Matt Flinders Biography
Matt Flinders is an Australian musician and television presenter, who rose to prominence in the late 1960s with a string of top-five hit singles. On ABC-TV, he hosted the variety programs The Matt Flinder Show and Matt Flinder and Friends.
How old is Matt Flinders? – Age
He is 86 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1937 in Alexandria, Egypt. His birth name is Sylvan Louis Bonett.
Matt Flinders Family – Education
Matt, who was of mixed (French, English, and Italian) ancestry, was in Egypt. In 1950, he traveled to the United Kingdom with his parents and siblings, then to Australia in 1951. In the mid-1950s, Bonett served in the Royal Australian Air Force in Point Cook, Victoria. Three of the Flinders brothers were musicians. Arnold Lloyd Bonett, the eldest, was an operatic bass-baritone who worked at the National Theatre and the ABC. Roland Bonett was a well-known Melbourne performer and dance band leader. After leaving the US singing group, the Kingston Trio, in 1961, Christian Bonett was recruited by Dave Guard in Sydney in 1965.
Matt Flinders Wife
He is married to Coralie Flinders. After leaving the entertainment scene, Flinders worked as a civil celebrant (as Sylvan Bonett) in Adelaide with his wife, Coralie.
Matt Flinders Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Matt Flinders Something’s Happening
Flinders’ first Astor recording was a cover of Herman’s Hermits’ “Something Is Happening.” “Picking Up Pebbles,” his second single, was a cover version of a 1968 track by UK singer Johnny Curtis (a.k.a. Bobby Kerr), and was released by Flinders in late 1969. The track reached No. 4 on the Go-Set National Top 40 singles chart.
Matt Flinders Career
Flinders was conceived c. 1937 as Foresty Louis Bonett in Egypt of blended (French, English, Italian) plunge. With his folks and kin he moved to the Assembled Realm in 1950, then to Australia in 1951. Bonett embraced public help with the Regal Australian Aviation based armed forces at Point Cook, Victoria during the 1950s.
He then started singing and playing guitar in Melbourne under the name, Louis Bonett. He played twofold bass with melodic gatherings, which visited Japan and Australia. In the mid 1960s he got back to Britain, framed one more melodic gathering, and worked in London for a considerable length of time.
At the point when Flinders got back to Australia during the 1960s, he drove the house band, as well as singing and playing twofold bass, at the Chevron Lodging, Melbourne. During that time he sang promotions for Australian radio and television. These came to the consideration of Ron Tudor of Astor Records, who marked Flinders to a recording contract. Tudor recommended a name change so that DJs would recollect and articulate it accurately – he picked Matt Flinders for the pioneer of a comparative name.
Flinders’ subsequently recorded material showed up on Tudor’s own mark, Tale Records. He had another No. 4 hit with his form of Danyel Gérard’s “Butterfly” (late 1971). Gérard’s own form of “Butterfly” came to No. 11 on a similar graph. Late in 1972 he gave another single, “You”, which was composed by Flinders and arrived at the main 40.
Flinders started functioning as a moderator for Australian Telecom Company to introduce shows on both radio and television. His television theatrical presentations were The Matt Flinders Show, with 13 week after week episodes from June 1972, and Matt Flinders and Companions in 1973. One year his TV program won an honor.