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James Blunt was born on 22nd February, 1974. He was born in England. He is a song-writer as well as an Army officer (British). The genres that he specializes in are Pop rock and Folk Rock. He has made a worldwide sale of 20 million records. He received awards like the Brit Awards, MTV Video Music awards and including 5 Grammy Award (nomination). Blunt’s first album was named ‘Back to Bedlam’ which was released in UK in October, 2004. One of the most successful songs that he sang was “You’re Beautiful” which made him reach the top 75 even before the song was released and was ranked number 12 in the UK and post six weeks it was the number one hit. Not only in UK was it number one, it became number one even in the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006. Blunt performed around 90 shows live in and around UK and Europe. In 2007, James Blunt was nominated for the Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Album. Blunt is a support for the charitable trust named Help of Heroes, in order to raise money for the better services that need to be provided to servicemen and for this he held concerts to raise this money.