Fox

Cerebral, passionate, and fiercely fussy about soulful craft.

Mick Hucknall, the voice behind Simply Red, is famously cerebral and obsessive about musical quality — a self-taught musician who immersed himself in soul and jazz with intense intellectual dedication. He's known for his passionate, smouldering charisma rather than brute showmanship, and has always operated on his own terms, maintaining artistic control of Simply Red as a personal project for decades. His reputation for being opinionated, charming, and deeply particular about his art maps neatly onto the fox — cunning, passionate, and fussy about quality.