Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams is one of the most successful British, male, artists of all time; he has sold more albums (55 million albums worldwide) and won more BRIT awards that any other solo artist to date, all at the tender age of 35. Having once been labelled “the fat dancer from Take That”, Robbie Williams has far exceeded expectations and has proved that he is one of the great performers of his generation.
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Robert P. Williams was born in the Staffordshire of Stoke-on-Trent in 1974. Williams grew up around music, his dad (Peter) was a local performer whom Williams often performed with, watching and learning from his dad gave him the inspiration to get into the music industry. In 1990, Robbie joined Take That after his mother heard about an advertisement on the radio, looking for singers and dancers for a boy band. Over the course of the next five years, Take That were the biggest act in the UK, scoring multiple number ones and selling out arenas across the UK and Europe.
On July 1995, Robbie left the Band, after reported drug abuse and musical differences with lead singer and songwriter Gary Barlow. Williams and Barlow went to war in the tabloids in a verbal slagging match that lasted two years, it seemed for a while as if only Gary could win this battle, until Robbie released the single “Angels” written with song writing partner Guy Chambers (In 2005 'Angels' was voted, best song of the last 25 years at the BRIT awards). The song was a huge success and catapulted Robbie’s, Debut album 'Life Thru a Lens' to No.1, and so, the Robbie Williams train had started moving and hasn’t stop moving since. By 1999 Gary Barlow retired as a solo artist.
Robbie Williams has since had seven No.1 albums in the UK and has had multiple No.1 albums across Europe and Latin America; in 2002 he signed the biggest music deal in British music history worth a reported £80 million with his record label EMI. The contract was signed with the incentive to dominate the American music market, the general consensus to date, is that Williams has never quite cracked the American market. It has been reported that Robbie is currently working on a new album with Grammy and BRIT award winning producer Trevor Horn, the album title is slated to be 'Reality Killed the Video Star' a play off of Horn's late 70's hit 'Video Killed the Radio Star'. With two pop music heavyweights at the helm no doubt Williams' next album has the potential to be something special.
Segun Murray Ogunsheye
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