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Bryan Adams to sing in Colombo
The live two hour concert of the Canadian Rock star Bryan Adams will come alive in Colombo on February 10 at CR & FC Grounds at 7.30 pm. He will be coming to Colombo from Bangalore after mega concerts at Palace Ground on February 8 and Mittal Garden in New Delhi on February 7. The star will leave Colombo for Dubai and Amman in Jordan for two more concerts on February 11 and 14 respectively in Asian arm of his 2003/2004 World Tour.

Though the Indian evet producers Showdiff Worldwide and Rapport Global Evet announced the Colombo Concert in a press briefing at the Galle Face Hotel last week, the official website of the Star shows the Colombo Concert is not confirmed yet.

The tickets prices are not yet decided and the sponsores too are not finalised yet , theproducers said at the press conference. According to them, the Star will be accompanied by 25 strong backing orchestra and there will be no opening act and it will be just Bryan Adams songs for two hours.

Kingston, Ontario-born Bryan Adams (b. Nov. 1959), is one of the busiest singer-songwriters in the music industry. He has enjoyed major success on three levels: as a songwriter who’s written hits for other artistes; as a recording artiste whose own work has met huge international acclaim; and as a captivating live performer, whose memorable appearances at Live-Aid and on Amnesty International’s Conspiracy Of Hope tour helped cement his status as an international superstar.

Adams’s first major hit came in 1983, with his own version of a track he had written three years earlier. “Straight From The Heart” had, in fact, appeared in very similar form on singer lan Lloyd’s 1980 album 3WC (as did, for that matter, the Adams/Vallance song “Lonely Nights”). From Adams’s third album, the pivotal Cuts Like A Knife. “Straight” soared to the top 10 and led the way for two more hits, “Cuts Like A Knife” and “This Time” In what must have been harrowing for Adams - but inarguably productive - the singer spent 283 full days on the road in ’83, promoting the album and, clearly, himself as a performing property.

Further notice that Adams had internationally arrived came via his July ’85 Live-Aid performance, viewed by millions; Adams’s energetic duet with Tina Turner on “it’s Only Love” - the Reckless single was later nudged up the charts to No. 15. Also keeping Adams in the international spotlight was his work on 1985’s Ethiopian famine relief single “Tears Are Not Enough”, by Canadian superstar group Northern Lights.

Adams would later have massive success with the singles” “All For Love” a platinum track sung with Sting and Rod Stewart, from the Three Musketeers soundtrack - and the 1995 No. 1 hit “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?” He released On a Day Like Today in October of 1998, MTV unplugged in 1999 and The Best Of Me in 2000 to commemorate his 22 years of song writing and performing. His latest album of songs was released in 2002 from the Dreamworks Animated film Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimmaron.

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