Frankie Stevens (born Francis Donald McKechnie Stevenson in Wellington, 1950), MNZM, is a New Zealand entertainer and singer.
[2] He began his career at the age of 16, when he moved to Sydney, Australia to join a group called "Peter Nelson and the Castaways".
As a solo artist, his first record "My Elusive Dreams" in 1969 was a major hit in New Zealand.
[3] The next year, he moved to London where he won the talent show Opportunity Knocks six times in a row, sang at both The Palladium and Albert Hall, represented Great Britain in several song contests, winning the Silver Prize in the Second Tokyo Music Festival, the Bronze Medal in Caracas Venezuela, and the Gold Medal at the Golden Orpheus Song Festival in Bulgaria.
[5] In the 2005 New Year Honours, Stevens was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to entertainment.