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Guy Sebastian Research Paper

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36 year old, R&B pop, singer-songwriter Guy Theodore Sebastian was born in Klang, Malaysia. He is the second oldest of four sons. His older brother Ollie was born in India, then 10 years later, the family decided to migrate to Australia in 1988 after his younger brothers Chris and Jeremy were born. They lived in Melbourne, Victoria for several years before moving to Adelaide, South Australia due to his father’s work. Guy’s interest in music started at a young age. He took violin lessons and later self taught himself the guitar, drums, piano and by the age of 14, he started singing.
Music Career
In December 2003, Guy Sebastian’s first album “Just As I Am” released and immediately achieved number one on the album charts. In the first week 165,000 copies were sold and scored the second highest one week sales in Australian chart history. By now, Australian’s recognized the young man with his afro hair, incredible singing voice and songwriting abilities was a talented step for the world stage. He also became the first male Australian to win the first season of Australian Idol, also in 2003. In 2007, Sebastian won the publicly voted ‘Fav Aussie’ at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards in Sydney for the third consecutive year. In 2008/2009 Guy moved to the US to record his 5th studio album. He spent time in LA recording …show more content…

Guy had also performed his hit single ‘Battle Scars feat. Lupe Fiasco’ also for the first time on the X Factor stage. He received the 2011 ‘Urban Work of the Year’ for ‘Who’s That Girl’ feat. American rapper Eve. Following years after, Guy then performed the song in New York on the Late Show with David Letterman on the 27th September 2012 and again in early 2013 with Lupe on both ‘The Late Night Shows with Jimmy Fallon and

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