Robbie Williams was born on February 13,1974 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. His career started as a dancer and singer of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to launch his solo career. After leaving Take That, Robbie Williams launched his solo career starting things off in 1996 by covering George Michael’s "Freedom", the single reached number-two in the UK Singles Chart, twenty-six places higher than George Michael’s original. In 1997 Robbie Williams released his debut album, Life thru a Lens. The album peaked at the top of the charts in the U.K. and has since gone platinum eight times over. Robbie Williams has since released six more albums with sales well over fifty-five million units. He has been the recipient of many awards, including ten BRIT and six ECHO awards. In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, after being voted as the Greatest artist of the 1990s. Robbie Williams entered in The Guinness Book of World Records when he announced his World Tour for 2006, selling 1.6 million tickets in one single day. He appears in the list of the all-time Top 100 biggest selling albums in the United Kingdom six times.
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