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Alex Lloyd (born Alex Wasiliev in Sydney, November 1974) is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend released in 2001 went double platinum and his third album Distant Light released in 2003 has featured three songs that have made the Australian top 40 singles charts. He has also won two ARIA awards for "Male Artist of the Year" in 2000 and 2002. Alex Stewart Lloyd (born 28 December 1984) is a British motor racing driver who is resident in the Isle of Man. ...
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Early years
Lloyd was born with the surname Wasiliev in Sydney and adopted the surname Lloyd after his mother's maiden name in tribute to her following her death. This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ...
Lloyd grew up in the inner Sydney suburb of Balmain, where he attended Sydney Secondary College. He began his career at age 13, playing at local pubs with self-formed blues band The Beefs, and left school at age 16 to front local indie rock band Mother Hubbard. The term inner-city is often applied to the poorer parts at the centre of a major city. ...
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Solo career His solo career began in 1997 when he started writing songs for his debut solo album Black The Sun and spent time at a songwriting clinic organised by Miles Copeland, former manager of The Police. Lloyd started producing the album in 1998 and finished the album with producer Ed Buller, a former member of the Psychedelic Furs, who had produced albums by Pulp and Suede. Miles Axe Copeland III (May 2, 1944—) is an American entertainment executive, best known for founding I.R.S. Records. ...
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Black the Sun won a great deal of critical acclaim with Triple J listeners voting it their album of the year. Lloyd won an ARIA award for "Best New Artist" in 1999 and his first award for "Best Male Artist" in 2000. For other uses, see JJJ. Triple J is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ...
Lloyd's second album Watching Angels Mend went double platinum in Australia after its release in 2001. The second single, "Amazing", proved to be a breakthrough for him, becoming his first top 40 single in Australia, being the top song on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2001. It went to go to number one in New Zealand and be the most played track on Australian radio during 2002. The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music poll, based on the votes of Australian youth radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. ...
Two further top 40 singles in Australia followed in 2002 "Green" and "Everybody's Laughing". Lloyd went on to win his second ARIA award for "Best Male Artist" and was nominated in several other categories.
Lloyd's third album Distant Light was released in 2003. It featured Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey of Midnight Oil on several tracks. It was produced by Stuart Miller, who had also produced Watching Angels Mend and mixed by Tony Hoffer who has worked with Air, Beck and Turin Brakes. Jim Moginie is an Australian musician. ...
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Distant Light was also a success on the ARIA charts. Three singles charted from the album — "Coming Home" in August 2003, "1000 Miles" in November 2003, and "Beautiful" in April 2004. The album has been certified platinum in Australia.
In 2005, Lloyd released a new single, entitled "Never Meant to Fail", which reached the top 30 in Australia. This was released on October 25 in the album that featured his own name as the title. This has been nominated by critics as 'his best album yet' but no official recognition of this has yet been made. Singles which have been released from this album ("Never Meant to Fail", "The Wonder" and "Brand New Day") have had significant airplay on radio stations across Australia. is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 2006, Alex Lloyd performed in the grand finale of Dancing With The Stars, singing his breakthrough song, "Amazing". His performance in the show may have helped with sales of his album, as the album re-entered the albums chart a couple of weeks after the show. Alex Lloyd also released his greatest hits compilation, titled Amazing: The Best of Alex Lloyd, which covers all the singles from the four previous Alex Lloyd albums. The limited edition of the compilation features a second CD of B-sides and rarities. Countries with their own version Dancing with the Stars is the name for a number of international television series based on the format of the British series Strictly Come Dancing. ...
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Discography
Albums Black the sun- features these songs such as. ...
Watching Angels Mend is an album by Alex Lloyd. ...
Distant Light (2003) (see 2003 in music) is the third album released by Australian singer-songwriter Alex Lloyd. ...
Alex Lloyds latest album features never meant to fail and the wonder which are some of his latest songs. ...
Singles From Black the Sun: - "Black the Sun" (1998)
- "Lucky Star" (1999)
- "My Way Home" (2000) - #50 Australia[2]
From Watching Angels Mend: - "Downtown" (2001) - #75 Australia
- "Amazing" (2001) - #14 Australia[2] (gold), #1 New Zealand[3]
- "Green" (2002)- #25 Australia[2]
- "Everybody's Laughing" (2002) - #33 Australia[2]
- "Bus Ride" (2002)
From Distant Light: Amazing is the debut single released by Australian singer, Alex Lloyd in 2001 Categories: | | ...
- "Coming Home" (2003) - #24 Australia[2]
- "1000 Miles" (2003)- #32 Australia[2]
- "Beautiful" (2004)- #30 Australia[2]
From Alex Lloyd: - "Never Meant to Fail" (2005)- #27 Australia[2]
- "The Wonder" (2006)
- "Brand New Day" (2006)- #53 Australia
Brand New Day is a song by Australian artist Alex Lloyd. ...
References - ^ Alex Lloyd at MySpace
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Alex Lloyd chart positions. Australian-charts.com. Retrieved June 17, 2007.
- ^ a b Alex Lloyd New Zealand chart positions. Australian-charts.com. Retrieved June 17, 2007.
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External links - Alex Lloyd official site
- Alex Lloyd at MySpace
- Amazon artist page
- Undercover news article on the birth of Lloyd's child
- Chaos Music biography
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