BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Robert Peter Maximilian Williams
Description: Vocalist, UK
Known For: In 1999 the release of the album “The Ego Has Landed”.
Instruments: Voice, guitar, bass guitar, piano
Music Styles: Rock, Rap, Adult contemporary
Location: United Kingdom
Date Born: 13th February 1974
Location Born: Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Robbie Williams
An English singer, songwriter.
Robert Peter “Robbie” Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and occasional actor. He was a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995 and again from 2009 to 2012. He has also had commercial success as a solo artist.
Williams rose to fame in the band’s first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and group members, Williams left the group in 1995 to launch a hugely successful solo career, which saw his first seven albums each reach number one in the UK. Williams also released seven number-one singles and found similar success across Europe. On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That. The group’s subsequent album became the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history and the fastest-selling record of the century so far. Gary Barlow has since confirmed that Robbie Williams had left the band for a second time, although the departure was amicable and that Williams was welcome to rejoin the band in the future.
Williams has sold more than 77 million albums and singles worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. He is the best-selling British solo artist in the United Kingdom and the best selling non-Latino artist in Latin America. Six of his albums are among the top 100 biggest-selling albums in the United Kingdom, and in 2006 he entered the Guinness Book of World Records for selling 1.6 million tickets of his Close Encounters Tour in a single day. He has also been honoured with seventeen BRIT Awards—more than any other artist—, eight ECHO Awards and two Grammy Awards nominations. In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame after being voted the “Greatest Artist of the 1990s”. Williams is married to actress Ayda Field. He has a net worth of £130 million (2014).
Williams has currently (based on BPI certifications) sold a minimum of 18.9 million albums and 5.4 million singles in the UK alone as a solo artist. Williams also topped the 2000–2010 UK airplay chart, racking up almost 50% more plays than the Sugababes at number 2. In 2014 he was awarded the freedom of Stoke-on-Trent, as well as having a tourist trail created and streets named in his honour.
Williams was born in Stoke-on-Trent, on 13 February 1974. His parents, Janet (née Farrell) and Peter Williams, ran a pub called the Red Lion in the town of Burslem, before his father became the licensee at the Port Vale F.C. Social Club – this led to Williams’ lifelong affinity for the team. His maternal grandfather was Irish, from Kilkenny.
Williams attended Mill Hill Primary School in Stoke-on-Trent then St Margaret Ward Roman Catholic School in Tunstall, and also attended dance school UKDDF in Tunstall. He participated in several school plays, and his biggest role was that of the Artful Dodger in a production of Oliver!.
Personal life
Since 2006, Williams has spent most of his time in Los Angeles. Williams moved back to the UK in 2009 when he bought an £8.5 million mansion in Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, nearby to close friend Jonathan Wilkes who lives in Swindon. Williams sold the mansion a year later to move back to Los Angeles.
Health issues
Williams has reportedly battled mental illness, obesity, self-esteem issues, alcoholism, and substance abuse throughout his life. He has discussed how his friend Elton John booked him into a clinic to cope with his drug use that emerged from the depression he was experiencing while still in Take That.[93] He entered a rehabilitation centre in Tucson for his addiction to the prescription pills Xanax, Seroxat/Paxil, Vicodin, and the energy drink Lucozade in February 2007. In 2006, he appeared in the documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as someone who has battled with the illness for most of his life.
Williams used to smoke up to 60 cigarettes a day; he quit in 2009.
He revealed in 2011 he had been battling a lethargy caused by a type of hormone imbalance called andropause for a number of years and thought at first it was a return of his depression.
Albums include.
1997: Life Thru A Lens
1998: I’ve Been Expecting You
2000: Sing When You’re Winning
2001: Swing When You’re Winning
2002: Escapology
2005: Intensive Care
2006: Rudebox
Singles include.
1998: “Millennium”
1999: “She’s the One”
2000: “Rock DJ”
2001: “Eternity”
2001: “Somethin’ Stupid” (with Nicole Kidman)
2004: “Radio”
LINKS: Official website
- “And Robbie Williams Investigate UFOs at Gilliland Ranch, page 1”
. Abovetopsecret.com. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- Jump up ^ “Robbie Williams “Swings Both Ways””
. QueerTV. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- Jump up ^ “Robbie Williams duet with Lily and Olly on new swing album”
. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- Jump up ^ “No, Robbie Williams, you’re not 49% gay. But you are 100% stupid”
. The Guardian. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
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. The Sun (London). 2 April 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- Jump up ^ “2dayfm.com.au”
. 2dayfm.com.au. 27 November 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- Jump up ^ Simon Cable (27 November 2009). “Robbie Williams claims proposal to Ayda Field live on radio was a ‘joke’ | Mail Online”
. Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
- Jump up ^ “Robbie Williams: “We are not engaged” – Showbiz News”
. Digital Spy. 28 November 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
- Jump up ^ “Robbie Williams denies engagement”
. BBC News. 28 November 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
- Jump up ^ Sara Nathan, Ben Todd (8 August 2010). “Robbie’s a married man! Take That star ties the knot with Ayda Field at £12m mansion”
. Daily Mail, UK (London). Retrieved 8 August 2010.
- Jump up ^ “Robbie joins the daddy club as wife Ayda welcomes baby Teddy”
. Hello! Magazine. 19 September 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- Jump up ^ “Robbie Williams’ wife has given birth to a daughter”
. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- Jump up ^ PA (23 September 2012). “Proud dad Robbie shows off baby Theodora”
. Essential Baby. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- Jump up ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8VElpUFSfg&feature=youtu.be
- Jump up ^ “Sunday Times Rich List 2009”
. The Sunday Times (London). 26 April 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
- Jump up ^ “Sunday Times Rich List 2011”
. Therichest.org. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
- Jump up ^ “BBC Stoke & Staffordshire – Robbie buys into Vale”
. Retrieved 17 December 2006.
- Jump up ^ “Robbie’s Givin It Sum…”
. BBC. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
- Jump up ^ “Robbie Williams Kicks for Charity”
. Novinite=Sofia News Agency. 23 March 2006.
- Jump up ^ “Donna Louise Trust”
. Donna Louise Trust. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
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. Robbiewilliams.com. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
- Jump up ^ Robbie Williams – Live