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- Born: February 22, 1974 in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England
- Years Active: 2005-2009
- Genre: Pop
- Influenced by: Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, John Lennon, David Gray, Coldplay, Elliott Smith, Travis, Dave Matthews, Elton John, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen
- Followed By: Jimmy & the Wise Men
- Similar Artists: Teddy Geiger, Shayne Ward, Duke Special, Jeff Buckley, Josh Rouse, Ryan Adams, Norah Jones, Damien Rice, KT Tunstall, Syd Matters, Daniel Powter
- A former British Army officer, singer/songwriter James Blunt is a thoughtful performer with a knack for crafting melodic contemporary soft rock tunes. Born in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England in 1974 to a family with a long military history, Blunt entered the Army after graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Ultimately achieving the rank of captain, Blunt served with the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo and finished out his time in the military as a member of the Life Guard Regiment in the British Household Cavalry. Having long been interested in music, Blunt wasted no time in pursuing a pop career after leaving the Army.
A subsequent performance at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, brought Blunt to the attention of 4 Non Blondes singer/producer Linda Perry, who signed Blunt to her Custard Records label. Released in 2005, Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam, and its hit single, "You're Beautiful," was hugely successful -- it hit number one in over a dozen countries, and sold over ten million copies worldwide. Blunt toured for much of 2005 and 2006, then released the two-disc "odds and sods" live/documentary album Chasing Time: The Bedlam Sessions in 2006. He had been writing songs while on the road, and brought Back to Bedlam producer Tom Rothrock in again to record. (The songs featured writing collaborations with Mark Batson, Jimmy Hogarth. Steve McEwan, and Max Martin, while the recordings featured Blunt's live backing band.) His sophomore effort, All the Lost Souls -- featuring the leadoff single "1973" -- finally dropped in September 2007. Blunt released his third full-length album, Some Kind of Trouble, in 2010.
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