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Chris Rea Biography
Chris Rea is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on March 4, 1951 in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom. The 1980s of the late the 1980s United Kingdom singer-songwriter who sang “The Road to Hell (Part 2)” and “Fool (If You Think It’s Over.”
His debut album was recorded with the help of His debut album was produced by Elton John‘s music producer.’s music producer.
Rea is a fan of historic motor racing and races a Ferrari Dino, a Ferrari 328, and a 1955 Lotus 6. In 1993, he participated in the 1993 BTCC ToCa shootout as a guest driver. He got to drive a Ferrari in a race at the Monza circuit in 1997. He owned and raced the 1964 Lotus Elan 26R, and the well known Caterham 7 from the Auberge album cover, until it was sold in 2005 with all proceeds (£11,762) going to the charity NSPCC. He also owned Ferrari 330 which was used as a donor car for the replica of Ferrari 250 Le Mans used in the 1996 movie La Passione. In 2014, he was completing a 22-year restoration of an original replica of a Ferrari 156 Sharknose Formula One racing car. He also joined Historic Racing Drivers Club, where he drives a 1957 Morris Minor 1000 police car.
Rea bought his first guitar when he was 21 – 22, a 1961 Hofner V3 and 25-watt Laney amplifier, after he left school. He played primarily “bottleneck” guitar, also known as slide guitar. Rea’s playing style was inspired by Charlie Patton whom he had heard on the radio. He had initially thought Patton’s playing sounded like a violin. Rea was also influenced by Blind Willie Johnson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe as well as by the playing of Ry Cooder and Joe Walsh. He was also listening to Delta blues musicians like Sonny Boy Williamson II and Muddy Waters, gospel blues, and opera to light orchestral classics to develop his style. He recalls that “for many people from working-class backgrounds, rock wasn’t a chosen thing, it was the only thing, the only avenue of creativity available for them”, and that “when I was young I wanted most of all to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968 wasn’t the place to be if you wanted to do movie scores”. Due to his late introduction to music and guitar playing, Rea commented that when compared to Mark Knopfler and Eric Clapton, “I definitely missed the boat, I think”. He was self-taught, and soon tried to join a friend’s group, The Elastic Band, as the first choice for guitar or bass. Heeding his father’s advice he did not join as his potential earnings would not be enough to cover the costs of being in the group. As a result, he found himself working casual labouring jobs, including working in his father’s ice cream business. Rea commented that, at that time, he was “meant to be developing my father’s ice-cream cafe into a global concern, but I spent all my time in the stockroom playing slide guitar”.
He got married Joan Rea, with whom there were two children: Josephine Julia Christina and Josephine Julia Christina.
| Name | Chris Rea |
| First Name | Chris |
| Last Name | Rea |
| Occupation | Pop Singer |
| Birthday | March 4 |
| Birth Year | 1951 |
| Place of Birth | Middlesbrough |
| Home Town | England |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Joan Rea |
| Children(s) | Julia Christina Rea, Josephine Rea |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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In 1973 he joined the local Middlesbrough band, Magdalene, which earlier had included David Coverdale who had left to join Deep Purple. He began writing songs for the band and only took up singing because the singer in the band failed to show up for a playing engagement. Rea then went on to form the band The Beautiful Losers which received Melody Maker’s Best Newcomers award in 1973. He secured a solo recording deal with independent Magnet Records, and released his first single entitled “So Much Love” in 1974. The band itself split up in 1977. In 1977 he performed on Hank Marvin’s album The Hank Marvin Guitar Syndicate and also guested on Catherine Howe’s EP The Truth of the Matter. He recorded his first album that same year, but according to Michael Levy (co-founder of Magnet) the recordings were literally burned and started over again because it did not capture his whole talent.
Chris Rea Net Worth
Chris Rea is one of the richest Pop Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Rea's net worth $8 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He started playing guitar at 22. Although he was left-handed, the guitarist was right-handed.
In the beginning in his professional career, the artist sold more thirty million albums around the world.
Christopher Anton Rea (/ˈ r iː ə / REE -ə; born 4 March 1951) is an English rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born and raised in Middlesbrough, he is of Italian and Irish descent. He is known for his distinctive, husky-gravel voice and slide guitar playing, and the Guinness Rockopedia described him as a “gravel-voiced guitar stalwart”.
