Ali Campbell

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Ali Campbell
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Big love
  UK 6th 
gold
gold
06/17/1995 (14 weeks)
Running Free
  UK 9 
silver
silver
10/20/2007 (7 weeks)
Flying high
  UK 13 07/11/2009 (4 weeks)
Great British Songs
  UK 15th 10/30/2010 (3 weeks)
silhouette
  UK 18th October 18, 2014 (4 weeks)
Singles
That look in your eye
  DE 65 06/19/1995 (10 weeks)
  UK 5 05/20/1995 (10 weeks)
Let your yeah be yeah
  DE 90 09/25/1995 (5 weeks)
  UK 25th 08/26/1995 (4 weeks)
Somethin 'Stupid (with Kibibi Campbell )
  UK 30th 12/09/1995 (4 weeks)

Alistair Ian Campbell (born February 15, 1959 in Birmingham ) is a British reggae musician with a penchant for dub .

Live and act

Ali Campbell grew up in Birmingham, attended St. Luke's Junior School and the Moseley Road School of Art . He bought his first musical instruments with £ 4,000 in  compensation awarded to him after a bar fight on his 17th birthday. In 1978 he formed a band with school friends after having been unemployed for three years. According to an unemployment benefit form, it was called UB40 . As a solo artist he made his debut in the summer of 1995 with the album "Big Love" and the releases "That Look In Your Eye" and "Let Your Yeah Be Yeah". With his daughter Kibibi he recorded a cover version of " Somethin 'Stupid " in December 1995 , originally by Carson [Parks] And Gaile [Foote] (1966, USA, Kapp Records).

In 2007 the album Running Free was released and in January 2008 he announced his separation from UB40, as he wants to concentrate on his solo career in the future. Since his departure, the Flying High albums have been released in 2009 and Great British Songs 2010, which consists of cover versions of various British singers and bands .

Campbell sings, plays guitar and drums . He has four children from a divorced marriage and two children from his relationship with his current partner.

Discography

With UB40 see UB40 # discography to Twenty Four Seven (2008)

Solo albums

  • Big Love , 1995
  • Running Free , 2007
  • Flying High , 2009
  • Great British Songs , 2010
  • Silhouette , 2014

Singles

  • Something I Feel / Loop / Miss Thing / Alright , 1995
  • Let Your Yeah Be Yeah // You Could Meet Somebody / alternative version , 1995
  • That Look in Your Eye , 1995
  • Somethin 'Stupid / alternative version / Pay the Rent , 1996

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK1 UK2
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ↑ UB40 PRESS STATEMENT ( Memento from March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Alistair Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British reggae musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham