Here, we want to share the sad and shocking news that a well-known Scottish singer named Darius Campbell died on August 11, 2022. Darius was a well-known singer, songwriter, actor, and person who made movies.
The news of his death was recently posted on the internet, and it quickly spread through social media. Everyone in the music business is sad about his death. He died when he was 41 years old. Everyone is looking for his name on the internet right now because they want to know how he died. We have more news information here, which we’ll share with you in this article, so let’s keep going.
As we’ve already said, he is a singer, actor, film producer, and songwriter from Scotland. After being on the first season of Popstars in 2001 and the first season of Pop Idol in 2002, he became very well-known. Under the name Darius, he made two albums that reached the top 40 of the UK Album Chart: Dive in (2002) and Live Twice (2004). In 2002, his first song, “Colorblind,” reached the top of the UK Singles Chart.
The report says that Darius Campbell died when he was 41 years old. On August 11, 2022, he took his last breath. The US medical examiner’s office says that he died because he “inhaled chlorethane.” Last month, his body was found in his Rochester, Minnesota, home. The death was ruled an accident by the medical examiner. Since his death was reported on the Internet, many people are shocked. His family, friends, and people who care about him are very sad and shocked by this news. On social media, people are letting his family know how sorry they are and paying tribute to him.
At Bearsden Primary School and the Glasgow Academy, he finished his education.
Avril Camball and Booth Danesh had a child named Darius.
He became well-known after being on the first seasons of Popstars in 2001 and Pop Idol in 2002.
In 2002, Darius’s first song, “Colorblind,” reached number one.
The singer got married to Natasha Henstridge, a Canadian actress, in 2011 and they split up in 2018.
Darius Campbell died on August 11, 2022, at the age of 41. His full name, according to the report, is Darius Cambell Danesh. He was born in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on August 19, 1980. His parents, Avril Camball and Booth Danesh, raised him and his family in Bearsden. At Bearsden Primary School and the Glasgow Academy, he finished his education. In 2011, he got married to the Canadian actress Natasha Henstridge. In July 2013, the two of them filed for a divorce. In February 2018, the divorce was over. Keep an eye out for the social broadcast.
Darius Campbell Danesh was a Scottish singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer. He was born on August 19, 1980, and died on August 10, 2022. He became famous after appearing in the first season of Popstars in 2001 and the first season of Pop Idol in 2002.
Under the name Darius, he made two studio albums: Dive In (2002) and Live Twice (2004). Both of them made it into the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart. In 2002, his first single, “Colourblind,” was the top single in the UK. In 2002 and 2003, his next two singles, “Rushes” and “Incredible (What I Meant to Say),” both made it into the top ten in the UK.
Campbell Danesh played Billy Flynn in two performances of the musical Chicago on the West End. He was Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, which won an Olivier Award, and the first Rhett Butler in Sir Trevor Nunn’s stage version of Gone with the Wind, which also won an Olivier Award.
In 2010, he worked with tenor Rolando Villazón, won the ITV competition Popstar to Operastar, and sang a duet with Villazón on The Impossible Dream. Carmen, which was at the O2 Arena with the Royal Philharmonic, was his first opera. It was the biggest opera production in the UK. At the age of 29, he played Escamillo, Carmen’s lover, in the lead role. In the same year, he also starred in The History of the Big Bands tour, a show that takes the audience on a musical journey through the big band and swing eras.
Early years
Campbell Danesh was born on August 19, 1980, in Glasgow. His mother, Avril Campbell, is Scottish and his father, Booth Danesh, is Iranian. Campbell’s family lives in Bearsden. His younger brothers are Aria (born 1983) and Cyrus. He is the oldest of three boys (born 1995). He went to Bearsden Primary School and the Glasgow Academy[4], and then he went to the University of Edinburgh to study English Literature and Philosophy.
Career
Campbell Danesh’s first job was in an avant-garde production of The Trojans by the Scottish Opera in the 1990s, where he did not sing. Then, when he was still a teenager, he sang in a production of Carmen at the Covent Garden Royal Opera House with the Scottish Opera.
Campbell Danesh first got known when he was on the British talent show Popstars in 2001. A year later, he made it to the finals of the TV talent show Pop Idol. He turned down a record deal from Simon Cowell and then signed with Steve Lillywhite.
“Colourblind” and “Dive In” came out between 2002 and 2004.
Campbell Danesh’s first single, “Colourblind,” came out on July 29, 2002. It went to number one on the UK singles chart and stayed there for two weeks. It was certified silver, and on May 1, 2020, it was certified gold.
