Bryan AdamsBy: Isaac Johnson and Addison Nagel

What he does/bandBryan Adams is a guitarist, singer, composer, record producer, photographer, and a philanthropist. He has a backing band. Which includes Bryan Adams (lead vocals) Keith Scott, (lead guitar and backing vocals) Micky Curry, (drums) Dave Taylor, (bass) Tommy Mandel, (keyboards) Pat Stewart, (drums, backing vocals). That was the people in his band from 1983-1986. Some of them (throughout the years) have parted away from the band.

Childhood

Bryan Adams was born on November 5, 1959 and born in Kingston, Ontario. His parents (Elizabeth Jane Adams and Conrad J. Adams) were former British citizens and moved to Canada.

Adulthood

In 2009, Bryan Adams got married to Alicia Grimaldi, his former assistant. They had two girls together, Mirabella Bunny Adams, and Lula Rosylea Adams. Mirabella is currently 9 years old. Lula is currently 8 years old. They currently living in London Britain.

First Hit Song and Album

Bryan Adams’s first song was Hidin’ From Love. It reached #64 on the Canada RPM charts. His first album was called Bryan Adams it peaked at number #69 on the album charts

1980s Part 1

After his first album he went back to the recording studio to record his second album “You Want It You Got It”. His third album “Cuts Like A knife” was his breakthrough Album. The first single from the album “Straight From The Heart” reached Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Other singles from the album includes “Cuts Like A Knife” and “This Time’’ which both songs reached the top 30 on the billboard hot 100.

1980s Part 2

His fourth album Reckless has sold 12 million copies worldwide. All six singles from the album reached the top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. One of the singles “Heaven” Reached Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Other Singles includes “Run To You” which reached number 6 and “Summer Of 69” which reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

1980s part 3

In 1985 Bryan Adams did a duet with Tina Turner On “It's Only Love” His fifth album “Into The Fire” was a commercial flop compared to “Reckless’’. However It still sold 2 million copies worldwide and its lead single, “Heat of the night”, still reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100. On December 31st, 1989 Bryan Adams played a show with Huey Lewis and Don Henley in the Tokyo Dome In Tokyo, Japan.

1990s part 1

Bryan Adams wrote (Everything I Do I Do It for You) for the movie Robin Hood-Prince of Thieves. It reached number 1 on the billboard hot 100 for seven weeks. On September 24th 1991, He released Waking Up The Neighbours. It has since sold 16 Million Copies Worldwide, making It one of the Best Selling Albums of all time, and Bryan Adams Best Selling Album.

1990s Part 2

Other singles from Waking Up the Neighbours includes Can't Stop This Thing We Started which reached number 2 on the billboard hot 100 and Thought i’d Died and Gone to Heaven which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. His seventh album 18 Til I Die released on June 4 1996 had the lead single Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman which reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100

1990s part 3

Other Singles from the album includes “Let's Make a night to Remember” which reached number 24 on the billboard hot 100 and The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You which reached Number 52 on the billboard hot 100. In 1996 Bryan Adams did a duet with Barbra Streisand called I Finally Found Someone reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100

1990s part 4

On October 27th 1998 Bryan Adams released his 8th Album On a Day Like Today. the lead single also called “On a Day Like Today” reached number 1 on Canada Top Singles chart. However failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Bryan Adams Released The Best Of Me a Greatest Hit Compilation in 1999. It had the UK number 1 single don't give up with the musical band Chicane.

2000s Part 1

In the concert of Elton John from which the CD and DVD Elton John One Night Only, Bryan Adams participated in at Madison Square in October 2000. Bryan Adams come up at number 13 in the chart for the ARC Weekly release. It’s chart of Top Pop Artist since 25 years in 2004. Bryan Adams shared the stage with Def Leppard over 25 times in tours. He was introduced to the Canadian Hall Of Fame in April 2006. Together with Billy Joel, he performed in a free concert with an estimated crowd of over 500,000 people on July 31 2007. At the end of the concert they gave the audience three encores. They were performing together of the first time. They played “You May Be Right”, Cuts Like a Knife, and Piano Man.

2000s part 2

On the occasion of his 25th concert at the Wembley Arena, Bryan Adams received the “Wembley Square Of Fame” in May 2007. He co-wrote two songs from Bridge to Terabithia in 2007. Bryan Adams released his eleventh album internationally on March 17 2008. On June 26, 2009, with Jason Aldean, he performed on an episode of CMT Crossroads. He co-wrote and produced the song “You’ve Been a Friend to Me” for the film Old Dogs, in December 2009.

2010s part 1

Bryan adams on February 2010, released “One world, One flame”. Adams performed a duet with Nelly Furtado on February 12 2010. The song was called “Bang the Drum”. One of several Candian musicians to visit the Candian Prime Minister at the time (Stephen Harper) at his official residence was Bryan Adams. Adams released the acoustic album Bare Bones in November 2010. It was a live consisting of twenty songs, to celebrate thirty years of career. Adams and his band played in Kathmandu, which was organized by ODC Network and made him the first international artist to perform in Nepal on February 19, 2010. He played at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cricket World cup on February 17 in Dhaka Bangladesh. Then he played the next day in a solo concert.

2010s part 2

On March 18, 2014, in an interview, Adams revealed that he signed a contract with Verve Records in the US. Adams released a new album title Tracks of My Years on September 30, 2014. The album reached number 1 on the Candian album chart. On October 16, 2015, Bryan Adams released his first of all new material in seven years. It was announced that Bryan Adams would be at the 2015 AFL Grand Final, along with English singer Ellie Goulding on September 7, 2015. He performed at the Central Hall Westminster in London, for the the BBC New Years Eve on December 31 2015. During the year 2018, Bryan Adams performed “The Ultimate Tour”. He toured Canada, New Zealand, UK, Europe, the US, and Australia.

2010s part 3Bryan Adams performed a duet version of “Summer of 69” with American musician Taylor Swift during her Reputation Tour in August 2018. He released his fourteenth album of Shine A Light on March 1, 2019. That album hit number one on the Canadian charts. Shine a Light was certified Gold in Canada. The New York Times Magazine told that Bryan Adams with other hundreds of artist whose material was reported destroyed in the 2008 Universal Fire. In 2013, he told the magazine that he tried asking Universal for access to the tapes for Reckless while he was working on a remastered edition for the album, but he had been told that the tapes were never found.

2020s

On November 2020, Bryan was featured on “Stop Crying Your heart Out” as a part of the BBC Radio, children in need charity single. The single hit number 7 on the official UK Singles chart, and number 1 on both the Official UK Singles Sales Chart and the Official UK Singles Download chart. On December 7, 2020, caused by COVID-19 Pandemic, Bryan Adams announced that a series of UK concerts following the long hiatus of the “Shine a light Tour” with the cancellation of a 17 sold date tour with Bon Jovi in US areas. He also announced a UK outdoor concert for the summer of 2021.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bryan-Adams

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https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bryan-adams

https://www.celebfamily.org/bryan-adams

https://www.songkick.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=bryan+adams

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29172/day-real-history-ryan-adams-and-bryan-adams-were-born

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