James Blunt

It was almost impossible to miss James Blunt's debut single, "You're Beautiful" in 2005, the song was released in the soundtracks of television and cinema advertising, and almost all radio formats can be identified. Blunt trembling voice announced that the realization of a beautiful woman struck, not by accident, struck a chord around the world love a cultural phenomenon, while achieving number one status in 12 countries and sales of power back to the album into the stratosphere bedlam. His success has also led to support slots on tour with Elton John, and then there was a serious and popular reaction to his style of super-warm delivery that some critics dismissed as a sentimental mainly housewives and students. Although critics of Blunt artistic ego can be embossed, he certainly enjoyed the fruits of his commercial success. "Basic Element" runs through my songs, "said Robin Eggar Sunday Times in London," the only way to lonely walks of life, the connection you make, and the idea that you would not normally with people. "

Blunt was born in a family with a long military history. He studied at a boarding school and joined the Army after graduating from the University of Bristol. He rose to the rank of captain, and finally, by virtue of the NATO peacekeeping operation in Kosovo in 1999. "It was depressing," he told USA Today. "I have seen humanity at its worst and most devastating, and at the same time, people from all sides showed incredible courage in the war." Also at this time playing guitar, James Blunt, to compose songs, including the song "No Bravery" on Back To Bedlam. Inspiration from the song to see Blunt proportion of Serb soldiers currently a good mood and a pornographic magazine was standing next to a group of Albanians, they would shoot. "You can get over it, because you have a chance to return home," he told USA Today. "In my time there I could see in a pub in London and my friends and people who make cool that worried. People that I [in Kosovo] are much longer entitled traumatized because their lives were directly affected will continue .

Returning to London, James Blunt was a member of the Life Guards of the queen. He returned to music after completing his military service, the term "pickup" where he stayed as a child, when he played the flute, violin, piano and heard before he was seven. He bought an electric guitar at age 14 and wrote songs that were inspired by the musicians of the time, like Led Zeppelin, David Bowie and Pink Floyd. Later, he began to compose in the style closer to his musical heroes more current: Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Neil Young and Elliott Smith.

Blunt was released from military service in 2002 and began production in the clubs of London and demos. He signed a management company Elton John and John also received support for his comparison of "You're Beautiful" Blunt's classic "Your Song". After the 2003 South by Southwest Music Showcase in Austin, Texas, was James Blunt Linda Perry on her label custard, signed by a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. It professionally combined with Elliott Smith, Beck, Badly Drawn Boy and producer Tom Rothrock and decided to create Back To Bedlam.

Back to reach number one in the charts in Britain, where he reigned for nine weeks, Bedlam has sold 2.4 million copies and received two awards Brit Awards. Blunt repeated this success in the United States, sales of headlining shows and cleaning support slot with Elton John. Blunt in USA Today: "I think the album in Los Angeles took an American record producer and American musicians, and the questions that I sing about are not specific, where I grew up, you are about what it means to be human. I hope that people can relate every country, race or religion. I take this opportunity to experience the connection of music. "

Blunt sings, shakes and rocks placed on the wicked falsetto to comment much. "I think it took me years to learn to sing like a girl," he said in an interview with Sean Combs in an interview. "I have no lessons or anything. My voice is the most powerful tool I have. I can play many instruments, the keyboard or piano and guitar. But the voice, where I am easier to express themselves."

Returning to the sale of eleven million copies of Back To Bedlam Blunt on the drawing board to write new material for the follow-up, lost all heart. Published in September 2007, the album for me to experience Blunt in Kosovo, to songs like "I really want you", where it is not a romantic or sexual conquest, but the problem is a divine being, to avoid harm to human activities. Blunt also found to resist his fame in the "Give Me Some Love" and the glory of another, as in the song "Annie." Noting that the songs were from the album from the comfort of a holiday paradise of Ibiza and at any time, Blunt was written by supermodels and celebrities, said, Entertainment Weekly writer Chris Willman, the album sounds "strange dark." If you compare the new album Back To Bedlam, he thought he was "less confident artists are trying to be wussy image by strengthening and quickly followed the call. Not Blunt, whose second album effort, if anything, even quieter. There is something almost punk Rock categorical denial. "