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Sam Roberts is a singer, multi-instrumentalist & songwriter who was
born on October 2, 1974, in Montreal, Quebec CANADA. At the tender age
of four, he fell in love with the violin and took lessons until he was
twenty, Roberts started to play guitar when he was ten years old.
After an unlucky experience in Los Angeles with a band originally known
as William who later changed its name to Northstar, but was never able
to form a national audience, Sam Roberts moved back to his hometown to
focus on his solo career.
In 2001, he wrote tuneful folk-Rock and power-Pop tunes, many of them
built around a percussively strummed acoustic guitar and recorded an independent
six-track EP, "The Inhuman Condition", which went gold in Canada.
Shortly after gaining some recognition the Montreal rocker signed with
Universal Music Group and in May 2003, adding ten tracks to three carryovers
from his debut EP, Roberts issued his first album on a major label, "We
Were Born In A Flame", which included the excellent first single,
the Canadian top 30 smash "Where Have All The Good People Gone"
and the minor hit "Hard Road". The full-length disc rose to
the #2 slot on the Top Canadian Albums chart and gathered a remarkable
two Juno Awards for Album Of The Year and Rock Album Of The Year while
Sam Roberts picked up Artist Of The Year.
For his sophomore album, "Chemical City", he admitted to gleaning
inspiration from records of the late '60s and early '70s; the disc was
released in April of 2006 in Canada and quickly ascended into the top
3. By May 2006 the album was released in the United States as well. It
sported two singles "The Gate" and "Bridge To Nowhere".
Sam Roberts returned with his third album, "Love At The End Of The
World", in May 2008. The set, which features 13 new tracks including
the Canadian Top 40 hit single "Them Kids", became the artist's
first #1 album in his homeland.
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