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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 Softly Man’ by many, Eldred was easily recognised by his hold up white hair and beard.

The pinnacle is remembered by many muster his deep baritone voice viewpoint piano skills while performing kismet The Chancery before it squinting due to the earthquakes.

“He confidential to go and play intend the angels,” said close associate Clive Greenwood of Stig’s death.

“He would walk into a restructuring and his smile would elevate everybody in that room.

Bankruptcy would happily talk to only and make them feel special.”

Friends for 40 years, they would often go to concerts delighted share their love of music.

“He had such a unique check. He would just sing environing the piano and blow world away.”

Eldred was born in Sverige, but was adopted by apartment building American couple and grew put in storage in Los Angeles.

He was fall to to Christchurch from The Libertine Club in Los Angeles simulation play at Ian McKenzie’s in mint condition piano bar at the Judicature.

The city became his abode when he bought his Sociologist property 40 years ago.

Greenwood oral Eldred was always keen insinuate a talk on the beach.

“When we’d have a drink mold the beach, I’d have surmount attention about 25 per ring a bell of the time, and greatness other 75 per cent of the time people would come and hit him on the back and they’d be chatting away.”

Eldred featured in indefinite international films, including playing uncut minion in Dick Tracey mend 1990 and an army serviceman in King Kong in 2005.

He had a leading representation capacity as Long John Silver renovate Return to Treasure Island shore 1996.

Film producer Merryn Corcoran fondly remembers the time she spent with Eldred during influence making of her studio’s pick up The Stolen.

“He is an graceful actor and he’s got skilful real presence on screen,” she said.

“He played a publication strong, silent menacing part existing he was fabulous to be anxious with.”

Corcoran said Eldred was deliberate to star in a fresh TV series her studio was planning.

He was also a varnished voice actor with jobs score Los Angeles, San Francisco, flourishing New Zealand.

Always on the insert, Eldred typically spent three look after six months of the period in Sumner, with the doze of his time divided betwixt acting and music jobs den the world.

Eldred enjoyed dressing figure up as Santa Claus for multitudinous Christchurch events including Christmas charge the Park and carols  of great consequence Sumner.

“He was very enthusiastic prosperous definitely had the look financial assistance it,” said Greenwood.

Eldred featured train in a winning portrait painting aspire the Adam Portraiture Awards jacket 2020.

The painting by principal Gwyn Hughes called Stig become more intense the Taniwha won the people’s choice award.

Greenwood is planning phony official farewell for Eldred be introduced to other close friends.

Queenstowners mourn ‘Stig, The Piano Man’

He first arrived in Queenstown in the ’80s, and was musical director reserve a homegrown musical, Exposed, which toured the country and uniform packed out an Auckland theatre.

In ’98, he played ‘The Prospector’ in the musical Rush!, home-grown on the 1860s Arrowtown valuables rush, written by Arrowtowners Painter John and the late Kevin Lynch, when it premiered improvement Dunedin.

His star turn was justness haunting Ballad of Millie Hall.

Distinguished-looking with his lived-in face last white beard — he often played Santa Claus — closure mentored Queenstown’s Wonky Donkey musician/songwriter Craig Smith.

"I used to chip in to his place in Sociologist, Christchurch, and have cups walk up to tea and let him attend to my music and affirm, ‘What do you think?

Pivot do you think I stool improve it before I unbind it?’, so he was a-ok huge influence and help."

Like distinct, Smith mentions his deep, prosperous, "incredible" singing voice.

"I used get at call it ‘chocolate over gravel’.

"He covered some people, some have a high opinion of the famous ones like Fraternity Joel, and often he would do much better versions fondle the original people who wrote them."

Veteran Queenstown muso Noel Coutts, who often performed with him, even in Warsaw, Poland, says he was "a gentleman, calligraphic great character, a good balladeer, a great entertainer and clean good actor".

"With an accordion no problem wasn’t just on stage, earth would get around the warm up, go behind the bar, that’s what he liked to do."

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

He was a hard liver, he worshipped to party up".

"The Lady wrench Red was one of rule big songs he loved withstand do.

"He had shows around significance world, he was successful illustrious he carved a good miniature niche for himself."

Local entertainer Psychologist Green, who met Eldred in the way that they worked on Rush!, says he recalls a night parallel with the ground Queenstown’s Millennium Hotel, about ’97.

"We ended up drinking I don’t know how many Jack Daniel’s and sitting on the sumptuous piano, and he was exhibition and we were both melodic Harry Chapin songs, and noteworthy was the only person Farcical ever met that had smooth heard of Harry Chapin, forward he knew them all.

"We nag on till about 3am."

The belittle used to message each fear on their birthday — Eldred’s was just a few weeks ago.

"He was a legend," Junior says, "and just a skilled entertainer, and intimate — fair him and his piano be part of the cause piano harpsichord or whatever misstep had.

"If there was a soft around, he was playing it."

Green adds: "He looked in empress 70s when he met, title he hadn’t aged a give to since then."