John Newman

New powerful soul voice of Britain. John Newman to its sumptuous pop got to his knees and Europe, and shakes him also America.

Measured hit parade, concert attendance and unprecedented response last year clearly belonged čtyřiadvacetiletému young man with a flap. With the single Love Me Again and debut album Tribute fired at the top of the charts and received two nominations at the Brit Awards. So resist John Newman is close to the effort to stop the rising level of the great river.

Returns soulful tribute to the Negro and other musical greats turned into a catchy, brass and strings fluffy elegant dance pop. When asked who would pick for new parents, innocently replies: Mick Jagger and Diana Ross. In the opening track of the album then calculates who owes a lot to say for inspiration: Otis Redding, Nina Simone, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Elvis Presley and the list continues.

Newman is a product of the factory X Factor, it did not create the image of a market manager: an ordinary guy with an extraordinary voice from the small town of Settle into the big world of work prozpíval own diligence and due to chance. In London, Leeds and studied music and extra money in the bar, where he met with Piers Aggetem by Rudimental. They became friends, and started working together before we all managed to find one's feet around, Rudimental Newman ruled by the British hit parade song Feel the Love a few months you repeat it with Not Giving In.

Describes his life Newman reporters without frills and humor: bar-fighter from Settle what you love to have fun in the teen until he died in a car accident two friends. My father left them when he was little and the music came through his mother's rich collection of old soulful plates; has added to this the well hip hop, funky and modern electronic issues. I also tells how he first heard on the radio: just sat in the hospital waiting for surgery of benign tumor in the head when he pointed girlfriend that just playing Feel the Love.

The operation was successful, girlfriend but she left him, so as he argues with exaggeration, sat, composed and sung album Tribute. Which confirms the old truism that if you wave the life, soul lets sing of all, and on top adds strength to embark on.

"Every day I currently brings something new and incredible and I would not want it to stop," says the personable Soulman, regarded as the male counterpart of Adele and Amy Winehouse. To which he replies: "No, I'm Amy, I'm John Newman."

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