Background
Hay was born in Faizabad, India to a Dutch Jewish mother and a Scottish commissioned officer He moved to the Netherlands at the age of eight to live with his mother.
Hay was born in Faizabad, India to a Dutch Jewish mother and a Scottish commissioned officer He moved to the Netherlands at the age of eight to live with his mother.
He lived in Amsterdam and later in The Hague, attending an English boarding school later in life. After graduating from secondary school, he took courses at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. In the summer of 1967, he joined the Golden Earrings, as they were then called, replacing Frans Krassenburg.
Hay created the cover art for some of Golden Earring"s albums.
He has also made two solo albums, Only Parrots Frogs and Angels (1972) and Victory of Bad Taste (1987), but both met with little success. In 1994, he sang lead vocals and played alto flute on the Ayreon song "Sail Away to Avalon," the single from the latter"s debut album, The Final Experiment.
In 2001, Hay left The Hague and moved back to Amsterdam. He voices Rock Zilla, in the Dutch version of Gene Simmons" cartoon series My Dad The Rock Star and appears in a commercial for prescription sunglasses.
Hay now lives on Curaçao where he hosts a radio-show.