Example (musician)
Example ( born June 20, 1982 in Hammersmith, London, Elliot John Gleave real name ) is a British rapper and singer.
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Biography
Artist Name
His stage name Example created by the acronym of his name EG ( Elliot Gleave ), which in the English language example ( for example) means.
Life
Elliot Gleave was born in 1982 in Hammersmith and was the elder of two children. He attended All Saints Primary School in Fulham. He later went to the ADT College.
In 2000, Elliot attended Royal Holloway - University of London to study film directing. During his studies he began to make music as MC. During this time he met Joseph Gardner AKA Rusher, the producer with whom he still works today together. Gleave and Gardner created a concept album in the audio department of the university. One of these songs was, for example, Examples first white label vinyl release A Pointless Song.
After graduating in 2003 Gleave worked for a year in Australia in the props departments of films like Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. He returned to England and became a voice-over artist and editor for the Paramount Comedy Channel (now Comedy Central ). He also worked as an editor at MTV Networks.
Today he visited the Ashcroft Technology Academy in Wandsworth. Gleave said during an interview that he is acting on the basis of his introduction to the field of music hip hop through albums by Wu -Tang Clan and Snoop Dogg, now also in the area of rape.
Career
2004-2008: record deal and What We Made
After the release of three singles on his own label, All The Chats, including the original 7 "version of I Do not Want To in January 2006, he received attention from Pete Tong, Zane Lowe and other DJs of the British radio station BBC Radio 1. Likewise showed employees of four record companies keen interest in Example.
After signing a contract in April 2006 with the record label, Beats, he published entitled Vile his answer to Lily Allen's number -one hit Smile, who was at that time one of the most performed songs on BBC Radio 1.
His first "real" release on the record label was Beats What We Made in November 2006, the video is about the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine. It was the harbinger of his eponymous album What We Made.
In September 2007, then appeared Examples debut album What We Made, which was supposed to appear in June 2007. Examples second official Beats single was released in March 2007. It bears the title You Can not Rap, followed by a re-release of I Do not Want To on June 11, 2007. His third single, So Many Roads, a cover of the song We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters was his last single that appeared on the label beats that went bust and the end of 2007.
After which beats finally parted, published his next Example single " Me Mandy " on 10 March 2008 itself, on his own label, All The chats. The video for " Me Mandy " was a total of 4 days and nights turned into London, it plays in over 30 locations with over 40 extras. This was taken by Henry Scholfield Examples friend who was also a director for his music videos from Vile, You Can not rap and I Do not Want To.
In February 2008, Example started temporarily as part of stand- up comedy, The Culture Show episode of the British radio station BBC 2. He was supervised while the English comedian Richard Herring. Here he spent 6 weeks and practiced it for his own stand-up career, which he had first appearance in front of numerous spectators at Covent Garden Pub in London. A week later he stepped on, inter alia, Richard Herring, Phill Jupitus and Harry Hill at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, where he is already ten years ago, while he studied at the University of ADT, occurred.
2009-2010: Will not Go Quietly
In September 2009, he had his first chart success with the song Watch the Sun Come Up. The song was released as a harbinger of his second studio album Will not Go Quietly, released on the record label Data Records. The single debuted at number 20 of the UK Singles Charts and got the following week up to number 19, the single Will not Go Quietly, was published on 17 January 2010. It reached number 6 in the UK and became the Examples first top 10 hit. In Ireland, this song was back in the charts. He was ranked 36th in April 2010, he announced that the album Will not Go Quietly will be published on 21 June 2010. In addition, he has published 13 June 2010 the song Kickstarts as a single. With this song he had on 13 April, on the radio station BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, thanks to his radio debut. Kickstarts was produced by Sub Focus and rose in the UK # 3 on the charts. The following week the album Will not Go Quietly, the debürte at # 4 in the UK album charts appeared. The fourth single from his album was released on September 12, 2010 Last Ones Standing, with whom he grew up in Ireland at number 27 of the United Kingdom and rank 37. On 14 November 2010, he released the last single from the album. It is entitled Two Lives, but only reached number 84 of the UK Singles Charts.
2011-2012: Playing in the Shadows
In June 2011, the song Changed the Way You Kiss Me appeared as an announcement of his album Playing in the Shadows as a single. The song climbed to the top of the UK charts and became his biggest success to date. Changed the Way You Kiss Me reached the top 10 in many European countries and was able to reach platinum status in Australia. The second single of the album was Stay Awake. The song was produced by Nero and this single was released on August 28, 2011. Too stig to number one in the UK charts. His third single release was called Midnight Run. It was published in December 2011 and reached number 30 in the UK Singles Chart. In September 2011, his third studio album Playing in the Shadows was released. The album debuted at number one in the UK album charts, and was in many other countries such as Australia, Ireland or New Zealand a great success.
2012 - today: The Evolution of Man
In spring 2012, the song was released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland kickstarts as a re- release, which was produced by the Swiss House DJ DJ Antoine and also contributed his remix of this single. Through this re-release Example could also join in the German and Austrian charts.
He also wrote the song Chasing the Sun for the boy band The Wanted, 2012. The track was released as a single in April 2012 in the U.S. and in May 2012 in the United Kingdom, with remixes by Hardwell and Tantrum Desire and reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and was very successful in other countries. In January 2012, Example has signed a U.S. recording contract with the record label Mercury, a sub-label of Universal Music. He hopes that his next album to get in the USA recognition. On August 17, 2012, the tour dates of 2013 were announced. It is planned that the 12 -date tour will begin on February 11, 2013 in Bournemouth and ending in Manchester on March 1, 2013 Arena. He gets support from the British dubstep producer Benga, who also produced Examples album track Come Taste the Rainbow.
The single Say Nothing was published in September 2012 and debuted at # 2 on the UK charts.
Discography
Studio albums
Filmography
During the filming of his promotional video for his track What We Made in the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, Example also filmed an 18 -minute documentary film in the ghost towns, deserted schools, hotels and amusement parks he visited. Many of the buildings have been preserved as they have done before the disaster. He said: " I believe that anyone who has been here before, never will be for nuclear energy " and looked around at empty cots, baby gas masks and in a decaying classroom near Chernobyl. " I recently read something about how we would survive such a nuclear disaster, but you just think: Why do you want to risk something like that if you could consider what happen "