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Bryan Guy Adams, OC, OBC (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and photographer./nAdams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 18 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, including wins for Best Male Artist in 2000 and Male Vocalist of the Year in 1997 and every year from 1983 to 1987, as well as Junos for Producer, Composer, and Songwriter of the Year. He has also had 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television for \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\" in 1992. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, and American Music awards. In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for songwriting. Adams is the best-selling Canadian male artist ever. Adams has sold 75 million albums and 30 million singles worldwide. Adams also holds the distinction of being the first Canadian to sell more than 1 million copies in Canada. He has achieved this twice./nAdams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world. He is a well known photographer./nAdams was inducted into Canada\'s Walk of Fame in 1998, and in April 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Canada\'s Juno Awards. At the 2010 Juno Awards in Newfoundland, he will be on hand to receive a humanitarian award./nAdams is commonly associated with the Arena Rock genre. Adams is sometimes labelled as a Pop-Rock musician. Adams performs Rock songs, Ballads and Mid-tempo tracks. He has released studio albums, the most recent being 11. \"11\" was his first Acoustic-rock release. His biggest hits : \"Summer Of \'69\", \"Run To You\", \"It\'s Only Love\" , \"Cant Stop This Thing\" and \"The Only Thing\" have all become rock radio staples and are among the songs that are the most played in the history of Canadian Radio./nThe first single released by Adams was \"Let Me Take You Dancin\'\", it was a disco record. The only one Adams has recorded till date./nEarly years/nAdams was born in Kingston, Ontario, to English parents. From his grandmother he also inherited a Maltese ancestry. As Adams\'s father was a diplomat, he grew up travelling around the world with his parents. Subsequently, most of his youth was spent growing up in England, Israel, Portugal, and Austria, part of the time in Birre, Portugal, situated close to Lisbon; where he learned Portuguese. In 1973, Adams\'s family returned to Canada and settled down in North Vancouver, British Columbia. His musical goals began during his teenage years, and as he explained to Carlo D\'Agostino from Rolling Stone magazine, \"In high school, I was too far into my music to even pay attention to girls.\" He washed dishes, sold pet food, and worked in record stores, and at the age of 15, Adams quit school to play in nightclubs with bands like Shock and Sweeney Todd, who released an album called If Wishes Were Horses with the fifteen year old Adams as lead singer./nA serendipitous meeting with drummer Jim Vallance in a Vancouver music store led to a song-writing partnership that continues to this day.[when? They wrote songs for many other artists notably Kiss, Prism, Bonnie Raitt, Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, Carly Simon, and Loverboy to name a few. Adams and Vallance were both disenchanted with the club scene and both worked in Vancouver studios doing sessions./nIn 1978, at the age of 18, Adams sent a few demo recordings to A&M Records in Toronto. Not long afterwards he signed with them for the sum of one dollar. Some of the first demos written in 1978 have surfaced over the years, most notably \"I\'m Ready\" (recorded for both the album Cuts Like a Knife and later his release for MTV Unplugged) and \"Remember\", which was recorded on his first album. Both songs were covered by other artists even before his first album was released. Also recorded during this time was Adams\'s first single, \"Let Me Take You Dancing,\" which made the Canadian RPM chart in March 1979. 1980s/nHis self-titled debut album was released in February 1980, and marked the beginning of what was to become a long songwriting partnership between Adams and co-writer Jim Vallance. With the exception of \"Remember\" and \"Wastin\' Time\", most of the album was recorded from October 29 up until November 29, 1979 at Manta Studios in Toronto and co-produced by Adams and Vallance. The album was certified gold in Canada in 1986./nAdams\'s second album, You Want It You Got It, was recorded in New York City in two weeks and it marked Adams\'s first album co-produced by Bob Clearmountain. It was released in 1981 and contained the FM radio hit \"Lonely Nights,\" but it was not until his third album that he achieved international recognition, popularity and sales./nAdams also co-wrote many songs for other bands during this time including \"War Machine\" and \"Rock and Roll Hell\" for Kiss, and \"No Way To Treat A Lady\" for Bonnie Raitt./nCuts Like a Knife, which was released in January 1983, was Adams\'s breakout album due mainly to the lead singles. \"Straight from the Heart\" was the most successful song, reaching number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Another single, \"Cuts Like a Knife\" charted at number fifteen. \"This Time\" also placed on the Hot 100. Music videos were released for four of the singles from the album. \"Cuts Like a Knife\" arguably became Adams\'s most recognizable and popular song from the album. Its music video received heavy airplay on music television channels. The album peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 album chart and achieved three times platinum status in Canada, platinum in the United States and gold in Australia./nAdams\'s best-selling album, Reckless co-produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain, peaked at number one on the Billboard 200. The album was released in November 1984 and featured the singles, \"Run to You\", and \"Summer of \'69\". The hit single with Tina Turner \"It\'s Only Love\" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. In 1986, the song won an MTV award for Best Stage Performance. After the release of the album, Adams was nominated for Best Male Rock Performance. The album is Adams best-selling album in the United States and was certified five times platinum./nReckless included the hit singles \"Run to You\", \"Heaven\", \"Summer of \'69\", \"One Night Love Affair\", and \"It\'s Only Love\", a duet with Tina Turner. All the singles had accompanying music videos and all charted on the Billboard Hot 100 but only \"Run to You\", \"Summer of \'69\", and \"Heaven\" peaked in the top ten. \"Heaven\" would become the most successful single from Reckless at the time of its release on the pop charts, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on the mainstream rock chart./nIn December 1984, Adams and his touring band which consisted of Keith Scott, Dave Taylor, Pat Steward and Johnny Blitz played concerts in Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia.In early 1985, Adams started a tour throughout the United States, then later Japan, Australia, Europe and at last Canada. After winning four Juno Awards, Adams started a Canadian tour through major cities across that country. Later he headed south towards the American West Coast, culminating with two dates at the studded Paladium in Los Angeles./nAfter the tour in the United States, Adams traveled to Ethiopia to aid famine relief in the country. Adams was also part of a grand ensemble of Canadian artists named Northern Lights, who recorded the song \"Tears Are Not Enough\" for the African famine relief effort. Adams later headed back to Europe for a fifty-city concert tour with rock singer Tina Turner, culminating in April with his return to London to headline three sold-out shows at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. Adams began the first leg of his tour entitled \"World Wide in 85\" which started in Oklahoma and ended in October 1985. Adams would later visit Vancouver, Canada, and afterward returned to the American East Coast to play two sold-out concerts in New York./nThe follow up album to Reckless was Into the Fire which was released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). The album was recorded at Cliffhanger Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia and mixed at AIR Studios in London and Warehouse Studio in Vancouver. This album contained the hit songs \"Heat Of The Night\" and \"Hearts On Fire\" and hit the Top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic.

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