Josh Groban
Josh Groban: full name Joshua Winslow Groban was born in Los Angles, California on February 27th 1981. He is the son of a Jewish American Father and a Norwegian American Mother. He is best known for his strong classical baritone singing voice and his appearance on the TV show Ally McBeal.
After realizing his talent as a singer from a very young age Josh enrolled in the Interlochen Arts Camp and began to perform in school musicals and plays, his love of this also prompted him to take on singing lessons in his spare time. His vocal coach soon introduced him to a number of influential people in the music business and eventually Josh was offered a recording contract with Warner Brothers Records. His style of singing was versatile, ranging from classical to pop making him a great artist to work with.
He was lucky enough to perform with British singer Sarah Brightman on her 2000-2001 ‘La Luna’ tour and was even featured on the DVD of the show. Josh also regularly performed at various different charity and benefit events around the world and at ‘The family celebration’ event in 2001 he was introduced to David E Kelley who was so impressed by his voice he hired him to appear in his hit TV show at the time ‘Ally McBeal’. Josh played the role of Malcolm Wyatt and wowed viewers with his stunning performance of the song ‘You’re still you’ emails came flooding in begging to see Josh Groban on the show again so he was brought back the following season to perform ‘to where you are’.
His growing popularity was evident when he released his self titled debut album ‘Josh Groban’ in 2001 and it went from gold to double platinum in the space of just a year.
Josh performed alongside British classical singer Charlotte Church at the winter Olympics in February 2002 singing ‘The Prayer’ and later went on to perform at The Vatican, Rome in a special event alongside stars such as Lionel Richie, Sting and Ronan Keating.
In 2003 Josh Groban’s second album was released titled ‘Closer’ and he hoped to give fans more of an insight into his personality, it went in at number 11 on the Billboard Charts but quickly rose to number one with his cover version of the hit ‘You raise me up’ proving to be extremely popular with his older fans.
Josh has featured in several movie soundtracks over the past few years including ‘Troy’ and the animated hit ‘The Polar Express’.
In November 2004 Josh Groban released his second DVD titled ‘Live at the Greek’ and was also nominated for a string of awards that same year including an American Music Award and a Grammy. His latest single ‘You are Loved’ was released in September 2006 exclusively to AOL’s first listen. The song was taken from his third album ‘Awake’ which was released on November 7th 2006. Josh is also planning several new ventures for 2007 including a world tour where you can get a taste of this talented young musician’s music for yourself.
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