Michael Kelland Frank Hutchence (born 1960) was the lead singer of the Australian rock band, INXS. He was born in Sydney, but was raised in Hong Kong. He began performing at the age of eight in a local toy store commercial. after returning to sydney, Hutchence joined Andrew Farriss and Garry Gary Beers in forming a group which would ultimately become INXS. during the 1990's, hutchence was romantically linked to supermodel helena christensen.

He was found dead in a hotel room in 1997, the victim of an apparent hanging, which was determined as suicide - rumours are going around that he was murdered or that it was the fatal ending of a sexual s.

m. game. His self-titled solo album was finally released in 1999.