Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant (West Bromwich (Staffordshire), 20 August 1948) is an English rock singer, best known as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, but also for its successful solo career. He is known for his powerful style, large vocal range and often mystical texts.

Plant was born in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. After the end of Led Zeppelin in 1980 went Plant further as a solo artist. In 1984 he spent with the semi-bandThe Honeydrippers : a mini album The Honeydrippers: Volume one with the hit Sea of love. This among other things also played Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck with it. There is so far no Volume two released.

For the soundtrack of the movie Wayne's World 2 in 1993 made a number. Formed In 2005, Plant a new backing band (Strange Sensation) with which he recorded the album Mighty rearranger .

Plant still works regularly together with Page. In december 2007 the surviving members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, supplemented by Jason Bonham, the son of the original drummer John Bonhamdied in 1980, a one-time reunion-concert by Led Zeppelin in the Londse O2. This was set up as a tribute to the earlier that year d. Atlantic-Director Ahmet Ertegün. Despite the fact that the concert was a resounding success, Robert Plant later in an interview for the BBC radio that as far as he is concerned there is no Led Zeppelin reunion. On the one hand because he abandoned other musical paths is, on the other hand because he feels too old for an exhaustive world tour. What those other musical paths subject: in 2007, along with singer Alison Krauss Raising Sand the cd included. That turned out to be a resounding success: the album was described by music critics in praise as well as the tour that followed after the publication of the cd.

A year later (end of december 2008), it was announced that Queen Elizabeth II had pleased the Plant up to Commander of the Order of the British Empireto nominate. On July 10, 2009, Plant the decorations of this order from the hands of Prince Charles.

Beginning 2009, listeners of the British digital radio station Planet Rock in a one-time election determined that Robert Plant the best voice in the history of rock music, with which he has Freddie Mercury and Paul Rodgers would have left behind. "The best voice in rock music ' is of course not, but it gives at least to that Robert Plant enjoy great popularity.



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