Corey Hart

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Born May 31, 1962, Corey Mitchell Hart (born May 31, 1962) is a Canadian singer-songwriter best known for his hit songs "Sunglasses at Night" and "Never Surrender."

He has sold more than 16 million albums worldwide and has had nine Billboard Top 40 hits.

30 of Hart's albums have reached the top 40, with 11 of them in the Top 10, over the course of 35 years in the music business.

Hart is a recipient of both Canada's Music Hall of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame, as well as a multiple Juno award nominee and winner, including the Diamond Award for his best-selling album Boy in the Box.

Authors, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers of Canada have also honoured him (SOCAN).

Early life

Hart was born in Montreal, Quebec, on May 31, 1962, the youngest of five children of Mina (née Weber) and Robert Hart, both Montreal natives, were born. His paternal grandfather was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, while Corey's mother was from a Romanian Jewish family. When he was ten years old, Hart's parents split. In Montreal, Hart and his older brother Robbie lived with his mother and older brother Robbie. He had a particularly close relationship with his mother, to whom his first album, First Offense, was dedicated. Hart had no contact with his father, and this is shown in several of his compositions, including the 1998 song "Reconcile."

Hart's first experience as a performer came at age 11, when he sang "Ben" for Tom Jones in Miami. During this time, he performed with Paul Anka in Las Vegas. Hart appeared in 1980 in Tokyo (along with singer Dan Hill), marking his first public display of original music. Back in Canada, Hart reached out to Billy Joel, who was on tour in the Montreal area at the time. Joel's backup band contacted him and Hart, and they wound up recording several demos with them in Long Island, New York. Hart performed on demos with several other Canadian studio musicians before deciding to the Aquarius Records label in 1982 at the age of 20. Several songs on his first album, including "The World Is Fire," depict the rejections and challenges Hart faced along the way to get a recording contract.

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Recording career

In the spring of 1982, Hart's debut album, First Offense, was released at Revolution Recording Studios in Manchester, England. Jon Astley, who was then best known for his appearances with The Who and Phil Chapman, produced it. First Offense, a 1983 release of the US Billboard Top Ten Hit song "Sunglasses at Night," was released (No. 1). "It Ain't Enough" is the Top 20's top-up single and No. 7 is no. (17) The number 17 has been manipulated by the people who attended. The album achieved gold in the United States and quadruple platinum in Canada. Upon its arrival in Canada, First Offense received only a modest reaction. It was only after winning the United States in the summer of 1984 that he became well known in his native Canada.

"Jenny Fey" by First Offense featured guitarist Eric Clapton on the album's closing track.

"Sunglasses at Night" (directed by Rob Quartly), a futuristic, Orwellian society, helped to boost the track's fame.

Hart toured Canada and Canada extensively in 1984 and 1985, first as a supporting act for Culture Club, April Wine, Thomas Dolby, Hall & Oates, and Rick Springfield, then as a headline performer. At the ADISQ Awards in Hart's native Quebec, where the singer was also rated for Best New Artist. The Félix was won by First Offense.

Boy in the Box, Hart's second album, was released in June 1985 and sold in Canada (one million copies sold) by February 1986. It was the second album by a Canadian artist to do so. The album contained the hit single "Never Surrender" which spent nine weeks at No. 1 for nine weeks. 1 in Canada and a record high at No. 1 in the country, with no. 1 ranked at No. 1. Hart also received an ASCAP Award as one of 1985's most popular songs, number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The No. 1 was "Never Surrender" in the No. st. In 1985, the 2 song appeared in the year-end Canadian charts, finishing second to the Northern Lights charity album "Tears Are Not Enough" in which Hart was also involved, as well as veteran Canadian artists Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Bryan Adams. (Boy in the Box), "Everything in My Heart" and "Eurasian Eyes") are among the sub-sequent singles that have been charted in the Canadian and US Top 40 ("Boy in the Box," "Everything in My Heart") and "Eurasian Eyes" respectively. Boy in the Box, a boy from the United States, hit No. 69 in the United States. On the Billboard 200 albums chart, 20 of them were ranked 20 and went platinum.