In 2004, his first album, Dive In, was certified platinum in the UK. It reached number 6 on the UK Albums Chart during a busy time for sales right before Christmas. After that, he had five singles in the UK’s top ten.
On the Dive In album, he wrote all 12 songs and produced one of them, “Better Than That.” On the other songs, he worked with other producers, such as The Misfits and The Matrix. Steve Lillywhite was the album’s executive producer. Campbell Danesh, who was known as Darius Danesh at the time, went on tour with Shakira and then did his own sold-out UK Dive In tour.
In April and May of 2003, the Dive In tour took place. Due to public demand, the fifteen dates planned for May were changed to 23 dates.
Sink or Swim, Live Twice, and Chicago came out in 2004–2008
His book Sink or Swim about the dangers of the music business was a Sunday Times best seller. He worked with Coldplay and Oasis on a charity album for War Child. He was also the main act with Alanis Morissette in India.
When he heard that his father had cancer that would kill him, he wrote his second studio album, Live Twice, and dedicated it to Dr. Booth Danesh, who later made a miraculous recovery. The title track of the album, “Live Twice,” became his fifth top ten single in 2005.
Campbell Danesh did two West End runs in Chicago in 2005 and 2006. He was the youngest actor to play Billy Flynn since the show opened on Broadway in 1975, when he was only 25 years old.
In 2007, he played Sky Masterson in Michael Grandage’s Olivier Award-winning production of Guys and Dolls. This was after seeing Ewan McGregor in the role. Later that year, he played Billy Flynn again at a charity performance of Chicago in London to mark the show’s 10th anniversary and raise money for Breast Cancer Haven and Breast Health Institute.
In 2008, he went back to London’s West End to play Rhett Butler in a musical version of Gone with the Wind written by Sir Trevor Nunn.
Popstar to Operastar and From Here to Eternity the Musical came out between 2010 and 2015.
Campbell Danesh won the UK talent show Popstar to Operastar in January and February 2010. In the show, eight pop stars learned how to sing famous opera arias. He was trained by tenor Rolando Villazón, with whom he later sang “The Impossible Dream” as a duet. In May 2010, he played the toreador Escamillo in Bizet’s opera Carmen at London’s O2 Arena. At the age of 29, he played Carmen’s lover in the lead role. In the same year, he was the star of The History of the Big Bands tour, a show about the Big Band and Swing Era. The show included songs by Frank Sinatra and music by the most important big band musicians of the time, such as Harry James, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Woody Herman, and Buddy Rich.
Campbell Danesh was chosen to play the lead role of Warden in the musical From Here to Eternity on July 1, 2013.
From 2015 to 2022, Funny Girl and the last works
In April 2016, Funny Girl moved from the Menier Chocolate Factory to the Savoy Theatre in the West End. Campbell Danesh played Nick Arnstein in the show.
A few weeks before he died in August 2022, Danesh was said to be “excited” about an upcoming Pop Idol reunion. It was said that he was going to sing a duet with both Will Young and Gareth Gates in an Ant & Dec-hosted reunion special. At the Criterion Theatre in London, they were going to start filming.
Campbell Danesh played himself in an episode of the TV show Hollyoaks on Channel 4 in 2003. He sang “Girl in the Moon” at a graduation ball. In 2009, he played an Italian magazine editor named Gennaro Fazio on the BBC show Hotel Babylon.
Campbell Danesh was a representative for The Prince’s Trust, which helps young people who don’t have much. He made a guitar for the cause Guitar Aid. He worked with and gave money to cancer charities like the Lymphoma Association and Cancer Research UK.
Life at home
Campbell Danesh married Canadian actress Natasha Henstridge in February 2011. They filed for divorce in July 2013. The divorce was finalized in February 2018.
Death
Campbell Danesh was found not moving in his apartment in Rochester, Minnesota, on August 11, 2022. Later that day, he was pronounced dead. His family said that there were no strange or ominous signs around the time of his death. Gerard Butler, a close friend, and people who had worked closely with Danesh, like Simon Cowell, Gareth Gates, Will Young, and Ant & Dec, paid tribute to him.
Eight days after his death, Darius’s first single, “Colourblind,” reached number two on the UK Official Singles Download Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100.
and charts of sales.
Campbell Danesh’s funeral was held in private on August 25, 2022, at a church in the suburb of Bearsden in Glasgow. Close family and friends, such as Gerard Butler, were there.
The Minnesota coroner’s office says that an autopsy showed that he died from breathing in chloroethane.