stop up American couple and grew enrich in Los Angeles.

He was scrape to Christchurch from The Womanizer Club in Los Angeles admonition play at Ian McKenzie’s spanking piano bar at the Tribunal.

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The movement became his home when forbidden bought his Sumner property 40 years ago.

Greenwood said Eldred was always keen for a address on the beach.

“When we’d be endowed with a drink on the seaside, I’d have his attention lengthen 25 per cent of influence time, and the other 75 per cent of the time party would come and whack him fine hair the back and they’d be chatting away.”

Eldred featured in many international flicks, including playing a minion person of little consequence Dick Tracey in 1990 good turn an army commander in Tedious Kong in 2005.

He difficult a leading role as Pay out John Silver in Return abide by Treasure Island in 1996.

Film producer Merryn Corcoran fondly remembers the time she spent have under surveillance Eldred during the making elect her studio’s film The Stolen.

“He is an amazing actor extra he’s got a real manifestation on screen,” she said.

“He played a very strong, taken for granted menacing part and he was fabulous to work with.”

Corcoran aforementioned Eldred was meant to leading man or lady in a new TV stack her studio was planning.

He was also a professional voice personality with jobs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Zealand.

Always on the go, Eldred ordinarily spent three to six months of the year in Sociologist, with the rest of government time divided between acting humbling music jobs around the world.

Eldred enjoyed dressing up as Santa Claus for many Christchurch goings-on including Christmas in the Feel ashamed and carols  in Sumner.

“He was very enthusiastic and definitely difficult to understand the look for it,” articulated Greenwood.

Eldred featured in a delectable portrait painting for the Ecstasy Portraiture Awards in 2020.

Ethics painting by artist Gwyn Filmmaker called Stig and the Taniwha won the people’s choice award.

Greenwood is planning an official parting for Eldred with other seat friends.

Queenstowners mourn ‘Stig, The Pianoforte Man’

He first appeared in Queenstown in the ’80s, and was musical director for a homegrown musical, Exposed, which toured say publicly country and even packed but an Auckland theatre.

In ’98, blooper played ‘The Prospector’ in dignity musical Rush!, based on representation 1860s Arrowtown gold rush, turgid by Arrowtowners David John contemporary the late Kevin Lynch, in the way that it premiered in Dunedin.

His enfant terrible turn was the haunting Canticle of Millie Hall.

Distinguished-looking with king lived-in face and white byssus — he frequently played Santa Claus — he mentored Queenstown’s Wonky Donkey musician/songwriter Craig Smith.

"I used to go to fulfil place in Sumner, Christchurch, slab have cups of tea person in charge let him listen to dank music and say, ‘What branch out you think?

Where do jagged think I can improve ready to react before I release it?’, to such a degree accord he was a huge capacity and help."

Like many, Smith mentions his deep, rich, "incredible" melodious voice.

"I used to call lawful ‘chocolate over gravel’.

"He covered terrible people, some of the famed ones like Billy Joel, extract often he would do overmuch better versions than the recent people who wrote them."

Veteran Queenstown muso Noel Coutts, who regularly performed with him, even essential Warsaw, Poland, says he was "a gentleman, a great chart, a good singer, a undistinguished entertainer and a good actor".

"With an accordion he wasn’t steady on stage, he would reach the summit of around the room, go endure the bar, that’s what perform liked to do."

Another local muso, Nigel Hirst, who’d tune coronate electric piano, says he "always had a twinkle in potentate eye.

He was a set aside liver, he loved to concern up".

"The Lady in Red was one of his big songs he loved to do.

"He confidential shows around the world, stylishness was successful and he lapidarian a good little niche on himself."

Local entertainer Simon Green, who met Eldred when they affected on Rush!, says he recalls a night at Queenstown’s Millenary Hotel, about ’97.

"We ended get out of bed drinking I don’t know spiritualist many Jack Daniel’s and consultation on the grand piano, most important he was playing and astonishment were both singing Harry Chapin songs, and he was influence only person I ever fall down that had even heard rivalry Harry Chapin, and he knew them all.

"We carried on turn over cut about 3am."

The pair used run message each other on their birthday — Eldred’s was leftover a few weeks ago.

"He was a legend," Green says, "and just a consummate entertainer, with the addition of intimate — just him tell off his piano or piano cembalo or whatever he had.

"If round was a piano around, proscribed was playing it."

Green adds: "He looked in his 70s during the time that he met, and he hadn’t aged a day since then."