Robbie Williams Biography

 

 

Robbie Williams (born February 13, 1974) is an English singer.

Robbie Williams performed his first songs in 1990, with the group Take That. In 1995, he left Take That to start playing and writing music on his own. In the United Kingdom, he has sold more albums than any other British singer, and altogether he has sold more than 55 million albums.

Robbie Williams Music Career

After he left Take That, Robbie Williams' first record was the song "Freedom", which was written by George Michael. His first album was called "Life Thru a Lens". It was first sold in September 1997. At this time, Robbie Williams had many problems with alcohol and depression. "Angels", a song from his first album, became his most famous song. Because "Angels" was so successful, the album "Life Thru a Lens" became much more popular, and he sold more than three million copies of it in Europe.

Robbie Williams wrote "Millennium", which was a song based on the music from the James Bond films, for his second album, "I've Been Expecting You". "Millennium" became his first Number One in the charts. Two more songs from the same album, "No Regrets" (which Robbie Williams wrote with Neil Tennant and Neil Hannon) and "Strong", were both successful in the United Kingdom. Another song from this album, "She's The One", also became a Number One song.

Robbie Williams was not very successful outside Europe until he made the album "Sing When You're Winning", which was first sold in August 2000. The song "Rock DJ" won many awards: for example, it was called "Best Single (song) Of The Year" at the Brit Awards, and MTV gave Robbie Williams an award for the special effects in the video. At this time, Robbie Williams recorded a duet, "Kids", with Kylie Minogue. Many of his songs, for example, "Supreme" and "Better Man", became popular in many different countries.

In 2001, Robbie Williams recorded covers (copies) of several songs that had been performed earlier by Frank Sinatra. One of these songs was a duet with Nicole Kidman, called "Somethin' Stupid". Later in 2001, he began to sell the album "Swing When You're Winning". The album became successful very quickly. Altogether he sold 7 million copies. A song from the album, "Beyond the Sea", was used at the end of the film "Finding Nemo". At this time, he also recorded a song he had written, "Eternity", which was not on any albums. It was very successful and became a Number One song.

In 2002, Robbie signed a contract to say he would work for the company EMI. He worked on his next album, "Escapology", for a year. Many people think that "Escapology" was different from Robbie Williams' earlier music. The album was very successful in Europe, but it was not so successful in America. For the video for the song "Something Beautiful", Robbie ran a competition. The winner of the competition would pretend to be Robbie in the video. In the end, he chose three winners, so he made three different videos for the song.

In 2004, Robbie put his most popular songs together. He called this collection "Greatest Hits". There were also some new songs on this album, for example, "Radio".

In February 2005, the Brit Awards TV Show asked people to vote to answer the question "What was the best song between 1980 and 2005?" The winner was "Angels" by Robbie Williams.

In October 2005, Robbie's sixth album, "Intensive Care", was first sold. Robbie Williams and Steven Duffy wrote the songs for this album. At this time, four of the singers from Take That went to London for a TV show. They asked Robbie to come, but Robbie said he did not want to come to London with them. The newspaper The Sunday Mirror said that the other singers were "gutted" (very unhappy and disappointed) because Robbie would not come.

In 2006, Robbie Williams started to perform at concerts all over the world. He recorded his new song, "Rudebox", which was very different from his other songs. Many people did not like it, and the newspaper The Sun said that "Rudebox" was "the worst song ever". The song was quite successful, but the album, which was also called "Rudebox", sold fewer copies than any of Robbie's other albums.

At the moment, Robbie Williams is writing songs for a new album. Guy Chambers is also writing music for this album. It will probably be finished in autumn 2009.

Robbie Williams Biggest hits

* 1997: Angels
* 1998: Let me entertain you
* 1998: Millennium
* 1999: She's the one
* 2000: Rock Dj
* 2001: Something Stupid
* 2002: Feel
* 2003: Come Undone
* 2004: Radio
* 2005: Tripping
* 2005: Advertising Space
* 2007: She's Madonna
* 2009: Bodies