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Bryan Adams (born
Bryan Guy Adams on November 5, 1959) is a Canadian rock
singer-songwriter and photographer. He signed a contract with
American record label A&M Records in the late 70s, he achieved a
string of hit records throughout the world. He has sold in excess of
65 million records.
He has been nominated for several Grammy Awards; Adams was first
nominated at the 28th Grammy Awards for Reckless and "It's Only
Love". Adams won two awards at the 34th Grammy Awards, including
"Best Pop Instrumental Performance" and "Best Song Written for a
Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" for his work on
the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves soundtrack. Adams has been awarded
the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia[4] for his
contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was
also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, in 2006 he was
inducted into the Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards in
April. He was recently nominated for his fifth Golden Globe in 2007
for songwriting on the film Bobby.and has been nominated three times
for Academy Awards for his music in film.
Social activist
Since the 1980s, Bryan Adams has been a noted social activist, to
this day participating in concerts and other activities to help
raise money and/or awareness for a variety of different causes. His
first high profile charity appearance came in 1985 when he opened
the US transmission of Live Aid from Philadelphia. In June of the
next year, Adams participated in the two-week Amnesty International
"A Conspiracy of Hope" tour alongside Sting, U2 and Peter
Gabriel.His next appearance for amnesty was in February 1987 on Rock
For Amnesty with Paul McCartney, Sting and Dire Straits, among
others.
Playing in the U.S. section of Live Aid, Adams did not get the
chance to play at Wembley Stadium; however, another chance came in
June 1987 when Adams played there at the 5th Annual Prince's Trust
Rock Gala along Elton John, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and others.
Adams was to return to Wembley Stadium the following year when he
played at the Nelson Mandela birthday party concert.
Adams helped commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall when, in 1990,
he joined many other guests (including his songwriting partner
Michael Kamen) for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in
Berlin, Germany.
On January 29, 2005, Adams joined the CBC benefit concert in Toronto
for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Twenty years after
performing at Live Aid in the USA, Adams played at Canada's Live 8
show in Barrie, Ontario.[38] Later that year, he played in Qatar and
raised an astonishing £1.5M ($2,617,000) from the performance and
the auction of a guitar he purposely had signed by many of the
world's most prominent guitarists.[38] The money went to Qatar's
"Reach Out to Asia" campaign to help the underprivileged across the
continent.[38] Money raised also went to some of his own projects
like rebuilding a school in Thailand and building a new sports
center in Sri Lanka, both of which had been devastated by the
aforementioned Indian Ocean tsunami.
On January 29, 2006, Adams became the first Western artist to
perform in Karachi, Pakistan, in conjunction with a benefit concert
to raise money for underprivileged children to go to school. Some of
the proceeds of that concert also went to victims of the 2005
Pakistan earthquake.
On October 18, 2007, Adams was billed to perform in Tel Aviv and
Jericho as part of the OneVoice Movement concerts, aiming to solve
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The peace concert for supporters
of a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel was called off
because of security concerns.
In the mid 1990s, Adams successfully campaigned for the Southern
Ocean Whale Sanctuary with Greenpeace Chairman David McTaggart (the
two distributed over 500,000 postcards at concerts around the world
encouraging politicians to vote yes for the creation of the
sanctuary).
Adams wrote a letter on behalf of the animal rights group PETA to
protest KFC's treatment of chickens. He wrote to KFC Canadian CEO in
November 2007 [41] asking them become leaders to use more modern and
more humane methods of killing. Apparently he was also featured as a
nominee for Sexiest Vegetarians of the Year.
On May 25, 2005, Adams raised £1.3M with cousin Johnny Armitage,
from a concert and auction entitled Rock by the River for the Royal
Marsden Hospital in London. On May 15 of the next year, Adams
returned to London to attend the Hope Foundation's event (hosted by
designer Bella Freud), helping to raise a portion of the £250,000 to
support the Palestinian refugee children. The following June, he
offered individuals from the public the chance to bid to sing with
him live in concert at three different charity auctions in London.
Over £50,000 was raised with money going to the NSPCC, Children in
Need, and the University College Hospital. On February 28, 2008 he
appeared in One Night Live at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto,
Canada with Josh Groban, Sarah McLachlan, Jann Arden and Ryan Dan in
aid of the Sunnybrook Hospital Women and Babies Program.
As a photographer
Adams has had his photographs published in British Vogue, L'uomo
Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Interview magazine and
i-D, among others. His other photographic efforts include publishing
Zoo Magazine, the fashion/art magazine based in Berlin, Germany. On
1 June 2005, he published his first book of photos in the United
States with Calvin Klein called American Women; proceeds from this
book go to breast cancer research for programs at the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He released a
similar book of photos called Made In Canada in December 1999
followed by Haven in 2000. All of his books were dedicated to his
friend Donna, who died of the disease.
As a photographer, Adams has worked with many of his musical peers,
including Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Robert Plant, Joss Stone,
Placido Domingo, Celine Dion, Billy Idol, Moby, Amy Winehouse,
t.A.T.u. and Morrissey.
On 27 November 2000 Bryan played onstage with The Who at the Royal
Albert Hall. A DVD of the concert was issued. Bryan photographed the
band and his photos appear in the DVD booklet.
In 2002, Adams was invited, along with other photographers from the
Commonwealth, to photograph Queen Elizabeth II during her Golden
Jubilee; one of the photographs from this session was used as a
Canadian postage stamp in 2004[46] and again in 2005 (see Queen
Elizabeth II definitive stamp (Canada)), another portrait of both
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip is now in the National Portrait
Gallery in London.
On 15 March 2006, Adams was presented with the Gold Award for his
photo editorial on actor Mickey Rourke at the German Lead Awards in
Hamburg, Germany.
In September 2006, a retrospective portfolio of Adams's work was
released by Stern magazine in Germany with a topless photograph of
the singer Pink on the cover.
Bryan Adams supports the Hear the World initiative as official
photographer in its aim to raise global awareness for the topic of
hearing and hearing loss. Adams has been shooting the covers for
their magazine, a quarterly culture and lifestyle publication
dedicated to the topic of hearing.
Photographic exhibitions include:
* Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1999
* McCord Museum, Montreal 2000
* Saatchi Gallery, London 2000
* Photokina, Köln (Cologne), Germany 2001
* ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2004
* Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 2004
* Calvin Klein, NYC, Dallas, Paris 2005
* Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London 2005/2006
* Il Tempio Di Adriano, Rome, Italy, July, 2006
* Photokina, Köln (Cologne), Germany, September, 2006
* Leica Gallery, Vienna, Austria, November, 2006
* Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November, 2006
* H.Stern exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil, March, 2007
* PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain, Fotografos Insospechados (Unsuspected
Photographers) Mickey Rourke photographs, May to July 2007
* Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire, England, May to June, 2007
* 401 Projects, NYC, NY September to November, 2007
* The Hospital, Covent Garden, London, England. November 2007
(Modern Muses)
* The National Portrait Gallery, London, England. Feb - May 2008
(Modern Muses)
* Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany. May 2008 (Photos of the German
National Football Team)
* 14th Street Gallery, NYC, NY. May 2008. (Hear The World)
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