Biography

Max Whitehouse started his singing career at the age of 6 years in his local church choir St Aidens Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand, under the tuition of Miss Heath who thought he had a great future in music. He performed his first paid gig in December 1956 just before his 16th birthday.

With no money in entertainment at this time Max went into an apprenticeship with his adoptive father George Whitehouse as a diesinker, toolmaker, badge and medal maker.  At the end of his apprenticeship he went farming and worked as a shepherd, drover, pack horse team handler, horse breaker and then into farm management.

In the 1960s Max started performing in cabaret in Wellington, New Zealand part time and drove cabs for a living.  In the 1970s he was well established as a Country / RocknRoll singer and was signed to a record deal and recorded several albums.

In the 1980s he was appearing on television regularly, especially on the very popular international TVNZ production "Thats Country" on which he performed on all the 9 series filmed.  "Thats Country" had many special guests over the years such as Emmylou Harris, Dave & Sugar, Narvel Felts, Box Car Willy and many more.  This production was sold to the USA and was shown on TNN in Nashville.

The Max Whitehouse show is different from the normal band gig as he draws on his cabaret experience, moving around the tables, working his audience and involving them in the show.  His wife Renee accompanies him on stage as vocal back-up singer and support artist.  It has been quoted that Max Whitehouse is one of the worlds top covers singers, the best you may ever hear.  Max continues to perform a number of live club, hotel, pub, private and corporate gigs a month and also runs his record label Aquarius Records. 

Interests:    Max still has an interest in his horses, he has been a rider since the age of 2 years.  He trains New Zealand working sheep and cattle dogs and is currently getting back into breeding these as a hobby.  Another hobby is the growing and training of Bonsai trees which gives him a great deal of pleasure.  He intends to go commercial with this hobby in the near future.

Equipment

To keep the cost of the show at an affordable level, Max now works using the following technology.
We use mini disk players loaded with a pre-planned show.  All backing tracks are recorded using live musicians and vocal back-up singers.  He supplies his own PA system which is a Fender Passport 2500, one of the very best small systems on the market. We supply a small stage lighting rig.  Most venues these days have their own lighting rigs but we can hire larger lighting rigs if really neccessary.

Typical Set List

1.    You Don't Have To Say You Love Me  (Opening number, Elvis version)

2.    Mess Of Blues.  (Elvis)

3.    Blue Moon Of Kentucky.  (Elvis)

4.    That's Alright Mama  (Elvis)

5.    Delilah.  (Tom Jones)

6.    He'll Have To Go.  (Jim Reeves)

7.    Danny Boy.  (Max Whitehouse)

8.    10 Guitars  (Engleburt Humperdink)

9.    Words  (BeeGees)

10.  Bebopalula  (Gene Vincent)

Max works with a repertoire of over 1000 songs in many genre including,  Country, RocknRoll, Blues, Jazz, Irish, Big Ballads, Show songs and much more.

Location
New Zealand / Australia / Worldwide.

Discography
Presenting Max Whitehouse    (1982)
Forty Shades Of Green             (2006)
Max Whitehouse Selection        (2007)

Contact
For all enquiries re shows, recordings etc     Email:    max@max-whitehouse-entertainment.com                                     Tel International and Australia:  +64-6-376-5853
New Zealand:  06-376-58-53  or  0274-470-822

Other Useful Links
http://www.myspace.com/mywebspace
http://www.youtube.com/mywebspace
http://www.AnyLinkYouWant1.com
http://www.AnyLinkYouWant2.com
http://www.AnyLinkYouWant3.com
http://www.AnyLinkYouWant4.com