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Bryan Adams

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Also known as Bryan Guy Adams

Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and photographer

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Bryan Guy Adams, born on November 5, 1959, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian and British citizen. He works as a guitarist, bassist, photographer, and composer. Adams performs as a tenor and plays the guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, and piano. His musical output spans rock, alternative rock, roots rock, and soft rock genres. He has recorded for A&M Records, Decca, Polydor, and Verve Records.

Adams has received several awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, the MTV Movie Award for Best Song from a Movie, the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Male, and induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. He has also been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance and the MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography. His notable works include *Ultimate*, *So far so good*, *Wounded The Legacy Of War Photographs*, *American women*, and *The Best of Bryan Adams*. He has three children and resides in Kingston.

Synthesized by Vinony from 46 facts across 10 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Firecrawl, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1959
Works
19

Top works

  • Ultimate
  • So far so good
  • Wounded The Legacy Of War Photographs
  • American women
  • The Best of Bryan Adams

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Film & TV

Acting · Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Bryan Guy Adams is a Canadian singer, guitarist, songwriter, photographer, and activist. One of the world's best-selling artists of all time, Adams has sold 100 million records and singles worldwide. Adams rose to fame in North America with his 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife and turned into a global star with his 1984 album Reckless which produced some of his best known songs including "Run to…

Known for

  • TFI Unplugged — Self (Archive Footage)2026
  • Radio 2 in the Park 2025: Bryan Adams — Himself2025
  • Bryan Adams and Friends: A Great Big Holiday Jam2025
  • Bryan Adams: Live At The Royal Albert Hall2024
  • Hits That Missed at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife Live at the Royal Albert Hall — Self - Vocals, Guitar2023
  • Bryan Adams - Waking Up the Neighbours Live At The Royal Albert Hall — Himself2023
  • Bryan Adams - Into the Fire Live At The Royal Albert Hall2023
  • 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self2021
  • Canadian Hits at the BBC — Self2021

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Canada
Active from
1959
2008 universal fire victimaorcanadianclassic rockhard rockheartland rock

Discography

Member of

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,069,528
Total plays
54,952,802

Tags

rockclassic rock80spopCanadian

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Bryan Guy Adams (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer. He has sold an estimated 75 to more than 100 million records worldwide and is regarded as one of the best-selling music artists. Adams was the most-played artist on Canadian radio during the 2010s and has achieved numerous chart successes in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other countries. Adams released his self-titled debut album, "Bryan Adams", in 1980. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bryan+Adams">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

    · 2010 · cited 23,569x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,887x

  3. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,469x

  4. <i>Phaser</i>crystallographic software

    · 2007 · cited 20,204x

  5. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,787x

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Quotes

  • “My motto has always been “If you love animals, don’t eat them”. ... the moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.”
  • “I bring out an engineer, everything fits into a suitcase and we just record. I have so much spare time during that day that it makes sense to utilize it to do something creative like that, as opposed to just sitting around the hotel and sightseeing or something.”
  • “Give it to me straight from the heart.Tell me we can make one more start.You know I'll never go - as long as I knowIt's comin' straight from the heart.”
  • “Now it cuts like a knife,But it feels so right.”
  • “I'm ready - to love you.I'm ready - to hold you.I'm ready - I'm ready.Ready as I'm gonna be.”
  • “I'm gonna run to you.Yeah - I'm gonna run to you.Cause when the feelin's right, I'm gonna stay all night.”

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Official website

Homepage | Bryan Adams

Official site offers photos, tour dates, merchandise, news.

bryanadams.com →

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Guy
Family name
Adams
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Kingston
Occupation
recording artist
Languages spoken
English language
Award
Bambi Award
Participant in
Live Aid
Genre
hard rock
Instrument
piano
Record label
Universal Music Group
Discography
Bryan Adams discography
Official website
www.bryanadams.com
Image
20130710-ByanAdamsLucca-0019 (9273168286).jpg
Number of children
3
Residence
Kingston
Voice type
tenor
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Commons category
Bryan Adams
date of birth
1959-11-05
topic's main category
Category:Bryan Adams
Commons gallery
Bryan Adams
birth name
Bryan Guy Adams
start of work period
1975-00-00
topic has template
Template:Bryan Adams
name in native language
Bryan Adams
lifestyle
veganism
social media followers
648135
end of work period
2022-00-00
influenced by
The Beatles
Sources (14)

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Encyclopedic overview

Bryan Guy Adams (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide, placing him among the best-selling music artists. Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s and has had 25 top 15 singles in Canada and over a dozen in the U.S., UK, and Australia.

Adams released his eponymous debut album when he was 20 years of age. He rose to fame in North America with the 1983 top ten album Cuts Like a Knife; the album featured its title track and the ballad "Straight from the Heart", which became his first U.S. top-ten hit. His 1984 Canadian and U.S. number one album, Reckless, became the first album by a Canadian to be certified diamond in Canada and made Adams a global star; the album's six charting singles included "Run to You" and "Summer of '69", both top ten hits in the U.S. and Canada, and the power ballad "Heaven", a U.S. number one hit. His 1987 album Into the Fire, with its U.S. and Canadian top ten song, "Heat of the Night", rose to number two in Canada and the top ten in the U.S.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bryan Adams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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