Charlie Winston

Charlie Winston ( born September 14, 1978 in Cornwall, England; actually Charlie Winston Gleave ) is a British singer-songwriter.

Life and work

Charlie Winston comes from a musical family. The parents were in the 1960s and 1970s as a musician on the road, before they settled in East Anglia, Suffolk and Bungay opened the King's Head Hotel. Winston's older brother Tom Baxter is a successful singer since 2004 and together with her sister Vashti Anna, they were standing together on stage.

At the age of eight years, Charlie Winston learned to play the drums and then the piano. During this time he was also active in a teen band called Body Clock. At 17 he went to London on a music high school, where he studied jazz piano among others. He wrote music for two dance companies and performed at, among others, as the bass guitarist with his brother and with the National Youth Reggae ensemble. There was a time in India, in which he dealt with Indian music before he returned and worked as a musician and composer for film and theater.

He first reached more attention than he for a car commercial a cover version of I'm a Man The Spencer Davis Group grossed. In the video, the song of a dog was placed in the mouth, whereupon complained animal friends and the spot was withdrawn.

In 2006, he met with Peter Gabriel together, signed with the label and joined a year later on Gabriel's European tour as support to. In the same year he recorded his debut album, Make Way. It was followed by other performances, many of them in Germany and France. There are also collaborating with the label ATMOSPHERIQUES came about, especially with Mark Plati, who had already produced for many well-known artists. In Paris and London in 2008 was the album Hobo.

With his song Like a Hobo Winston appeared in France in the music show Taratata on, and the song was in the opening credits of the talk show Le Grand Journal. Then arose such a large demand for the song that both single and album in France, Belgium and Switzerland appeared on the charts. After single and album in France had conquered # 1 on the charts, the song was released successfully in Germany and Austria.

In 2010 he was awarded with the European Border Breakers Award ( EBBA ).

In 2011, published in France album Running silently walked there at # 5 in the album charts. In Germany it came out in February of 2012. Several radio stations, including the HR3 and Germany radio culture made ​​it the " album of the week ". The songs attributable musical styles - from old school hip hop to danceable Sixties Soul - move from one piece to the next, so that reviewers say it would hardly classify a single style.

Winston is in his own words in an interview with the French telecom company SFR by a Jacques Brel Inspired. He lives in Paris.

Discography

Albums

  • Charlie Winston ( Baxter) (6 track EP, 2005)
  • Make Way (2007)
  • Mischifus (2007)
  • European Tour 2007 (2008)
  • Hobo (2009)
  • Running Still ( 2012 EN, 2011 F, 2011 UK )

Singles

  • I'm a Man (2008)
  • Like a Hobo (2009)
  • In Your Hands (2009)
  • Kick the Bucket (2009)
List of number-one hits of 2009 (France) Hessischer Rundfunk Myspace Integrated Authority File
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