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Auckland hotel in 1987. Thom heard something he knew would be a winner; Doy playing different kind of lounge music in the foyer and the two got talking. Within months Doy's first Piano by Candlelight album was released. It was a big breakthrough for Doy and they decided to record an album with
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series, which made its entry to the NZ charts at number one in its first week. It was also one of the best selling albums ever by a NZ artist, selling in excess of one million copies in the US alone, and giving Carl the distinction of being the only New
Zealand solo artist up until that time (1992)
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After few years of work on cruise ships at the sea, Doy decided to settle down to pursue his musical career in a different domain. That resulted in him moving to New
Zealand in 1973 with wife Kathy. He started work at Television New Zealand, where he got himself established quickly as a session
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as its resident pianist. He spent the next few years playing between the cruise ship job and in UK clubs as well. In 1971, he was appointed the
Musical Director aboard the Ocean Monarch cruise ship, which was one of the pioneers to have a full entertainment unit aboard.
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in the first live broadcast of the new millennium, to a worldwide television audience of over a hundred million people. Doy was also the music director/arranger of a series of CD albums created by another successful musician, NZ guitarist
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pianist and arranger. That was the beginning of his career as a very popular writer and arranger of music for thousands of radio and television programs over the next decade or so. The most significant work at that time was the
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to have a certified platinum album in the US. The albums have also sold more than three million copies worldwide particularly in most
European countries, the Far East, South America and Canada.
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