Gareth Gates

Gareth Paul Gates ( born July 12, 1984 in Bradford, England ) is a British singer who became famous for his participation in the first season of Pop Idol, from which he emerged as the runner-up. In 2007 he released a new album after a three year break.

  • 4.1 Studio albums
  • 4.2 Singles
  • 5.1 Awards
  • 5.2 Records

Life

Gareth Gates was born as the eldest of four children in Bradford. He has three sisters: Nicola ( born 1985 ), Charlotte (* 1991) and Jessica (* 1993). He also grew up together with his cousin (* 1986), who was raised by his family, on. Gates' parents moved regularly to other children.

Gareth Gates joined at the age of nine years, the Bradford Cathedral choir. He was already at the age of 11 years, the main choir in Bradford Cathedral and sang among others solo for the Queen when she visited the cathedral in 1997. Gates reached stage eight at the piano, playing classical guitar and singing. In addition, he was adopted before participating in Pop Idol at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Career

Gates was traded early as a favorite, although he was ultimately only the runner-up of the first season of Pop Idol in February 2002. Though he did not win the competition, he was quickly taken by Simon Cowell's record label BMG contract.

After Pop Idol

Gates ' first single, a cover of The Righteous Brothers ' Unchained Melody, made ​​it immediately topped the UK Singles Chart, and thus kicked Will Young (the winner of Pop Idol ) first single - the double CD Anything is Possible / Evergreen - from the top of the charts. Unchained Melody was elected Record of the Year of 2002 by ITV viewers. His second single, Anyone of Us ( Stupid Mistake ) sold well and also landed at number one. His third single, The Long and Winding Road, a duet with Will Young, also reached number one on the charts. What My Heart Wants to Say, Gates' fourth single, went to number five.

Gates was in 2002 at the height of his career, as the now-defunct magazine Smash Hits November 7, explained to the International Gates Day for his fans.

His debut album What My Heart Wants to Say got into the charts at number two, a sold within the first week more than 100,000 copies and was awarded double platinum.

Gates sang the 2003 Comic Relief charity single Spirit in the Sky with The Kumars. Even this single thought, two weeks at No. 1 on the charts. He was also seen in the Celebrity Driving School of Comic Relief. Through his participation in the Red- Nose- Day ( Comic Relief ) he was involved in Body and Soul, a charity organization that HIV or AIDS -infected people helps.

His next two singles Sunshine and Say It Is not So reached number three or four on the British charts. His second album, Go Your Own Way rose in the UK charts at number 11 one, but got in some Asian countries at number one and was certified platinum there.

Gates had great success outside the UK, particularly in Asia, South Africa and many European countries. He won an MTV Asia's award as Best International Male Artist ( Best International Male) 2003/4 and was awarded by MTV China and MTV Taiwan in the same category.

Say It Is not So, a single from the 2003, which went straight into the charts at number four, to date, is the last single from Gates, which was published in the UK. In early 2004 he makes a stadium tour of the UK and continued his PhD then continued in Europe and Asia. Finally, he decided to take a break and worked as a language teacher and trainer in McGuire Programme, which also helped him to get his language difficulties in the handle.

Gates had a small role in the movie S Club 7 Seeing Double and expanded its work from for charitable purposes. So he tried to strengthen with the help of a charity concert in front of 50,000 people awareness of AIDS.

To date, Gates has sold in the UK alone over five million singles, including the second and sechsthäufigst - selling single of 2002 ( Unchained Melody, which was sold 1.3 million times and Anyone of Us ( Stupid Mistake ), the 570,000 was sold times) and the second most - selling single of 2003 ( Spirit in the Sky, 550,000 times).

Current career

While he was working on his comeback album in 2005, he left in April 2006 by his record label Sony BMG. He was in a documentary called Whatever Happened to Gareth Gates? to see that dealt with his experiences in the music industry and outside it. The documentary was broadcast in December 2006 on ITV1 and confirmed that Gates has a new record deal. They also presented some new material from Gates. His album was released in June 2007. Several of the new songs ( Afterglow, Pictures of the Other Side, Changes, Angel on My Shoulder, New Kid in Town, Lost in You, Can not Believe It's Over and 19 Minutes) were at a secret gig presented on 29 November 2006. Gates worked for this with writers such as Sacha Skarbek ( James Blunt ), Ricky Ross (of Deacon Blue fame ) and Pete Gordeno ( Depeche Mode ) together. The songs were produced by Martin Terefe, Jon Hall and Nick Whitecross.

Since 2004, Gates is working intensively with the singer -songwriter Judie Tzuke (known for their hit 1979 Stay With Me Till Dawn ). They met by Lucie Silvas, who worked for both gates and for Tzuke on backing vocals, know. In October 2004, Gates entered during Tzukes on tour as a background singer for the song bully. The song Dark Days, the Gareth Gates co-wrote with Judie Tzuke, did not appear to Tzukes 2007 album Songs 1, but at the Gates album "Pictures of the Other Side".

The first single from the new album called Changes and was released in the UK on April 9, 2007. Immediately rose to # 14 in the UK Singles Chart. On 18 June 2007 also Angel on My Shoulder was released and debuted at number 22 on the UK Singles Charts. Also in Taiwan Gates is finally successful. His new album (Pictures of the other side ) is currently at number one on the charts and also his single Angel On My Shoulder made ​​it to position one of the charts in Taiwan.

In January 2008, Gareth Gates took part in the British TV show Dancing on Ice.

Since January 2009, Gareth Gates is in London's West End on stage at the Adelphi Theatre in the role of Joseph in the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as the successor to Lee Mead. Presumably he will play this role until the summer. In an interview he said that he has sung the Joseph at the age of eight years and he fulfilled a big dream with this role. Andrew Lloyd Webber is said to have even asked if he would accept the lead role ( BBC interview ).

Private

Gates is a qualified speech coach and latterly Instructor of the McGuire Programme where he those who stutter like he used to, helps. He was the youngest Briton, who trained as a speech coach for this program. In February 2005, he was first with a course and in August 2006, he led a course in Galway finally all alone.

Gates is married to his longtime girlfriend, the dancer, choreographer and model Suzanne Mole since July 18, 2008. On 6 April 2009 they became parents of a daughter.

Gareth Gates himself no longer lives in his hometown of Bradford, but now has an apartment in the city center of London.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Awards and Records

Awards

  • UK The Record of the Year 2002: Unchained Melody
  • Smash Hits Awards 2002: best male, best hair, best newcomer, most fanciable male
  • Smash Hits Awards 2003: best male, best single ( Sunshine)
  • Young Achievers Yorkshire 2002
  • Special award for service to Yorkshire 2002
  • MTV Asia: Best International Male 2003/2004
  • MTV China: Best International Male 2003/2004
  • MTV Taiwan: Best International Male 2003/2004
  • TMF Belgium Best International Pop
  • MTV Taiwan: Inspiration to Youth
  • G -Music (Taiwan): Best International Artist 2003
  • Hit FM: Best single of 2003 ( AOU )

Records

  • He was the youngest male artist who made ​​it into the UK Singles Chart at number 1. He was 17 years and 255 days old when he reached with Unchained Melody on March 24, 2002 1st place.
  • In addition, he was not only had the youngest male solo artist of the four number one hits, but he was also the first since Frank Ifield could place 1965, these four singles within 12 months there.
  • Gates' fans were considered the loudest: During the performance of Mack the Knife in the Sheffield Arena on the Pop Idol tour a sound level of 130 decibels was measured.
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