Christopher Doig

Christopher Keith Doig (4 April 1948 – 13 October 2011) was a New Zealand opera singer and sports administrator. In 1972 he won New Zealand's Mobil Song Quest and subsequently became principal tenor at the Vienna State Opera. Later in his career he was appointed chief executive of New Zealand Cricket and was a member of the New Zealand Rugby Union board. In 1990, Doig was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the arts, in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, and in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours he was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts and sport.Doig died on 13 October 2011 after a two-year battle with bowel cancer, aged 63.