Alex Turner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Alex Turner

musician, guitarist, pianist and composer

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1986

Place of Birth: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Profession: singer, singer-songwriter, guitarist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Alex Turner

  • Alexander David Turner (born 6 January 1986) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
  • He is best known as the frontman and principal songwriter of the rock band Arctic Monkeys, with whom he has released six albums.
  • He has also recorded with his side project The Last Shadow Puppets and as a solo artist. Turner was born and raised in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, the only child of two secondary school teachers.
  • When he was 16, he and three friends formed Arctic Monkeys.
  • Their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), became the fastest-selling debut album in British history and was ranked at No.
  • 30 on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest debut albums of all time.
  • The band's subsequent studio albums, Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), Humbug (2009), Suck It and See (2011), AM (2013) and Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018), have experimented with desert rock, indie pop, R&B, and lounge music.
  • Arctic Monkeys headlined Glastonbury Festival in both 2007 and 2013, and performed during the 2012 London Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Turner and Miles Kane have released two orchestral pop albums – The Age Of The Understatement (2008) and Everything You've Come To Expect (2016) – as the co-frontmen of The Last Shadow Puppets.
  • Turner provided an acoustic soundtrack for the feature film Submarine (2010).
  • He co-wrote and co-produced Alexandra Savior's debut album, Belladonna of Sadness (2017). Turner's lyricism, ranging from kitchen sink realism to surrealist wordplay, has been widely praised.
  • Each of his eight studio albums have reached number one on the UK Album Chart.
  • He has won seven Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello Award, and has been nominated for the Mercury Prize five times, winning once.

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