A previous British Army officer, singer/songwriter James Blunt is a thoughtful performer with a bent for crafting melodic contemporary cushy rock music tunes. Born in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England in 1974 to a family with a long military history, Blunt entered the u. S. Army after graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Ultimately achieving the rank of captain, Blunt served with the NATO peacekeeping operation force out in Kosovo and finished stunned his time in the military as a member of the Life Guard Regiment in the British Household Cavalry. Having long been concerned in music, Blunt diminished no time in pursuing a pop career after leaving the army.
A subsequent performance at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, brought Blunt to the attention of 4 Non Blondes singer/producer Linda Perry, wHO gestural Blunt to her Custard Records mark. Released in 2005, Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam, and its hit single, "You're Beautiful," was staggeringly successful -- it shoot number one in over a dozen countries, and sold over 10 one thousand thousand copies world-wide. Blunt toured for much of 2005 and 2006, then released the two-disc "odds and sods" live/documentary album Chasing Time: The Bedlam Sessions in 2006. He had been piece of writing songs while on the road, and brought Back to Bedlam producer Tom Rothrock in over again to record. (The songs featured writing collaborations with Mark Batson, Jimmy Hogarth. Steve McEwan, and Max Martin, patch the recordings featured Blunt's live financial backing band.) His soph sweat, All the Lost Souls -- featuring the lead astray single "1973" -- last dropped in September 2007.
Albums of James Blunt
Top albums of 1973 CDM
Year 2007, tracks 3
Top albums of All the Lost Souls
Year 2007, tracks 10
Top albums of Back To Bedlam: Live In Paris
Year 2006, tracks 11
Top albums of Chasing Time: The Bedlam Sessions
Year 2006, tracks 12
Top albums of Live at BBC
Year 2006, tracks 11
Top albums of Youre beautiful CDS
Year 2005, tracks 2
