Sir Robin Millar CBE
Record producer, businessman and Chair of Scope UK
Business and Finance
The man behind the Sade phenomenon, one of the world’s most successful record producers – 150 gold and platinum discs and 44 No1 hits. One of the 3 most successful living blind musicians.
Blind since childhood I have nevertheless had an extraordinary life. A successful guitarist, record producer, photographic model, record company owner and businessman and Government Advisor.
40 years of campaigning for vulnerable people, including as Ambassador to UNHCR, patron of UNICEF, Global Ambassador for Leonard Cheshire and now Chair of Scope, the UK National Disability Charity. Knighted in the 2023 New Year’s Honours.
“On my 21st birthday I said in my speech “Adventure should be real, not imagined.”
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