Boy in the Box was nominated for a Juno Award as well as an ADISQ Award for Best Album, and for Best Album, he was given a Félix for Hart in this class. The Juno Award for the Best Selling Single of 1985 went to "Never Surrender." Hart was also selected for the Composer of the Year award at both the Juno and ADISQ awards, winning a Félix in this field. In addition, he was nominated for Best Video for "Never Surrender" and Best Male Vocalist of the Year, as well as an ADISQ award for Concert of the Year. Hart also received the Félix for the Quebec artist who had the most success outside of Quebec in the Anglophone market, as well as Best Male Artist. Hart's following year received Juno awards for Composer of the Year and Best Selling Single for "Everything in My Heart";

Hart toured extensively in North America and Japan in support of Boy in the Box, including the Edmonton Budokan in Tokyo, the Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome, and the Vancouver Forum in Montreal. He appeared on Good Rockin' Tonite (Canada), Friday Night Videos and MTV (US), and Music Life (Japan), as well as Europe and Australasia.

Fields of Fire, Hart's third album, came out in fall 1986 and went double platinum in Canada and earned gold status in the United States. It featured the Top 20 hit song "I Am By Your Side" as well as the Canadian No. Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love" is one of Elvis Presley's single "Can't Help Falling in Love." This was the first time a song was released on a record. The album was also a top-ten hit in the Philippines and Japan. Fields of Fire represented a new, more mature direction in Hart's songwriting, according to critics.

Fields of Fire received numerous accolades at the 1987 Juno Awards, including Best Male Vocalist of the Year, Best Album Graphics (done by Hart's partner Erika Gagnon) and Single of the Year for "Can't Help Falling in Love." At the time's ADISQ Awards, the singer was also selected for Best Male Artist and Album of the Year.

Hart also began a world tour in support of the record. He appeared in Japan and Europe from fall 1986 to mid-1987, and made promotional appearances. Hart's tour had to be suspended prematurely in July 1987 after the then 25-year-old singer's collapsed backstage from exhaustion after a concert in Canada. After almost four years of touring and recording, he took some time off for rest and recuperation.

Hart returned to songwriting, resulting in the singer's fourth album release, Young Man Running. The Top 40 hits "In Your Soul" in the United States (which reached No. 0) on the charts (which reached No. 1). (two in Canada) The album featured veteran backing musicians, in particular Ruby Turner, and was largely produced by Hart himself.

Herb Ritts, a photographer, shot the album's front cover and some others. Meiert Avis (U2, Bruce Springsteen) produced the video for "In Your Soul" on location in New Mexico and Moab, Utah, and was directed by Meiert Avis (U2, Bruce Springsteen).

In 1988, Hart toured extensively in Japan and the Philippines, as well as in Canada's East Coast and Quebec, where he spoke predominantly in French. Hart, the Budokan in Tokyo, as well as arenas in other Japanese cities and the Ultra, a 13,000 seat venue outside Manila, sold out the Budokan. Young Man Running received an ADISQ Award for Album of the Year.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang! Despite the success of the first single (a Top ten hit in Canada), Bang! The album was less popular than previous albums in the United States; EMI also failed to nominate Hart for any Juno Award categories this year. In August 1990, Hart was fired from his employment with the firm. In 1991, EMI released a set of Hart's singles on a compilation album titled Singles. At the 1990 ADISQ awards, Hart received a nomination for Best Male Artist.

Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records, approached Hart at this moment and then signed him to Sire shortly thereafter. Hart's sole album for the brand Attitude & Virtue was released. It debuted on the top 40 in Canada in 1992 and featured many guests including Jane Siberry, Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, Terence Trent D'Arby, and Ruby Turner's return. Three singles from the album were released: "Baby When I Call Your Name" (released in Canada and the United States), "92 Days of Rain" (released in Canada) and "Always" (released in Canada and the United States). All three singles have been ranked in the Canadian Top 40. "Baby When I Call Your Name" and "92 Days of Rain" were followed by films, the latter being directed by Hart's first director, Rob Quartly. "Back in the Hand," the album's first song, summed up the previous decade as a symbol of regaining control of his musical career.

Hart was nominated for the 1992 Best Male Vocalist of the Year by the Juno Award. He took a break from writing and touring ("Jane Hawtin Live), 1997). In 1994, he released one single, a recreation of Edith Piaf's "Hymn to Love."

