Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams (born Robert Peter Williams on 13 February 1974 in Stoke-on-Trent) is a Grammy Award-nominated and multi BRIT Award-winning British singer-songwriter. His career started as a dancer and singer of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to launch his solo career.
Robbie Williams as a solo artist has sold more albums in the United Kingdom than any other British solo artist in history and has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist to date. His album sales stands at over 55 million worldwide.
Williams entered in The Guinness Book of World Records when he announced his World Tour for 2006, selling 1.6 million tickets in one single day. He has been the recipient of many awards, including ten BRIT and six ECHO awards. In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, after being voted as the Greatest artist of the 1990s.
He appears in the list of the all-time Top 100 biggest selling albums in the United Kingdom six times.It is also estimated he is currently the best selling non-Latino artist in Latin America at the moment with over 3 million sold.
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Robbie Williams' Monogrammed acoustic guitar
Robbie Williams rose to fame in the early 1990s, when he answered an advert in the Manchester press inviting applications for a five-piece boy band called Take That. In 1996, Robbie shocked fans by announcing he was leaving the group. As a solo artist, he has produced hit albums like Life Thru A Lens and Escapology and has been awarded the most BRIT Awards ever for a British artist. This guitar was played by Robbie at his famous 2003 Knebworth concerts, which drew 375,000 people and broke box office records.
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