His 1987 album Into the Fire, with its US and Canadian top ten song, " Heat of the Night", rose to number two in Canada and the top ten in the US and several other countries. His 1984 Canadian and US number one album, Reckless (which became the first album by a Canadian to be certified diamond in Canada), made him a global star with six charting singles including " Run to You" and " Summer of '69", both top ten hits in the US and Canada, and the power ballad " Heaven", a US number one hit. He rose to fame in North America with the 1983 top ten album Cuts Like a Knife, featuring its title track and the ballad " Straight From the Heart", his first US top ten hit. Īdams joined his first band at age 15, and at age 20 his eponymous debut album was released. Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s and has had 25 top-15 singles in Canada and a dozen or more in each of the US, UK, and Australia. He has been cited as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide. Bryan Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for his contributions to popular music and philanthropic work through his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world.Bryan Guy Adams OC OBC FRPS (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and photographer. He released three more albums since then, "MTV Unplugged" (1997), "On a Day Like Today" (1998) and most recently the songs for the DreamWorks animated movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) in which Adams earned his second Golden Globe nomination for "Best Song". "I Finally Found Someone" became a top ten single and won Adams his third Academy Award nomination. Later that year, he wrote and sang the single "I Finally Found Someone", a duet with Barbra Streisand for her movie, The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). In 1996, Adams released the album "18 Til I Die", which has garnered him another two Grammy nominations. He became one of two non-American singers to have four number one hits and the most successful Canadian singer ever. He released the single "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" from the movie Don Juan DeMarco (1994), which became his fourth #1 single and his second Academy Award nomination. That same year, he sang the single "All for Love" with Rod Stewart and Sting from the movie The Three Musketeers (1993), which became a #1 single reaching across Europe and North America. In 1993, Adams released a greatest hits album, titled "So Far So Good", which spawned a #1 single, "Please Forgive Me". He won one for best song written specifically for a motion picture or television ("(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"). "Waking Up the Neighbours" sold four million albums in the United States and garnered him six Grammy nominations (a record for a Canadian). The song was also Adams' first Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe nomination as the song was written for the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). The song sold more than three million copies in the United States, becoming the second best selling single, second only to "We Are the World". However, he released the album "Waking Up the Neighbours" (1991) which included the single "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You". The album yielded a top ten single "Heat of the Night", another Grammy nomination and another platinum album to his name. In 1987, he released his fifth album "Into the Fire", a more social conscious album. The album also sold four million copies at the time. However, it was his fourth album "Reckless" (1984), which is referred to as one of the best albums of the decade that made him an international superstar and gave him his first Grammy nomination. The album made him popular throughout the United States. Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams rose to fame with the release of his third album, "Cuts Like a Knife" (1983).
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