Career rebirth

Julie Masse, a fellow nominee with two platinum selling albums in Quebec, Julie Masse, and Contre Jour were recognized at the Juno Awards of 1993 in Toronto. Masse's boss suggested that Hart work with her on a new English language album after they met together. Hart co-produced and wrote five songs for Masse's best-selling Circle of One, which was released in Canada in 1994 and marked the first time Hart wrote and produced music for an artist other than himself. They were also married and divorced with four children as a husband and wife. Hart was previously married to photographer/graphic designer Erika Gagnon from 1990 to 1994, and Masse to cinematographer Sylvain Brault from 1993 to 1994.

Hart has signed a new deal with Sony Music Canada and unveiled an eponymous CD Corey Hart in 1996. Humberto Gatica co-produced the album, which featured some of Hart's most reflective work, aided by his personal life transitions. "Black Cloud Rain"'s popularity prompted the No. 1 spot, and it took place. Corey Hart, number 2 on the Canadian Top 40, went platinum in Canada. Javier Aguilera, a young Mexican filmmaker, produced "Black Cloud Rain"'s video. For the first time since the cancelled 1987 Fields of Fire tour, "Tell Me," "Third of June," and "Someone") all reached the Canadian Top 40. More award nominations have been given to Corey Hart, including Juno nominations for Best Male Vocalist of the Year and Best Producer for "Black Cloud Rain" and "Simplicity," a non-single album track, and Best Anglophone Quebec Artist at the ADISQ Awards, among others.

Celine Dion, a fellow Canadian, released her Let's Talk About Love album in 1997, which included the phrase from the film Titanic's "My Heart Will Go On." Two songs written and co-produced by Hart were also on the album: "Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)" and "Where Is the Love" were two songs by the Canadian Top 40. Dion's team reached out to Hart following Corey Hart's popularity in Canada and asked if he would write and produce for the songstress, as shown by Dion's concert DVD Au cur du stade. He was also nominated for the Juno Award for Best Producer of the Dion tracks. Later in 1999, Hart appeared in the United States for the first time since the late 1980s as Dion's guest in St. Louis, Missouri, and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. From her 2002 album A New Day Has Come, Hart collaborated with Dion again on "Prayer."

Hart's second album on Sony, Jade, featuring a duet with partner Masse on the Jean-Jacques Goldman song "Là-bas." The lead-off single "So Visible (Easy to Miss)" and its sequel "Break the Chain") both charted in the Canadian Top 40, while Hart received yet another Juno Award nomination (for Best Male Vocalist of the Year) and Toured Canada in support of the album. Hart returned to a personal crossroads in Canada in the late 1990s after enjoying a comeback in the late 1990s.

Hart became largely silent at the end of the millennium as he and Masse married and relocated to Nassau, Bahamas, to focus on raising their young family. He returned to Montreal in late 2002 for a two-night concert with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, performing songs from Corey Hart and Jade, as well as older hits to the MSO's accompaniment.

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Awards and nominations

• Canadian Music Hall of Fame, 2019 inductee for lifetime achievement in music.
• Canada's Walk of Fame, 2016 inductee for lifetime achievement in music.
• Canadian Recording Industry Association Diamond Award, Boy in the Box, January 1986 (over 1 million units sold). Hart was only the second Canadian artist to achieve this honor and BITB was the fastest-selling Diamond album to date at that time.
• Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) "Classics" Awards for songs with over 100,000 plays on radio: "Sunglasses At Night", "It Ain't Enough", "Never Surrender", "Everything In My Heart", "I Am By Your Side", "In Your Soul", "Tell Me", and "Third of June". "Boy in the Box", "Eurasian Eyes" and "Black Cloud Rain" are also very close to passing this historic mark, likely around the end of 2012.
• In the US First Offense, Boy in the Box and Fields of Fire are all gold certified (500,000 copies of each sold). Boy in the Box is also certified platinum. In Canada First Offense went triple platinum (300,000 copies sold), and Hart achieved the aforementioned Diamond award for Boy in the Box (1 million), with a double platinum certification for Fields of Fire (200,000 sold), and platinum for Young Man Running, BANG! and Corey Hart (100,000 of each sold). Hart has also been awarded with several gold selling single awards for "Everything in My Heart", "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Boy in the Box" and a platinum single award for "Never Surrender".