James Blunt is an English performer and composer. His composition became the soundtrack for the film "PS I love you." The musician managed to succeed in the military field.
The concepts of creative and military career are very far from each other. However, some talented individuals manage to succeed on both roads. These people include the British James Hillier Blount (Blunt).
Path selection
The future musician was born in the military hospital located in the English city of Tidworth in Wiltshire on February 22, 1974. The father of the future celebrity was a hereditary military officer in the army aviation corps.
The family often had to change their place of residence along with new appointments of the head. James in a short time managed to visit Germany and Cyprus, on the territory of military bases.
The boy woke up to music from early childhood. His mother managed to persuade her husband to hire a piano teacher for the child so that the boy would be distracted from the depressions caused by continuous moving.
Later, however, the father changed his mind. He gave his son to Harrow's private boarding school, so that his studies distracted James from music. However, it turned out exactly the opposite.
It was at Harrow that Blunt Jr. began to learn to play the guitar and wrote the first songs under the influence of idols Kurt Cobain and Freddie Mercury.
In 1990, James became a student at one of the country's most prestigious universities, the University of Bristol. In the "red brick" institution, he studied sociology and aerospace construction.
Military career
Blunt rarely attended classes. Usually during the lectures he slept in the last row. The guy suffered only because of his father, as the army entered as a sponsor of the faculty.
However, the student passed the exams very well and defended his bachelor's degree well, presenting a dissertation in sociology. After receiving education, the future famous musician had to serve several years.
Data is diverging. One service lasted four years, while others insist on six. Immediately the young man was sent to the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.
In 1999, Blunt, the commander of the tank unit, had to participate in an armed conflict. The troops of the British Empire abandoned on the territory of Yugoslavia.
All the time, James did not part with the guitar, tying it outside the tank. Then he wrote the song "Without courage." Blunt became the champion of alpine skiing of the Royal Armored Corps. The future musician said goodbye to the army service forever in 2002.
Conquering musical peaks
His father was not at all happy with this choice. Then the young man collected all the demo recordings made by him on one disc and sent it to the music manager and producer of Elton John Tom Rothrock. He appreciated the package.
He liked James' musical abilities and vocals. The aspiring musician ended up at Linda Perry's Custard Records recording studio, working with Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera. With the recognized most successful label of the country, cooperation does not stop to this day.
In 2003, Rothrock and Blunt went to America. James performed in local clubs, while recording songs for his debut album. The disc "Back to Bedlam" was released the following year in early October. His compositions immediately became recognized leaders of all the charts.
The musician gained fans. True, they had a lot of problems. So, once because of the admirers of their idol, her owner drove out of his rented apartment. In 2007, the world saw the second album "All the Lost Souls" ("Lost Souls"). Four days after graduation, it became gold.
Blunt's song became the soundtrack in the film adaptation of Cecilia Ahern's PS I Love You. The film was directed by Richard Langrevenese, famous for his work "Bridges of Madison County" and "Erin Brockovich."
The main characters of the picture were played by Gerard Butler, known for “The Phantom of the Opera”, “Three Hundred Spartans”, “Law-abiding Citizen”, and Hilary Swank, actress “Insomnia”, “Good Luck Logan” and “Million Dollar Baby”.
The film starred Katie Bates, who played in American Horror Story, Lisa Kudrow from Friends, Neighbors. On the Warpath, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, popular after Supernatural.
Before the release of the third disc, "Some kind of trouble", an acoustic performance was performed. July 29, 2013 he passed on board the flying Boeing 767. October 18, 2013 released the next album of the musician "Moon Landing".
