Adams elected to sing until they found a singer, but they never found one, and his auditioning landed him a few jobs, with bands like Shock and Sweeney Todd, who in 1976 released If Wishes Were Horses with the 15-year-old Adams as the singer. He quit the job after a year and started auditioning as a guitarist while rehearsing his own band in his mother's rented basement in North Vancouver. After his parents divorce, in 1973 Adams and his mother returned to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia.įrom the ages of 14–18, Adams worked as a dishwasher to save money for a proper guitar. He traveled through the United Kingdom, and the Middle East, and spent more than four years in Lisbon, Portugal and a year in Vienna, Austria. Adams grew up traveling around the world with his parents, with his father's diplomatic postings in Europe and the Middle East.
Originally in the British Army, Adams' father joined the Canadian Army, followed by a stint with the United Nations as a peace keeping observer, and finally as a Canadian diplomat. From his grandmother, he also inherited Maltese ancestry. Īdams was born in Kingston, Ontario, to British parents who had emigrated from England in the 1950s. On 13 January 2010, he received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for his part in numerous charitable concerts and campaigns during his career, and on was given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts. In 2008, Bryan was ranked 38 on the list of All-Time top artists by the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. Īdams was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with the 2,435th star in March 2011 and Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, and in April 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards. In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards for song composition and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films.Īdams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, and American Music awards. For his contributions to music, Adams has many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992.
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1994.Template:Other people Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox musical artistīryan Adams, Template:Post-nominals (born Bryan Guy Adams 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. The last time an album had such a strong showing was in 1978, when Bee Gees recordings from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack were in positions 2, 4, and 6.
Ace of Base's album The Sign had three songs in the top ten: " The Sign", " All That She Wants", and " Don't Turn Around".