The English counter-tenor, Alfred Deller, was the man most responsible for the renaissance of music for counter-tenor in the 20th century. He was a pioneer in popularizing the current practice of authentic early music performance, and he revived the counter-tenor voice as a vehicle for accurate performances of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. Alfred Deller was virtually completely self-taught. His father was a PE teacher for the Army and not musical. Alfred began to sing as a boy soprano, later developing the alto (counter-tenor) range. He sang in the choirs of the Canterbury Cathedral from 1940 to 1947, and at St. Paul in London. Michael Tippett heard him with the Canterbury Cathedral choir and invited him to London to make his debut. Alfred Deller came to the attention of the English public after a 1946 radio broadcast of Purcell's Come, ye Sons of Art, away. During the early years of his career, he concentrated on performing Eng...