Al Hunter

Al Hunter is these days probably best known as voice for the hugely successful AMP Insurance jingle 'There's a Blue Sky Waiting For Me' penned by Callie Blood, Ian Morris and Jim Hall after AMP failed to secure the rights to Willie Nelson's Blue Skies. 

As a singer, he is up there with country music legends George Jones and Merle Haggard, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle. His 1987 album, Neon Cowboy, presented 11 of his own songs which respected New Zealand Herald music critic Graham Reid said, "make country hip." 

Al Hunter is a double winner of the NZ Music Industries' Country Award, and is currently based in the South Island, working with members of the Coalrangers and occasionally reuniting with former bandmate Red McKelvie.