Adam Anderson: Biography, Career, Private Life

Today, let's talk about a wonderful musician of English origin.

Adam Anderson is a keyboardist and guitarist who plays in the famous British duet Hurts, composes music in his spare time. Before the creation of his own group, Adam worked with a group of Daggers, which consisted of five people.

Biography

Adam Anderson was born on May 14, 1984 near the city of Manchester, England. The future singer lived in a country house, in which there were 16 dogs and about 15 hectares of land. The father of the boy worked as a milkman for thirty years, after Adam confesses that he wanted to follow in his footsteps. The actor's grandfather was also a musician and played an instrument such as a banjo (guitar type with a resonator), at times played in the Royal Orchestra.

In addition to Adam, his younger brother grew up in the family. In his interviews, the musician will say to himself that he had a complex character in his childhood, and left the house at the age of fifteen.

Adam Anderson was seriously fond of football and had good prospects, but after a difficult fracture of his leg about the sports career had to forget. The teenager was hard to realize that he could no longer play his favorite sports game.

At the age of 16, the young man was carried away by poetry, he did not yet have much interest in music, but when he bought OK Computer's album from Radiohead, he thought about the scene. At the age of 20, he bought a guitar and a recorder. Having created a couple of trial songs, Anderson realized that he wanted to devote his life to music.

On his 21st birthday, the beginning musician received a piano as a gift, the guy mastered the instrument literally in a week.

His first group, Adam Anderson, co-created with keyboardist Scott Forster, but gave too little time to music, as he studied at the university and worked part-time at the racetrack, where he filmed a race of greyhound dogs.

Creating a Daggers Group

In early 2005, Anderson met Theo Hutchcraft. Together, the guys create their joint Bureau group, but because of the chosen name, the famous English collective Dexys Midnight Runners threatens to sue if Theo does not change the name.

Under the compulsion in 2006, the Bureau was replaced by the Daggers. The collective expanded to five people and made music such as rock, synth-top, new wave, electronics and disco-house.

Over the next two years, the band released two singles:

1. After Midnight, the single held on to the top of the hits on the XFM radio station for a long time.
2. Money / Magazine, was nominated for the Popjustice prize of £ 20 Music Prize, despite the fact that he did not hit the chart.

In September 2008, Adam Anderson, whose photo was captioned on the posters for the performances, brought his team to London to perform in an advertising show. Six months later, the band Daggers notices well-known producer Richard Stannard, who begins to engage in public relations and organization of performances.

January 30, 2009 in the social network MySpace on the official page of the group there is a post, which says about the disintegration of Daggers.

Creating a duet Hurts

After the collapse of the previous team, Theo and Adam create their own band, and three months later the whole world recognizes these guys. There is a sensational clip of Wonderful Life, which will gain millions of views, and after the duo confesses that the shooting of the clip was spent only twenty pounds.

In the list of the most promising groups of the musical company BBC's Sound duo Theo and Adam was in fourth position.

To date, the band has three released studio albums (in parentheses the release date is indicated):

1. Happiness (September 6, 2010) - the album consists of 11 tracks, in the recording of one of the songs was attended by the famous Australian singer Kylie Minogue.
2. Exile (March 11, 2013) - consists of 12 tracks, the title track of the album is a track with the same name. Released under the sound recording label RCARecords.
3. Surrender (2015) is the last, third studio album to date.

Personal life

To date, the musician is not in a relationship, although he is already 33 years old. The only thing the press knows is that Adam Anderson and Emily Rambles met in the period from 2012 to 2015. This all the time the girl worked as a dancer in the band Hurts.

During the relationship, Adam Anderson and Emily rarely appeared in public. According to the latest data, the pair broke up.

Adam Anderson himself does not particularly like to talk about his personal life in the media.

Interesting Facts

Adam very often shares with the press about his tastes and interests.

Once he admitted that he was an ardent fan of the English famous "Manchester United" team, since his childhood his favorite player is Wayne Rooney. If you look closely at some photos of Adam Anderson, then, strangely enough, you can see a great external similarity.

Like all people, Adam likes to listen to music, although he himself is engaged in its creation all his life. The musician is very fond of the work of such performers as Morissy, Pris, Martin Gore. The very first concert that Adam attended was the performance of Arcade Fire in Manchester in 2005.

Awards and nominations of the group

For all the time the duet Hurts, Adam and Theo were nominated for three MTV awards, and two of them submitted to musicians. Also in the list of awards of the group there are fourteen nominations for achievements of the European scale.

In 2010, the German magazine Musikexpress Style Award put Hurts in first place on their list of the best foreign music artists.

In 2011, the guys won in the category "New Best Group", and a year later "Best Video". Also in Germany, the duet was awarded the Shooting-Star television award. The annual Hungarian musical award of 2011 also went to Theo and Adam.

For the sensational song and clip the group received four awards, among them the most significant is the victory in the category "Best foreign song of the year". In addition to all the awards, this composition brought a lot of fame to the team, and the video gained millions of views.

Adam Anderson is one of the brightest representatives of English music, we hope to hear more than one album in his performance in the future.