Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams is married to Alicia Grimaldi and the couple is blessed with two daughters named Mirabella Bunny Adams and Lula Rosylea.

He is a professional photographer and has done many photoshoots for renowned magazines such as ‘Vogue’, ‘Esquire’, ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ and ‘Interview’. He has also worked in ad-campaigns for big brands like ‘Sand’, ‘Guess Jeans’, ‘Montblanc’, ‘Gaastra’, ‘Zeiss’, ‘John Richmond’ and ‘OPEL’ cars.

He has also published a photographic book named ‘Exposed’ in 2012. The following year, he released another photographic book called ‘Wounded – The Legacy of War’.

He was born to Capt. Conrad J. Adams and Elizabeth Jane (née Watson), on 5th November, 1959, in Kingston, Ontario. He has travelled to Portugal, Vienna and Israel during his early childhood and youth with his parents. He has a brother named Bruce.

When he was in his early teens, he got employed as a dish washer and stock piled his earnings to buy a guitar. He was involved in music and even played for different bands during his teenage. He even dropped out from school in order to pursue a career in music.

He joined the band ‘Sweeney Todd’, as a substitute for their lead singer and in 1976 the band came up with an album ‘If Wishes Were Horses’. He performed many songs with this band for the next one year.

He then was employed by the ‘Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’ (CBC), where he got acquainted with various artists. In 1978, he was introduced to Canadian musician Jim Vallance; Jim had decided to become a musician and songwriter and hence left his previous band.

The same year, he earned a contract with records Company ‘A&M’, and this marked the beginning of Bryan’s professional career in music. He collaborated with Jim Vallance in song writing and some songs written and recorded during this time were ‘I’m Ready’, ‘Remember’, ‘Let Me Take You Dancing’ and ‘Straight from The Heart’.

His album ‘Bryan Adams’ was launched in 1980, and the songs of this album were written by Jim and Bryan, and also co-produced by them. The album which followed was ‘You Want It You Got It’. During the same time he also engaged with other bands in writing songs such as ‘Don’t Let Him Know’, No Way to Treat a Lady’, Teacher Teacher’ and ‘Edge Of A Dream’.

His breakthrough album ‘Cuts Like a Knife’ was released in 1983, with its song ‘Straight from the Heart’ which was among the top 10 songs at the ‘Billboard hot 100’ chart. The album was placed at number eight on ‘Billboard 200’ album list, and was also entitled a platinum record thrice in Canada.

His first major hit was the album ‘Reckless’ which earned him global recognition as an artist. It was placed at number one in the ‘Billboard 200’ album chart and its song ‘Heaven’ became a numero uno in the singles list of many nations. The song also topped the ‘Billboard Hot 100’ list. Another song of the album ‘It’s Only Love’ earned him a ‘Grammy Award’ nomination.

His next successful album was ‘Waking Up the Neighbours’ which remained on the top of the ‘UK Singles Chart’ for sixteen weeks without any disruption. One of its songs ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’ became a topper at the ‘Billboard Hot 100’ chart.