He is one of the biggest music stars in the world. During a career spanning nearly half a century, he sold over 75 million records. His account includes, among others: Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, MTV VMAs and 18 Uno Awards – statuettes of the Canadian music industry. He was also nominated many times for the Golden Globes and even the Oscars. Almost everyone knows his atmospheric ballads, such as “Everything I do, I do it for you”, “Heaven”, “Have you ever really loved a woman” and “Please forgive me”. But for many years Bryan Adams was called an eternal boy who can only sing true love. However, the opinion that followed him did not prevent the music star from engaging in numerous affairs. Top models, actresses, and apparently even Lady Di herself succumbed to his charm.
Bryan Adams on his mother: She's more rock 'n' roll than me
Born on November 5, 1959 in Kingston, Ontario, Bryan Guy Adams traveled around the world as a child. All thanks to his diplomat father, who often traveled due to his work. Little Bryan had a chance to live in Portugal, Austria and Israel. However, the happy family life ended in the early 1970s when Mr. and Mrs. Adams divorced. Bryan then moved in with his mother and younger brother in Vancouver. The boy attended high school there, but he was more interested in music than books. Soon he even started performing as a drummer with local rock bands. It became obvious that he had talent and he had no intention of going to college.
Elizabeth Jane Adams, Bryan's mother, played an important role in his career. Because it was she who yielded to her teenage son's begging and agreed to buy him his first piano with the money earmarked for his studies. Perhaps she understood her son's artistic tendencies because, although she worked as a librarian, she is a talented painter and poet. It soon turned out that her faith in Bryan's talent paid off. The piano was used by Adams to compose the first hit in his career – the song “Straight From The Heart”. It is true that Bryan Adams received only one dollar for the first recording contract signed in 1978, and as he admitted many years later in a conversation with a Rolling Stone journalist, he kept the check as a souvenir – it was the first step to today's fame. It's no wonder that mother still holds a special place in the artist's heart. “Mom is more rock 'n' roll than me. If there's a rebel in the family, it's her. She's just a scandalist,” Bryan assured during a TV interview TVN during a concert in Poland in 2015.
Bryan Adams' first media partner starred in his music video
Bryan Adams' career quickly gained momentum. Already in 1984, the artist released the album “Reckless”, containing hits such as “Run to You”, “Somebody”, “Heaven”, “Summer of '69”, “One Night Love Affair” and “It's Only Love”. The album turned out to be a great success – it sold several million copies. And Bryan Adams became the undisputed music star. He quickly began to lead a rock and roll life and enjoy the benefits of fame. One of them was the ease of establishing relationships with beautiful women.
Bryan Adams has three Oscar nominations – they came to him for songs written for cinema hits such as “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves” (“Everything I do, I do it for you”), “Love Has Two Faces” (” I finally found someone”, recorded in a duet with Barbra Streisand) and “Don Juan de Marco” (“Have you ever really loved a woman”). The sensual music video for this latest hit was shot at the Casa los Pavos Reales estate in Malaga and stars Cecile Thomsen. It was no accident that the Danish actress found herself on the set of the video – she was Bryan Adams' then partner.
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The singer was spotted with a famous actress. He photographed supermodels in front of the lens
Known for movies such as “Tomorrow Never Dies” or “Club 54”, beauty is not the only star on the list of Bryan Adams' conquests. It was connected, among others, with Gwyneth Palthrow – in 2002, the couple was spotted together at a private Wellington club in Knigtsbridge, and then photographed embracing and riding away on the musician's motorcycle. In turn, supermodel Linda Evangelista became one of the first heroines of Bryan Adams' photos. Today, the music star is also a renowned photographer whose lens includes, among others: such celebrities as Mick JaggerRammstein, Lana Del Rey and Billy Idol, and even Queen Elizabeth II.
“I remember taking photos Amy Winehouseshe wanted wine and drank the entire bottle in about five minutes. I would expect from Mick Jagger that he would require something stronger, but with him there was no tea,” Adams said in an interview for Interia.pl. It was rumored that Adams had something more in common with Linda Evangelista than photography. He was also linked with another supermodel – Elle MacPherson. But it was another romance that excited the artist's fans the most.
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“I knew Bryan was having an affair with Diana.”
Diana Spencer was called the queen of people's hearts, but it was no secret that she herself was unlucky in love. There were even rumors that Prince Harry was the fruit of one of her affairs. Some time ago, there was also information that Lady Di had something more in common with Bryan Adams. The rumors appeared after the musician's former partner, Cecilie Thomsen, mentioned in an interview that she knew about their love adventure. “I knew that Bryan was having an affair with Diana. He was a friend of Paul Burrell and he introduced him to Diana. I wasn't invited then,” the actress said in 2003 in an interview with Billed Bladed magazine.
At that time, the artist did not comment on these speculations, but after a few years the matter returned. All thanks to the program “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen”. The host asked Bryan Adams directly: “There are many rumors that you and Princess Diana were having an affair. Her butler revealed that he helped you sneak into Kensington Palace on many occasions. How would you describe your relationship?” However, the musician replied evasively: “Good friends. And she didn't smuggle me in, I crawled in myself.” However, Andy Cohen probed further, asking if they were “friends with benefits”. Adams was silent for a moment, then cut off further questions by saying, “Hmm, she was just… we were good friends,” he said. But in his song titled “Diana”, the musician sings: “The day he married you – I almost lost my mind. Diana – what are you doing with a guy like him?” Later, the singer adds that the heroine of the text was “the queen of his dreams”.
Bryan Adams became a father at the age of 51
Many doubted that Bryan Adams would ever settle down. However, he surprised everyone when, at the age of 51, he became a father for the first time. Mirabella Bunny, born on April 22, 2011, is the result of the musician's relationship with his assistant Alicia Grimaldi. The couple works together at the Bryan Adams Foundation, which aims to provide children around the world with a decent learning environment. The musician is known for his charity work – he collected signatures of music stars on his Fender Stratocaster guitar and then put it up for auction. The instrument sold for a staggering four million dollars, making it the most expensive guitar in history. Already in 1985, Bryan Adams played at the legendary Live Aid concert, the proceeds of which were intended to fight famine in Ethiopia. A year later, together with U2 and Sting, he took part in a concert tour supporting the activities of Amnesty International.
Alicia Grimaldi and Bryan Adams are today the parents of two girls – Bunny and her younger sister Lula, born in February 2013. Everything indicates that the musician's years of madness are behind him. And we will be able to see how beautifully he can sing about love tomorrow during “New Year's Eve with Two”.