Jimmy Somerville

At 62 years old, Jimmy Somerville physical status not available right now. We will update Jimmy Somerville's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

James William Somerville (born 22 June 1961) is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter.

He performed with Bronski Beat and The Communards in the 1980s and has also performed as a solo artist.

He is best known for his strong and soulful countertenor/falsetto singing voice.

He is openly gay; many of his albums, such as "Smalltown Boy," contain a political commentary on gay-related topics.

Early life

James William Somerville, a young boy in Ruchill, a suburb of northern Glasgow, was born on June 22nd, 1961. He migrated to London in 1980, where he lived in squats. He became immersed in gay culture and attended the London Gay Teenage Group.

Source

Career

Somerville co-founded Bronski Beat, a synthpop band that had multiple hits on the British charts in 1983. "Smalltown Boy," the group's most popular song, debuted at No. 1. In the UK charts, there are three of them. Somerville plays the song's titular character, who leaves his violent hometown for the friendlier city, based on Somerville's own experiences when he moved to London.

Somerville left Bronski Beat in 1985 and formed The Communards with classically-trained pianist Richard Coles, who became a Church of England vicar (retired, April 2022) and broadcaster. Many hits, including a cover version of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' "Don't Leave Me This Way," which spent four weeks at No. 1 in the UK charts and became the country's highest-selling single since 1986. On Fine Young Cannibals' version of "Suspicious Minds," which was also a UK Top 10 hit, he sang backing vocals.

Somerville began a solo career the following year after the Communards split in 1988; the Communards moved to a city in the United States. Read My Lips debuted in November 1989, with three UK Top 30 hits, including a hit cover of Sylvester's disco masterpiece "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" and a reverse of "Comment te dire adieu? "A duet with June Miles-Kingston, who reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart, which ranked at number 14." At the time of 1989, he also performed on the second Band Aid project.

The Singles Collection 1984/1990, Somerville's greatest-hits album (which featured his hits with Bronski Beat and The Communards in addition to his own material) was released in November 1990; it reached number 4 on the UK Album Chart. It featured a reggae cover of the Bee Gees' hit song "To Love Somebody" that also made it to the UK Top 10. Somerville contributed the song "From This Moment On" to Cole Porter's tribute album Red Hot + Blue in 1990, which also supports AIDS research.

Somerville also contributed to a 1991 video "Why Aren't You in Love With Me?" From the album Ripe by Communards' offshoot band Banderas, the group comes from the following: Caroline Buckley and Sally Herbert, a member of Somerville's backing band, had previously been a member of the Banderas. He disappeared from the limelight for many years after this. He returned in 1995 with the album Dare to Love, which featured "Heartbeat" (a UK Top 30 hit and a No. 1). "Hurt So Good" and "By Your Side" were both hits on the US dance charts, but commercial success was fading for him and London Records' contract with which he had been signed for over a decade came to an end.

In 1997, a new single named "Dark Sky" was launched, peaking at No. 2 in the U.S. In the United Kingdom, there are 66. Tony Visconti produced "The Number One Song in Heaven" for the Sparks album Plagiarism in the same year. Manage The Risk, his third album, was released in 1999 via Gut Records, but it didn't make it to the charts. Root Beer, a companion remix album, came out in 2000. Home Again, his fourth solo album, a dance-orientated collection of songs, was released in 2004, but not in a charting sense.

The acoustic interpretations of other people's songs appeared on Somerville's Suddenly Last Summer album in May 2009. The album was initially available as a digital download, but in May 2010 a limited edition (3,000 copies) CD/DVD was released in the United Kingdom. Somerville released Bright Thing, a dance album in late 2010.

The EP of 2010 was the first of a line of three, with Somerville launching Momentum in 2011 and Solent in 2012, as long-time collaborator John Winfield.

Homage, a disco-inspired album from Somerville, was released in 2014. "Back to Me" was followed by "Travesty" in the singles. The emphasis in recording the album was on retaining the original disco's musical authenticity, which Somerville grew up listening to. "I've finally made the disco album I've always wanted to and never thought I could."

In Isaac Julien's 1989 film Looking for Langston ("Girltown"), he has also worked in acting, appearing in Sally Potter's 1992 film of Virginia Woolf's Orlando.

Somerville teamed up with producer Sally Herbert (formerly of the 1990s duo Banderas and later in The Communards' backing band) to record "Everything Must Change" by Benard Ighner in February 2021, a collection of projects that include Centrepoint in London and a variety of other homeless charity organizations around the United Kingdom, including some of the following homeless charities.

Source