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| Birth Name(s) : Bryan Guy Adams |
Date of Birth: November 5, 1959 |
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Dating
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Partner:
Cecilie Thomsen |
| Profession:
Actor/Musician |
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Full Bryan Adams Biography
| Canadian singer Bryan Adams has taken his trademark raspy voice to the top of the charts worldwide. While only one of his number 1 hits was not written for the big screen ("Please Forgive Me"), title tracks such as "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" from "Robin Hood" (1991) and "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" from "Don Juan DeMarco" (1995) have forever immortalized the rocker. |
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Additional Bryan Adams Biography
Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are Reckless, 18 til I Die, and Waking Up the Neighbours.
In 1978, at the age of 18, Adams sent a few demo recordings to A&M Records in Toronto, and was signed to them not long afterwards for the sum of one dollar. He has released 14 albums since then. Some of the first demos written in 1978 have surfaced over the years, most notably "I'm Ready" (recorded for both the album Cuts Like a Knife and later his release for MTV Unplugged) and "Remember", which went on his first album. Both songs were covered by other artists before his first album was even released. It was during this time that Adams recorded the disco hit, "Let Me Take You Dancing". Bryan was apparently disappointed with the sound of his vocals in produced versions of the song , and the song does not appear on any Adams CDs. As of mid-2007, Sirius Satellite Radio plays the song on its Channel 37 (The Strobe).
Reckless was released on Adams' 25th birthday, 5 November 1984. It reached #1 on the Billboard Album Chart and gave rise to no fewer than six hit singles, including Run to You, Summer of '69 and Adams' first #1 single, "Heaven". All six singles charted in the top 20 in Canada. Reckless has since been certified five times platinum in the US.
One of Adams' most successful albums is Waking up the Neighbours co-produced by Adams and Robert Lange. The album was released in September 1991 and featured the single "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", which was also used in the film "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", starring Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman. This album and the single went to number one in many countries in the world in 1991 and 1992, with the single spending record-breaking 16 weeks at number one on UK Singles Chart and 17 weeks on top of US Hot 100 Singles Sales. It also made record-breaking sales of 3 million copies in the US. Canadian content regulations were revised in 1991 to allow radio stations to credit airplay of this album towards their legal requirements to play Canadian music. Adams has won a 1991 Grammy Award in the Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television category for co-writing it.
The next album was the hits collection So Far So Good lead by the new song "Please Forgive Me", a slow rock ballad, both released in 1993. The single reached #1 in Canada, Australia and other countries and the album has since been certified five times platinum in the US.
Later the same year Adams recorded his next #1-single "All for Love" together with Sting and Rod Stewart, for the film The Three Musketeers, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Charlie Sheen.
In 2001, Adams released the live videos Live at the Budokan recorded at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo, and Live at Slane Castle, the recording of the Slane Concert which he headlined in 2000
In 2004, Adams released his first studio album in six years, Room Service. The album went to #4 in the UK and #1 in all of Europe, selling 440,000 copies in its first week there.
In July 2005, Bryan Adams was one of the many Canadian acts at the Live 8 concerts at Park Place (formerly Molson Park) in Barrie Ontario
Also in 2005, Adams sang the theme song for the Fox TV series Stacked (starring Pamela Anderson), which ran for a season and a half.
Adams continues his work in film soundtracks, in the hit movie, The Guardian starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher, Adams wrote and performed the song "Never Let Go" which was featured in the closing credits. It has become known as the theme to the movie. Adams also co-wrote the song Never Gonna Break My Faith for the film Bobby which was sung by Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige. This work earned him a Golden Globe Nomination in 2007.
Adams has talked of recording his eleventh studio album since 2005 and a summer of 2007 release was originally planned.
On 9th May 2007, during his concert at the NEC Arena, in Birmingham, England, Adams announced to fans that his new album was intended to be released simultaneous with his tour, however, the album is still unfinished. He is now hoping for a release before the summer of 2007.
Unlike many solo artists, Adams does not use a rotation of session musicians in his backup band; he has a group of musicians with whom he tours regularly, the lineup of which seldom changes. In this respect, Bryan Adams is more like a band than a solo artist, with the same group of musicians appearing on all albums and live performances.
Adams has also been involved in the production of records that have raised money for charity. In 1985, Adams and songwriting partner Jim Vallance along with David Foster co-wrote the Canadian benefit record for Ethiopia called Tears Are Not Enough. In March 1989, Rainbow Warriors, an album supporting Greenpeace and featuring Bryan Adams with other artists, is released in the Soviet Union on the Melodiya label. Adams' 1998 album, On a Day Like Today, supported the Elephant Sanctuary, Hohenwald in Tennessee and Elefriends in England.
In 1992, Adams became the centre of a dispute on Canadian Content regulations which were changed as a result.
After a performance in Amman, Jordan Adams pleased his Arab fans when they heard (during an interview with a local TV channel) that he was not a supporter of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. |
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