Complex sentence: Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 − 26 January 2016), known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter, who emerged from the punk rock music scene and went on to achieve mainstream pop success in the late 1980s.
Split into simpler sentences: Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 − 26 January 2016), known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He emerged from the punk rock music scene and went on to achieve mainstream pop success in the late 1980s.