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Glenn Hughes is a British male musician whose career began in 1967. He is associated with genres including hard rock, classic rock, heavy metal, aor, blue-eyed soul, blues rock, and funk. His musical work is linked to the Deep Purple family. Hughes has been recognized in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame collection.
In addition to his musical career, Hughes is an author with 25 recorded works. His top works include *Inherent Human Dignity*, *Broken Lights - a Book of Verse*, *History of the American Theatre, 1700-1950*, *Politics, Order and History*, and *Short plays for modern players*. He maintains an official website and a web feed for news updates.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1951-08-21 ) 21 August 1951 (age 74) , Cannock , Staffordshire , England
- Genres
- Hard rock funk rock blues rock blue-eyed soul heavy metal progressive rock
- Occupations
- Musician singer songwriter producer
- Instruments
- Vocals bass guitar
- Years active
- 1967–present
- Labels
- Frontiers Pony Canyon SPV Yamaha Zero
- Member of
- Black Country Communion
- Formerly of
- Finders Keepers Trapeze Deep Purple Hughes/Thrall Black Sabbath Phenomena Hughes Turner Project Michael Men Project Kings of Chaos California Breed The Dead Daisies
- Website
- glennhughes .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Glenn
- Family name
- Hughes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cannock
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Frontiers Records
- Official website
- glennhughes.com
- Image
- Glenn Hughes, Shepherds Bush Empire, London.jpg
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Commons category
- Glenn Hughes
- date of birth
- 1952-08-21
- different from
- Glenn Hughes
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- social media followers
- 10600
- birth name
- Glenn William Hughes
- name in native language
- Glenn Hughes
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Encyclopedic overview
Glenn Hughes (born 21 August 1951) is an English musician, best known as the bassist and singer in the hard rock band Trapeze and in the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple, as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s. Hughes is renowned for his funk inspired bass playing and his soulful and wide-ranging countertenor vocal range.
Hughes in 2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glenn Hughes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.