Charlie Winston

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Charlie Winston, Cruïlla BCN (2010)
Charlie Winston, Cruïlla BCN (2010)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Hobo
  DE 16 09/10/2009 (13 weeks)
  AT 57 January 15, 2010 (4 weeks)
  CH 9 02/08/2009 (59 weeks)
  FR 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link January 31, 2009 (111 weeks)
  BE W 3 02/07/2009 (80 weeks)
Running still
  DE 75 03/09/2012 (1 week)
  CH 24 December 04, 2011 (12 weeks)
  FR 5 11/26/2011 (49 weeks)
  BE W 12 11/26/2011 (57 weeks)
Curio City
  CH 15th 02/01/2015 (5 weeks)
  FR 6th 02/07/2015 (24 weeks)
  BE W 5 31/01/2015 (35 weeks)
Square 1
  FR 60 05.10.2018 (6 weeks)
  CH 51 07.10.2018 (1 week)
  BE W 67 06.10.2018 (8 weeks)
Singles
Like a hobo
  DE 11 09/25/2009 (21 weeks)
  AT 8th 09/25/2009 (28 weeks)
  CH 27 02/08/2009 (40 weeks)
  FR 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/11/2009 (56 weeks)
  BE W 3 January 31, 2009 (34 weeks)
In your hands
  CH 46 08/02/2009 (12 weeks)
  FR 9 09/12/2009 (37 weeks)
  BE W 16 07/18/2009 (13 weeks)
Hello Alone
  FR 41 October 01, 2011 (8 weeks)
  BE W 24 December 03, 2011 (7 weeks)
Dusty Men (with column )
  FR 13 December 08, 2012 (44 weeks)
  BE W 10 11/24/2012 (33 weeks)
Lately
  FR 88 10/25/2014 (3 weeks)
Wilderness
  FR 177 December 20, 2014 (1 week)
Too long
  FR 167 31/01/2015 (1 week)
Truth
  FR 101 04/13/2015 (2 weeks)

Charlie Winston (born September 14, 1978 in Cornwall , England ; actually Charlie Winston Gleave ) is a British singer-songwriter .

Live and act

Charlie Winston comes from a musical family. The parents were musicians in the 1960s and 1970s before they settled in Suffolk , eastern England , and opened the King's Head Hotel in Bungay . Winston's older brother Tom Baxter has been a successful singer since 2004 and together with her sister Vashti Anna they have already been on stage together.

At the age of eight, Charlie Winston learned to play the drums and then the piano. During this time he was also active in a teen band called Body Clock . At 17 he went to a music college in London, where he studied jazz piano, among other things. He wrote music for two dance ensembles and performed as a bass guitarist with his brother and with the National Youth Reggae Ensemble . A period in India followed, studying Indian music before returning to work as a musician and composer for film and theater.

For the first time he received more attention when he recorded a cover version of the song I'm a Man by the Spencer Davis Group for a car commercial . In the video, the song was put in a dog's mouth, whereupon animal lovers complained and the spot was withdrawn.

In 2006 he met Peter Gabriel , signed with his label and appeared in the opening act on Gabriel's European tour the following year. In the same year he also recorded his debut album Make Way . Further appearances followed, many of them in Germany and France. It was there that the collaboration with the Atmosphériques label came about, especially with Mark Plati, who had already produced for many well-known artists. The album Hobo was created in Paris and London in 2008 .

With his song Like a Hobo , Winston appeared in France on the music show Taratata , and the song appeared in the opening credits of the talk show Le Grand Journal . As a result, there was so much demand for the song that both the single and album appeared in the charts in France, Belgium and Switzerland. After the single and album had conquered number 1 in the charts in France , the song was also successfully released in Germany and Austria.

In 2010 he was awarded the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA).

The album Running still , which was released in France in 2011 , went up to number 5 in the album charts. In Germany it was only released in February 2012. Several radio stations, including HR3 and Deutschlandradio Kultur, made it the “album of the week”. The styles assigned to the songs - from old-school hip-hop to danceable sixties soul - change from one piece to the next, so that reviewers say that it can hardly be classified into a single style.

Winston said he was inspired by Jacques Brel in an interview with the French telecom company SFR . He lived in Paris for years before returning to the UK capital in 2014.

Discography

Albums

  • 2007: Make Way
  • 2007: Mischifus
  • 2008: European Tour 2007
  • 2009: Hobo
  • 2011/2012: Running Still
  • 2015: Curio City
  • 2018: Square 1

EPs

  • 2005: Charlie Winston (Baxter)

Singles

  • 2008: I'm a Man
  • 2009: Like a Hobo
  • 2009: In Your Hands
  • 2009: Kick the Bucket
  • 2010: I Love Your Smile
  • 2010: Tongue Tied
  • 2011: Secret Girl
  • 2011: Hello Alone
  • 2012: Where Can I Buy Happiness
  • 2012: Speak to Me
  • 2014: Lately
  • 2014: Wilderness
  • 2015: Too Long
  • 2015: Truth
  • 2015: Say Something
  • 2016: Too Long
  • 2018: The Weekend
  • 2019: Rendez-Vous ( feat.Camélia Jordana )

Guest Posts

  • 2012: Dusty Men ( Saule feat. Charlie Winston)
  • 2017: It's Not Impossible (Stefano Lentini feat. Charlie Winston)

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH FR BE (Wallonia)
  2. ↑ Entry at mytaratata.com ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mytaratata.com
  3. ↑ Interview on BBC News
  4. ↑ "Running Still" hr3 album of the week 10/2012
  5. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendung/cdderwoche/1693432/
  6. ↑ Review by Artur Schulz on laut.de: Beethoven nods to Old School Hip Hop
  7. ↑ Meeting at the NDR youth broadcaster n-joy on Running Still
  8. ↑ Charlie Winston - Paris (Interview)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.live-concert.sfr.fr  
  9. ^ Portrait of Winston on Sputnik
  10. ↑ CD-Facts: German first publication: February 24, 2012
  11. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0002253180
  12. ↑ CD database: Charlie Winston (Baxter) - EP ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / musicr.de

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personal data
SURNAME Winston, Charlie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gleave, Charlie Winston (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Cornwall , England