Kevin Bloody Wilson

Kevin Bloody Wilson (born Dennis Bryant; 13 February 1947) is an Australian musical comedian who performs comical songs with his heavy Australian accent and often including sexual themes. He has won one ARIA Music Award.

Early career Bryant was born in Bathurst, although he identifies with Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, where he was an electrician in the gold mines.

In the 1970s, Bryant fronted his own band called 'Bryan Dennis and the Country Club'. He also used the name 'Bryan Dennis' when he hosted a country music show on radio 6KG in Kalgoorlie from 1973 to 1980, before he was thrown off air for playing the parody song, "I'm Heaving on a Jet Plane".

He moved to Perth and began playing bawdy songs as a hobby, singing at pubs and Australian rules football clubs. He had adopted the name Kevin Bloody Wilson by 1984, when he put together a cassette of his songs called Your Average Australian Yobbo, which he sold at gigs and by mail order. He managed to sell 22,000 copies of the cassette before it was eventually transferred to LP, where it went on to sell many thousands more.

He is one of Perth's most famous comedians. His humour is regarded by media commentators as politically incorrect. As one of Australia's most successful comedians, he continues to tour and performs an average of 120 concerts worldwide each year.

Wilson is married and his wife Betty comes on tour with him. She sells merchandise at shows and has appeared on guest vocals in a few of his songs, including "Dick'taphone".

Wilson appeared on the popular television show Enough Rope with Andrew Denton in October 2008. On the show, he told of how he met his wife Betty, who was originally from Kalgoorlie, but lived in Perth at the time they met. She had returned to the town to visit friends and her brother who still lived there and they met when she attended one of his shows. Betty, who was in the studio audience, told Denton that Wilson was a romantic who regularly bought her flowers.

"The Genie in the Bottle", a country song which Wilson co-wrote with Adam Harvey, reaching the number one video spot on the Country Music Television Channel in 2008.

Discography Studio albums YearAlbumPeak positionsCertifications AUS 1984Your Average Australian Yobbo Released: 1984 Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (SBP 8174) Released: 1985 Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (SBP 8215) Format: LP, cassette, CD (BBCD 100797R)8 ARIA: 4× Platinum Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD010916) Format: CD, Digital download—2018Kev's Krissmas Vol 2 Released: August 2018 Label: Kevin Bloody Wilson Format: CD, Digital download—2023International DILLIGAF Day Released: April 2023 Label: Kevin Bloody Wilson Format: CD, Digital download—

Live albums YearAlbumPeak positions AUS 2011Klassic Kev Released: December 2011 Label: Kevin Bloody Wilson Format: CD, Digital Download—201935 Years of Kevin Bloody Wilson Released: 26 July 2019 Label: Sony Music Australia (19075979242) Format: Digital Download, CD, streaming—

His songs generally consist of irreverent humour and plenty of swearing with eclectic musical backing.

ARIA Awards He has been nominated five times for the ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release at the ARIA Music Awards: