He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to music.

[1] Andrew Roachford was born in London, England to parents of West Indian descent.

[2] By 1988, the band were touring, supporting acts such as Terence Trent D'Arby and the Christians.

[2] They went on to have a string of success throughout the 1990s, becoming Columbia's biggest-selling UK act for ten years.

Roachford collaborated with Beverley Knight on his studio album Twice In a Lifetime, which was released in September 2020.