robin thicke

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Background information Birth name Robin Charles Thicke Also known as Thicke Genre(s) R&B, soul, blue-eyed soul Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician, actor Years active 2002–present Label(s) Nu America, Star Trak, Interscope Website www.robinthicke.com

Robin Charles Thicke is an American Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and occasional actor. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 Music career 2.1 2002–2004: Early commercial success 2.2 2005–2007: The Evolution of Robin Thicke 2.2.1 Further activities 2.3 2008–present: Something Else 3 Discography 4 Awards and nominations 5 References 6 External links //

Biography

Robin was born March 10, 1977 and is the son of actor Alan Thicke and his first wife, Days of our Lives actress, Gloria Loring.

In 2004 Thicke won his first Grammy award for his collaborations on Usher's 2004 release Confessions. As an artist, he recorded and performed solely under his surname, Thicke. He would continue to do so until 2005. On June 11, 2005, Thicke married actress Paula Patton, whom he met and began dating when he was 14 years old.[1]

Music career

2002–2004: Early commercial success

In 2000, Robin, who simply went by his last name Thicke, went to work on material for his debut album, initially entitled Cherry Blue Skies. The album focused more on blue-eyed soul, than his pop-offerings for other artists.

In 2002, Robin Thicke released his debut single "When I Get You Alone". The track samples Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven", which itself is a disco rendition of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The music video for the song features an unshaven Thicke, with long, wild hair, as a courier racing through the streets of Manhattan on a bicycle. It received some rotation on MTV2 and BET's Rated Next and was spun moderately on urban radio. Globally, however, "When I Get You Alone" became a chart success when it peaked within the top 20 in Australia, Belgium, and Italy, and reached the top ten of the singles charts in New Zealand and the top three in the Netherlands. The tune was featured for the soundtrack of Agent Cody Banks.

The moderate success was enough to signal the release of the album, with its name changed to A Beautiful World. Despite the release of a second single, "Brand New Jones", the album received very little promotion, and debuted at a low number 152 on the Billboard 200, eventually selling 63,000 copies domestically.[2]

The song "When I Get You Alone" was performed by Guy Sebastian the eventual winner of Australian Idol 2003 during the competition. Runner-up Blake Lewis during the 2007 season of American Idol when the top 3 chose a song to sing. Lewis has often put