James Hillier Blount, better known as James Blunt, is a Grammy Award-nominated British singer-songwriter and musician.

Born 22nd February 1974 in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, Blunt fell in love with music at a young age. He had learned to play piano, violin and guitar, and was writing his own music, by his early teens. However, a long standing family tradition of serving in the armed forces persuaded Blunt to join the British Army in the mid-1990s. After training at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst and rising to the rank of Captain, he served in Canada and Kosovo for six years before leaving the army in 2002 to pursue a career in his first love – music.

Blunt was very quickly signed to EMI Records, and later to Custard Records, with whom he released his debut album in March 2005. Back to Bedlam was an instant success, shooting straight to number one in the UK and Australia and number two in the US, and selling over eleven million copies worldwide. It eventually went on to become the UK’s best-selling record of the decade and earned Blunt a total of two Ivor Novello Awards and five Grammy Award nominations.

The album’s lead single You’re Beautiful became a global smash hit, reaching the top of the charts in the UK, Canada, the US and six other countries. This was followed by three more UK Top 40 singles: High, Goodbye My Lover and Wiseman.

The singer’s second album All The Lost Souls was released in September 2007, reaching number one in the UK, Canada and fifteen other countries around the world, as well as the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. The lead single 1973 reached the Top 5 in several countries, while follow-up singles Same Mistake, Carry You Home, I Really Want You and Love, Love, Love also performed well.

Amy Winehouse is a multiple Grammy Award-winning British singer and songwriter, renowned for her blending of musical genres as diverse as soul, jazz, R&B and ska, as well as for her personal lyrics and powerful vocals.

Born in London on 14^th September 1983, Winehouse attended the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School from the age of nine, before joining the renowned Sylvia Young Theatre School at thirteen, where she first started learning the guitar and writing music. She also later attended the famous BRIT School.

While still in her teens, Winehouse submitted a demo tape to an A&R person, leading to her signing with Simon Fuller’s record label 19 Management. In October 2003 she released her debut album Frank.

The album was certified double platinum in the UK, reached number thirteen in the charts and produced the singles Stronger Than Me, Take the Box, In My Bed/You Sent Me Flying and Fuck Me Pumps/Help Yourself. It also earned critical acclaim, being nominated for two BRIT Awards and an Ivor Novello Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize.

However, it was her second album, 2006’s Back to Black, that catapulted Winehouse to international stardom. Reaching numbers one and two in the UK and US charts respectively, to date the album has sold over ten million copies worldwide and produced five smash hit singles: Rehab, You Know I’m No Good, Back to Black, Tears Dry on Their Own and Love Is a Losing Game. It was also nominated for six Grammy Awards in 2008, winning a total of five (including Best New Artist).

The popularity of Amy Winehouse’s music, coupled with almost daily media reports of substance abuse, relationship breakups and health concerns, have ensured she has become one of the world’s most recognizable musicians.

She is currently working on new material and there are rumors of a third album release in late 2010/early 2011.

Sting is the professional stage name of popular British singer-songwriter Gordon Sumner CBE, famous as a solo performer and member of the rock band The Police.

Born in Wallsend, England on 2^nd October 1951, Sumner learned to play the Spanish guitar at a very young age. While playing music gigs as a teenager he used to wear a black and yellow sweater with hooped stripes and was told he looked like a wasp – leading to the nickname Sting. In 1977 he moved to London, met Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani (soon to be replaced by Andy Summers) and formed New Wave rock trio The Police.

The band released their first album Outlandos d’Amour, containing their unique brand of rock music infused with jazz, punk and reggae, in 1978. Although initially unsuccessful, the singles Roxanne and Can’t Stand Losing You slowly gained popularity and soon The Police were on everybody’s radar.  As a result of their slow success, their second album Reggatta de Blanc topped the UK charts, spawning the number one singles Message in a Bottle and Walking on the Moon, while the title track won a 1981 Grammy Award.

The group’s final album Synchronicity included their most successful song: Every Breath You Take. The single spent eight weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and earned the band two Grammy Awards, but soon after its release the group separated to work on solo projects. Sting immediately started performing alone and released his first solo single in 1982, a cover of Vivian Ellis’ Spread A Little Happiness, which reached number sixteen in the UK.

Sting’s first solo album, 1985’s The Dream of the Blue Turtles, went triple platinum and included the hit singles If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, Fortress Around Your Heart and Love Is the Seventh Wave. The album …Nothing Like the Sun followed in 1987 and sparked hits like We’ll Be Together, Fragile and Englishman in New York, while 1991’s The Soul Cages spawned four hit singles – All This Time, Mad About You, Why Should I Cry For You and The Soul Cages – and won Sting yet another Grammy Award.

Sting continued to release music throughout the 1990s and 2000s, most notably the singles Fields of Gold, All For Love, Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot and Desert Rose, and is still producing music today. He is currently touring North America and Europe with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Robbie Williams is a British singer-songwriter and musician, famous both as a former member of pop band Take That and as a subsequent solo performer.

Robert Peter Williams was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England on 13^th February 1974. After leaving school with no qualifications, he briefly worked as a double glazing salesman before deciding to audition for a new boy band being started by manager Nigel-Martin Smith.

In 1990, Take That were formed with Robbie as the youngest member. Within a year, they were one of the biggest bands in the world. Their dance-pop tunes and slow ballads dominated the charts in the UK, Europe and beyond at the beginning of the 1990s, with the band selling over 25 million records between 1991 and 1996 and winning multiple BRIT Awards.

However, as the band had grown in popularity, Robbie had developed dangerous alcohol and drug dependencies, which culminated in him nearly overdosing the night before the group was scheduled to perform at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The band confronted Williams and he decided to leave Take That to begin a solo career

Robbie’s first solo single was a cover of George Michael’s Freedom which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. This was followed by Old Before I Die, another number two, and Lazy Days, which hit number eight. His first album, Life Thru a Lens, debuted at number eleven on the UK Album Charts.

Then Robbie released Angels, the fourth single but the biggest hit by far. It was certified 2x Platinum by the BPI and the song became a hit around Europe and Latin America, causing album sales of to skyrocket.  The album subsequently became the 58th bestselling album in UK History with sales over 2.4 million, plus another half a million across Europe.

A decade and a half later and Robbie Williams is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. He has sold more albums in the UK than any other British artist in history and has won more BRIT Awards than anybody else.

With smash-hit songs like Rock DJ, Kids, Eternity and Feel, it’s no wonder he has sold more than 55 million albums around the world.