My Favourite Singer...
2009-11-12 @ 07:17:05
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is a BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. His career started in 1990, at the age of 16, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That. He left the band in 1995 to launch his solo career.
He has enjoyed a very successful solo career, and his latest studio album Reality Killed the Video Star was released on November 9th 2009, including his latest hit, Bodies.
After leaving Take That, Williams launched his solo career starting things off in 1996 by covering George Michael's "Freedom", the single reached number two in the UK Singles Chart twenty-six places higher than George Michael's original.
Recordings for Williams' first album began at London's Maison Rouge studios in March of that year. Shortly after his introduction to Guy Chambers, Williams released "Old Before I Die" which would be the first single taken from his début album. Co-written by Williams with Eric Bazilian and Desmond Child, the single was released in April 1996, hitting number-two on the UK Charts however, it was largely ignored on international charts. The second single, "Lazy Days", was released in mid-1997. Although Williams was going through re-hab at the time, he was allowed to check out to shoot the video for the song, but promotion for the single was non-existent, so whilst the single charted at number eight in the United Kingdom, it struggled to reach the top forty of any European chart.
He has enjoyed a very successful solo career, and his latest studio album Reality Killed the Video Star was released on November 9th 2009, including his latest hit, Bodies.
After leaving Take That, Williams launched his solo career starting things off in 1996 by covering George Michael's "Freedom", the single reached number two in the UK Singles Chart twenty-six places higher than George Michael's original.
Recordings for Williams' first album began at London's Maison Rouge studios in March of that year. Shortly after his introduction to Guy Chambers, Williams released "Old Before I Die" which would be the first single taken from his début album. Co-written by Williams with Eric Bazilian and Desmond Child, the single was released in April 1996, hitting number-two on the UK Charts however, it was largely ignored on international charts. The second single, "Lazy Days", was released in mid-1997. Although Williams was going through re-hab at the time, he was allowed to check out to shoot the video for the song, but promotion for the single was non-existent, so whilst the single charted at number eight in the United Kingdom, it struggled to reach the top forty of any European chart.