About James Blunt:

James Blunt (born James Blunt 22 February 1974) is an English singer/songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases — especially the numeral unwed hit "You're Beautiful" — brought him to fame in 2005. His class is a mingle of burst, stone and people. Along with vocals, Blunt plays a spacious diversity of instruments including the piano, guitar, device, marimba, and mellotron. James Blunt's music continues to get a hybrid greet with acute divides between those who heat and those who detest his music. Such is the be averse to representing him amongst some Brits that his designation has worked its manner into up to date daytime cockney rhyming slang.

Blunt was cultivated at Elstree School, Woolhampton, then Harrow School (where he received his darling name Blunty'), and at hindmost the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Before the let go of his album, Blunt was a commissioned authorized in the British Army, rose to the eminence of Captain and served as a NATO peacekeeper in Kosovo. He was also on accountability championing the obsequies of the Queen Mother on 9th April, 2002.

He is currently signed to Linda Perry's American identification Custard, and became the first British artist to summit the American singles ocean-map in almost a decade when his important separate from Back to Bedlam, "You're Beautiful", reached integer lone on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006. The rearmost British artist to do so had been Elton John in 1997 with the melody Candle in the Wind.

His succeeding album, All The Lost Souls, was released on 17th September 2007.