Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams biography

Bryan Adams, (born Bryan Guy Adams, 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. For his contributions to music, Adams has many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, and American Music awards. In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards for song composition and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films.

Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world.

Adams was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with the 2,435th star in March 2011 and Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, and in April 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards. In 2008, Bryan was ranked 38 on the list of All-Time top artists by the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. On 13 January 2010, he received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for his part in numerous charitable concerts and campaigns during his career, and on 1 May 2010 was given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.

Early life

Adams was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to parents originally from the United Kingdom. From his grandmother, he also inherited a Maltese ancestry. As Adams' father was a Canadian diplomat, Adams grew up traveling around the world with his parents. Most of his youth was spent growing up between his father's diplomatic postings in Europe and the Middle East. He traveled extensively through his parents' native Britain, as well as a year in Tel Aviv, Israel, four years plus in Lisbon, Portugal and a year in Vienna, Austria. Finally in 1973, Adams' family returned to Canada to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Music career

Early career

Around the age of 14-15, Adams worked as a dishwasher to be able to afford a proper guitar, he quit the job after a year and started auditioning as a guitarist while rehearsing his own band in his mother's rented basement in North Vancouver. Adams elected to sing until they found a singer, but they never found one, and his auditioning landed him a few jobs, with bands like Shock and Sweeney Todd, who in 1976 released If Wishes Were Horses with the 15-year-old Adams as the singer. He quit school to play nightclubs and go on the road and upon his return he settled into the Vancouver studio scene, working as a background vocalist for the CBC and working with keyboardist Robbie King, to whom Adams attributes gave him his first paying session.

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