Biography
Vocalist, bass guitarist, the author of the songs Glenn Hughes is a real Unicum. No other rock musician has created such a pretty style that combines elements of several genres. Fame Artist brought work with bright teams, it is often referred to as the "Rock's voice". The biography of celebrity is full of dramatic events and amazing meetings.Childhood and youth
Glenn Hughes was born in Cannock, in Staffordshire, August 21, 1952. Parents were religious, so the Son was sent to learn to Sunday Catholic School. Best of all, the boy was given music - he read the notes easily, played on trombone and piano. The game on the guitar, the young man took possession of 6 months, he inspired him by chance that the "Beatles" speech was happened.
Another adolescent hobby was football - from the small years Glenn played himself, participated in the school team and attended most adult sports matches as a fan.
During the years of study, the young man replaced several schools, but still did not finish himself, dreaming primarily about the career of the musician.
Parents supported the initiative of the only child. According to Glenn, nor in youth, nor in a mature age, it has never been required to "find a real job".
Personal life
In Love Hughes, accompanied success: he liked the girls outwardly, was interesting as a companion. The musician often recalls them and shares rare photos in the Instagram account.The first wife of the artist was Karen Ulibarri, the spouses lived together for 10 years, from 1977 to 1987.
In 2000, after a long loneliness, the stars' personal life began again - he married Gabriel Lynn Doton. Spouses have no joint children, but there are many dogs and cats, which both are very loved. Family couple also actively helps animal charitable foundations.
Music
With early British hard rock, "Bitles" music, American coil and R & B Future Rock legend met still in his youth. The first teams in which Glenn took part was HOOKER LEES and THE NEWS. In 1967, Hughes decided to play only on the bass guitar and entered the Finders Keepers group. They performed in clubs in Midlands and recorded one single (Glenn performed backing vocals).
A special team with whom the artist achieved noticeable success and got into the United States, became Trapeze. The whole group released three plates: Trapeze, Medusa and You are the Music ... We Just The Band. It was during the promotion of You Are The Music ... Hughes received a proposal to cooperate from Ian Pace and Richie Blackmore.
So in 1973 the singer joined Deep Purple. From the team at that moment vocalist Ian Gillan and Bass Gitarist Roger Glover. The successfulness of the group confirmed the BURN album released in 1974, which is now considered to be a classic Deep Purple.
Gradually, funk appeared in the repertoire of the team, and then rock. The team, to which Tommy Bolin joined in 1974, participated in the world tour, was recorded in the studio. Nevertheless, participants were increasingly harder to perform together, the cause of which was more abused by drugs and alcohol Tommy Bolin and Glennich Hughes. Scandals flashed repeatedly, and in 1976 David Coverdale was finally left of Deep Purple. Rock band broke up.
Since 1976, Hughes performed sololy, in parallel struggling with narcotic addiction, which he had left for long 15 years. During this time, several albums were released, but mostly the artist performed as a guest guest as a vocalist, bass guitarist and songwriter.
During this period, the musician's discography was replenished with records with Tony Aiomi from Black Sabbath - they worked together over the first solo album of the legendary guitarist (Seventh Star, 1986). Interestingly, it was originally in the record records, Robert Plant, Ronni Dio and Rob Halford were involved, but as a result, Glenn replaced everyone.
Hughes and Iioma became friends, since 1996 they created joint projects, wrote songs. The 1996 DEP Sessions released the release of the 1996 Dep session released in 2004.
Commercial recognition came to the musician in the process of working with the KLF group. It was here that he was assigned the status of "Voice of Rock" for the extraordinary sound of a voice in the international hit single of America What Time Is Love?.
During the 90s, the singer has released a series of solo releases, including the 1997 AdDiction. Then followed experiments over genres. So, the albums Return to Crystal Karma (2000) and Building The Machine (2001) are recorded in the spirit of pop and rock style, and for Songs In The Key Of Rock (2003), the authors drew inspiration in hard rock 70s.
Glenn Hughes now
The musician is now coming to the scene, often happens in Russia. He visits international festivals, goes on tour with solo tours with groups in which once played.So, since 2009, the artist speaks with the Black Country Communion team, performing the compositions of Joe Bonamas. Rock legend cooperates with former participants in Deep Purple: In 2006, together with Joe Lynn Jew, Jew has launched the Made In Moscow project. The plate was recorded and coated in Moscow.
The repertoire of the singer sounds both new songs and famous rock hits of the 70-80 years. Fans with pleasure listen to familiar tracks Getting Tighter, You Keep On Moving, Highway Star and Smoke On The Water in a new version. Another release of celebrities in collaboration with The Dead Daisies should have been released in 2020. The artist believes that the secret of its current success lies in the absence of fear of the microphone and knowledge, how to behave on the stage.
Discography
- 1977 - Play Me Out
- 1992 - L.A. Blues Authority Volume II: Glenn Hughes - Blues
- 1994 - From Now ON ...
- 1995 - Feel.
- 1996 - AdDiction
- 1999 - The Way IT IS
- 2000 - Return of Crystal Karma
- 2000 - a soulful christmas
- 2001 - Building The Machine
- 2003 - Songs In The Key Of Rock
- 2005 - Soul Mover
- 2006 - Music for the Divine
- 2008 - First Underground Nuclear Kitchen
- 2016 - Resonate.