Seal

Seal info & bio

Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963) is a British singer, songwriter, and record producer. With 20 million records sold by October 2011, Seal is the recipient of three Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards, and an MTV Video Music Award. He signed with record producer Trevor Horn's ZTT Records to release his eponymous debut studio album (1991). Met with critical and commercial success, it spawned the singles "Crazy" and "Killer", which peaked at numbers two and one on the UK singles chart, respectively, while entering the US Billboard Hot 100. His 1994 single, "Kiss from a Rose", peaked atop the latter chart after its inclusion on the film soundtracks for The NeverEnding Story III and Batman Forever.

"Kiss from a Rose" spawned from Seal's second eponymous studio album (1994), which peaked atop the UK Albums Chart along with its predecessor. His following albums—Human Being (1998), Seal IV (2003), System (2007), Soul (2008), Seal 6: Commitment (2010), Soul 2 (2011), 7 (2015), and Standards (2017)—were each met with critical praise. As a songwriter, Seal has won two Ivor Novello Awards for Best Song Musically and Lyrically from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for "Killer" and "Crazy".

He served as a coach on The Voice Australia in 2012 and 2013, and returned to Australia to work as a coach in 2017.