Biography
Chris Martin is a British musician, frontman and soloist of the Coldplay Rock Group, winner of the Grammy Prize and, to all of the time, the former husband of the Hollywood Star Gwyneth Paltrow.Childhood and youth
Christopher Anthony John Martin was born in March 1977, in one sources - in the exteray, the main city of the County Devonshire, in others - in the village of Uyatstone. Chris turned out to be the firstborn of the five children of the Anthony accountant and the music teacher Alison Martin. In the ancestors of Chris - English Entrepreneur William Willet, author of the idea of translation of watches for winter time.
Children's years, Chris held Exeter Cathedral School in the Preparatory School and at Sherborne School in Dorset. In the latter, he became friends with Philippe Harvey, which will later become a manager of a musical team created by Martin. Sang in church choir.
At the end of these educational institutions, the future musician entered the University College in London to the Faculty of Antique History. Here he mastered Greek and Latin languages and, moreover, got friends who share his musical addictions. Guy Berrimen, Will Champion, Johnny Blakend and Chris merged into the group called Coldplay.
For the passion of Chris, the music was influenced by the A-HA and U-2 teams. Initially, the musician hatched the idea of creating a bat-band and the name came up with - Pectoralz, but as a result, friends stopped on the style of "Alternative Rock" and the already known name.
Music
The debut plate of Safety by and large did not tell anything to critics and ordinary listeners. In the 2000th, Martin Group released the first studio album - Parachutes, which became plastic in Britain seven times and twice in the United States and Canada. The record was awarded the Grammy Award and its British Brit Awards analogue, nominated for Mercury Music Prize.
From other regalia of the album - 12th place in the list of 20 of the most sold in the UK Albums of the XXI century, 25th - in the hundred the greatest albums of all time in the opinion of Channel 4. None surprising, despite the dizzying success, the Coldplay frontman said that the album I did not like the group.
Although it is known that Chris like the work of its own team called "Glass of Water" and the title song of the album "A Head Full of Dreams". By the way, in the promotional single of the latter, called Everglow, sounded back-vocals performed by Gwyneth Paltrow.
The group took another 8 times awarded the Grammy Prize for songs from Albums X & Y, Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends, Mylo Xyloto. They fell into rotations and occupied high places in the charts and clips for individual songs.
The solo page in the biography of the singer was no less successful. Cooperation with the musician can be proud of the most diverse colleagues - Nelly Furtado and Ji Zi, Ron Secission and Kanye West, Jamelia and Yen McCullock. For the solo career, Chris Martin recorded 9 albums, in which the singer participated as co-author of compositions and producer. And after working with Rihan Briton, he stated that he simply didn't want to sing with anyone else.
Personal life
The list of brutal romance brutal rocker can be envied. In the first place - the star of Hollywood, Oskarone Gwyneth Paltrow. But if the singer frankly spoke about the thirst for glory and success, then in conversations about the family immediately closed. Moreover, a recognizable face for the press, in general, a wife and daughter did.
With actress, Chris met in 2002 at his own concert. A year later, Gwyneth became his wife Martin, the couple's wedding played secretly, inviting only the closest relatives. Children were born in marriage - the daughter of Apple Blytch Alison, which appeared in London, and the son of Moses Bruce Anthony, who was born in New York. Eppl's godfathers are British comedian Simon Pegg and Colleague on Coldplay Johnny Blakend.
After 12 years of shared life and a two-year-old-timberized process, Chris and Gwyneth still broke up, but they retained good relationships. As Martin said, they did nothing to the public, and the journalists may think about relations in the family. As if confirming the words "there is friendship after the divorce", the network appeared joint and quite friendly photos of Chris with the new beloved Paltrow - Brad Falchak.
Yellow press suspected Martin in delicate feelings for Kylie Minogue and Kate Hudson. However, the actress Paparazzi managed to catch the musician only on the beach and with children. Chris's singer was caught on a walk during the British Summer Time Festival festival. The official representative told that Australian and Briton were friends long ago, and one came to support the other during the performance.
Chris's relationship with another movie actor - Jennifer Lawrence seemed serious. The musician dedicated the girl the song "Atlas", which became a soundtrack for the picture "Hungry Games. And flames will flash. The couple parted and converged again, long called the relationship with friendly either simply dismissed.
However, according to rumors, the development of the novel was opposed to the mother of the actress. The woman considered that the daughter's boyar spends a lot of time with a former family. In addition, Mother Jennifer still sympathized with the former boyfriend actress Nicholas Holt. Blonde in the end and returned.
Then the singer switched to Annabelle Wallis, the actress of the series "Tudors" and the film "Mummy". Friends of the musician noted that Chris specially searched for a girl a cheerful, sociable and easy to rise, which would be distinguished from too serious Gwyneth. Follovers noticed some pattern. Not only is the physical similarity between Annabel and Gwyneth, the Wallis appeared in the "instagram" photo, plotted with images from the page of the former Martin wife.
At the same time, Chris was smelled with the singers of Dua Lipoy and Katy Perry. With a girl from Kosovo, the British performer worked on the song from her first album. The second paparazzi was caught up with a ColdPlay soloist at the festival in Glastonbury.
In 2016, omnipresent journalists caught Martin at a night party with singer Rita Ore. The conclusion about the new novel asked himself by itself when the celebrity was found overlooking the same hotel where Chris lived.
In case of her husband, Gwyneth Paltrow Martin preferent with vegetarianism. However, cooking musician does not know how. Hollywood celebrity told that when Chris went into the kitchen, a fire truck arrived attentively.
Chris is a non-standard rocker, since he has no thrust for tobacco, drugs and drinking. Among the musical addictions of the singer are "nightswimming" team R.E.M., the Scottish group Travis, "Bitter Sweet Symphony" from The Verve. The vocalist of this group is a favorite performer of the Coldplay leader.
The musician participates in charitable projects. In particular, it buys expensive works of art, the means of selling which go to special assistance funds. Martin also wrote a composition for the Band AID group created specifically to collect money to the starving children of Ethiopia. Chris presented his first guitar at the auction, the funds from which were transferred to the organization to help children from poor families.
Chris Martin now
In July 2017, Forbes published a list of richest European celebrities. The ColdPlay group was in third place, earning $ 88 million for the year.
Charming, blue-eyed, high (the growth of the musician - 186 cm) The singer is not deprived of female attention.
At the end of 2017, he received a confirmation of the next Roman Chris, this time with Dakota Johnson, his daughter of notorious Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. The actress and model are known on the film "Fifty shades of gray". The girl has already managed to introduce her beloved with his father. The star "Police Miami" is somewhat concerned that his daughter's relationship is developing too quickly.
Discography
- 2000 - "Parachutes" (as part of COLDPLAY)
- 2002 - "A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD" (as part of COLDPLAY)
- 2003 - "Sliding"
- 2004 - "Gravity"
- 2005 - "X & Y" (as part of COLDPLAY)
- 2006 - "All Good Things (Come to An End)" (co-author)
- 2007 - "Homecoming" (co-author)
- 2011 - "MYLOXYLOTO" (as part of COLDPLAY)
- 2014 - "Ghost Stories" (as part of COLDPLAY)
- 2015 - "A Head Full Of Dreams" (as part of COLDPLAY)