Gordon Cree was born in Ayrshire and was classically trained in piano and singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. In a lengthy musical career, he has managed to keep a foot firmly on either side of the classical-popular divide.

As a theatre and cabaret artiste, he has accompanied many stars from the world of showbusiness, including Moira Anderson, Peter Morrison, Brenda Cochrane, Jane McDonald, Lena Martell, Jimmy Logan, Jack Milroy and many, many others. He has appeared in some wonderful venues, including the Stardust Room and the Nevele Grande Showroom, both in New York, The Barn in Stockholm, The Kings Theatres in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Heidlburg Castle in Germany, the Tower of London, The Waterfront in Belfast and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. He has appeared aboard the world's leading cruise liners, including those of the Cunard, Celebrity, Seaborne, Olsen, P & O, Royal Carribean and many others. He has, however had the most longstanding relationships with the Glasgow Pavilion, The Kilmarnock Palace and, of course, the Ayr Gaiety.

As a classical singer, he has sung roles in opera, operetta, oratorio and given classical recitals, as well as lending his versatile voice as an overdub for less vocally gifted artistes on stage and screen. As a pianist he has recorded movements from piano concertos by Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Schostakovich, as well as accompanying many classical artistes in concert, recital and recording, including Marilyn Horne, Marilyn Hill Smith, Linda Ormiston, Richard Morrison, Patricia McMahon, Cheryl Forbes, Rosalind Sutherland, Elizabeth McCormack and Sean Rea. As time passes, Gordon's input to the orchestral world is on the increase, with hundreds of arrangements, orchestrations and compositions he has written for leading orchestras and artistes, to be performed - often conducted by himself - for concert or broadcast.

Gordon is proud to be an active member of The Scottish Showbusiness Benevolent Fund and a full member of the British Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.  He also owns the only art deco custom-built concert marimba that Boosey and Hawkes ever made, which frequently appears onstage with him.