 | Bryan Adams |
Bryan Guy Adams OC OBC FRPS (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian guitarist, singer, composer, and photographer. Adams has been cited as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and is estimated to have sold between 75 million[2] and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide.[3][4][5] Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s[6] and has had 25 top-15 singles in Canada and a dozen or more in each of the US, UK, and Australia.
In 2008, Adams was ranked 38th on the list of all-time top artists on the Billboard Hot 100.[13] Adams has won 20 Juno Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television amongst 15 Grammy nominations, and has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and three Academy Awards for his songwriting for films.[14] Adams has been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Canada's Walk of Fame, the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame,[15][16] the Canadian Music Hall of Fame[17] and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.[4] On May 1, 2010, Adams received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.[18]