| Net Worth | $8 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Pop Singer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? was Rea’s debut studio album. It was released in June 1978 and was produced by Gus Dudgeon who had been brought in by the company to re-record the album after it had been scrapped. The title of the album was a reference to “Benjamin Santini”, the stage name that Rea had suggested when the record label insisted that his given name did not sound “croony” enough. The album peaked at No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 200, and charted for 12 weeks. The first single taken from the album, “Fool (If You Think It’s Over)”, was Rea’s biggest hit in the US, peaking at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary Singles chart. Like most of Rea’s early singles, “Fool (If You Think It’s Over)” failed to appear on the UK Singles Chart on its first release and only reached No. 30 when it was re-released in late 1978 to capitalise on its U.S. achievement. The overall success was Magnet Records’ major breakthrough and their first Top-10 success in the U.S., making Rea their biggest artist. Levy remembers him as “more of a thoughtful, introspective poet than a natural pop performer” which Levy felt stopped Rea from becoming a major star. Since the record label saw him as a piano-playing singer-songwriter similar to Elton John and Billy Joel instead of the guitar player he was, the label gave the record buyers a different impression of him than what he felt was correct for three or four years. Rea noted that the hit song “is still the only song I’ve ever not played guitar on, but it just so happened to be my first single, and it just so happened to be a massive hit”. He also felt that he “always had a difficult relationship with fame, even before my first illness. None of my heroes were rock stars. I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards once and thought I was going to bump into people who mattered, like Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. But I was surrounded by pop stars”.
In the United States he is best known for the 1978 song “Fool (If You Think It’s Over)”, which reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. This success earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1979. As of 2009, he had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Chris Rea height 5 ft 8 in Chris weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | 5 ft 8 in |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Rea is married to Joan Lesley, with whom he has been in a relationship since they met as teenagers on 6 April 1968 in their native Middlesbrough. They have two daughters, Josephine, born 16 September 1983, and Julia Christina, born 18 March 1989. Josephine lectures on Renaissance art in Florence and Julia studied at the University of St Andrews. Rea used to live at Cookham, Berkshire, where he owned Sol Mill Recording Studios and produced some of his later albums.
Dudgeon went on to produce Rea’s next studio album Deltics (1979). Rea recorded his third album, Tennis (1980), utilizing musicians from Middlesbrough; which received positive reviews. As both albums had failed commercially the record company refused his artwork intended for the cover of his fourth album Chris Rea (1982). None of these albums managed to enter the Top 50 in the UK. The released singles at this time also failed to provide further hits as “Diamonds” reached No. 44 and “Loving You” went to No. 88 on the Billboard Hot 100. Rea has since spoken about the difficult working relationship he had at the time with Dudgeon and other “men in suits” who he felt ‘smoothed out’ the blues-influenced elements of his music. During one interview he recalled that he “always thought that they [producers] knew best. I never thought for a minute that they might have another agenda” and “all of a sudden I was the goose that laid the golden egg, and it was hell for me”. He’s also said that (I) “can’t blame anyone but myself. I gave them what they wanted rather than what I wanted”.
Who is Chris Rea Dating?
According to our records, Chris Rea married to Joan Rea. As of December 1, 2023, Chris Rea’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Chris Rea. You may help us to build the dating records for Chris Rea!Rea’s first guitar was Höfner Verithin 3, which he bought in a second-hand shop because, at the time, there were not that many shops in Middlesbrough where one could purchase a guitar. He played the V3 until 1979, although, by Rea’s reckoning, it was a “dreadful guitar with an appalling action, but playing slide it didn’t matter”. During his career the guitar most associated with him was a 1962 Fender Stratocaster which he called “Pinky”. Rea bought the instrument after seeing a Ry Cooder concert at the City Hall in Newcastle. The guitar once was submerged in water for three months and was more mellow in sound compared to the classic hard Stratocaster sound. Since 2002 Dancing Down the Stony Road, his main guitar was an Italia Maranello he named “Bluey”.
Facts & Trivia
Chris Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Chris Rea celebrates birthday on March 4 of every year.
British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was “one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s” and “already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with the release of the single “The Road to Hell (Part 2)”, which was his 18th chart entry. Two of his studio albums, The Road to Hell and Auberge, topped the UK Albums Chart. Rea was nominated three times for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: in 1988, 1989 and 1990. His other hit songs include “I Can Hear Your Heartbeat”, “Stainsby Girls”, “Josephine”, “On the Beach”, “Let’s Dance”, “Driving Home for Christmas”, “Working on It”, “Tell Me There’s a Heaven”, “Auberge”, “Looking for the Summer”, “Winter Song”, “Nothing to Fear”, “Julia”, and “If You Were Me”, a duet with Elton John.
Is Chris Rea Still Alive 2021?
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter guitarist record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals guitar piano |
| Years active | 1973–present |
What is Chris Rea most famous song?
| 1. | “The Road to Hell (Part 2)“ | 4:32 |
| 2. | “Josephine” | 4:34 |
| 3. | “Let’s Dance” | 4:17 |
| 4. | “Fool (If You Think It’s Over)” | 4:07 |
Is Cat Rea related to Chris Rea?
Originally from Middlesbrough, Cat is no stranger to music as her father is a musician, one of her uncles is an opera singer, and another uncle is Chris Rea, writer of hit Christmas song “Driving Home for Christmas”.
Is Chris Rea still working?
Unfortunately there are no concert dates for Chris Rea scheduled in 2022.
How old is Rema Nigerian artist?
22 years (May 1, 2000)
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