“Ron Hamilton, a Christian singer, musician, voice actor and performer best known for his ‘Patch the Pirate’ character of Christian children’s entertainment fame, has died after a battle with dementia. He was 72 years old.” - CPost
Ron Hamilton never set out to be Patch the Pirate. A serious composer of formal church music, Hamilton never dreamed he’d become a children’s musician wearing the uniform of a ship’s captain and talking about scurvy and doubloons. But he lost his eye to cancer in 1978 and children began to see him as a pirate, so he became one and sold a boatload of records.
