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Christopher Anton Rea (born 4 March 1951), known professionally as Chris Rea, is an English rock and blues singer and guitarist from Middlesbrough.
He is known for his distinctive, husky singing and slide guitar playing, with the Guinness Rockopedia describing him as a “gravel-voiced guitar stalwart”. After learning to play the guitar relatively late, a short burst of local band activity led to his launching a solo career in 1978.
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Louder magazine calls Rea “rock’s ultimate survivor”, given his recovery from several bouts of serious illness. He has produced 25 solo albums, with several from his later blues period – such as Blue Guitars (2005) – having multiple discs.
British Hit Singles & Albums says that Rea was “one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s” and “already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with the release of the (1989) single “The Road to Hell (Part 2)…” his 18th chart entry.”
Two of his most successful studio albums, The Road to Hell (1989) and Auberge (1991), topped the UK Albums Chart.
Chris Rea was nominated three times for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: in 1988, 1989 and 1990.
Rea has never toured the United States, where he is best known for the 1978 single “Fool (If You Think It’s Over),” which reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. This success earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1978. A decade later, Working On It topped the Mainstream Rock chart.
His discography includes 25 studio albums, 14 compilation albums, 1 live album, 1 soundtrack album, and 72 singles – including 32 UK top 75 hit singles. He has fourteen UK top 20 albums, nine of them in the Top 10, including two No. 1s. Rea has sold more than 30 million records worldwide.
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