Paul Roberts (musician)
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Paul Roberts (born 31 December 1959 in
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,
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) is an
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singer who was the lead singer of
The Stranglers The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene. Scoring 23 UK top 40 singles and 19 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving bands to have origina ...
between 1990 and 2006.


Career


The Stranglers

Roberts replaced
Hugh Cornwell Hugh Alan Cornwell (born 28 August 1949) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and writer, best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990. Since leaving the ...
in The Stranglers in 1990 and appeared on and co-wrote their studio albums '' Stranglers In the Night'', '' About Time'', ''
Written in Red ''Written in Red'' is the thirteenth studio album recorded by the Stranglers, released in January 1997 through the When! label. It was co-produced by Gang of Four's Andy Gill. The media launch-party for ''Written in Red'' was held on 13 Dec ...
'', '' Coup de Grace'' and '' Norfolk Coast''. Roberts performed live as a non-playing frontman as The Stranglers recruited guitarist John Ellis and later Baz Warne to co-replace Cornwell, who sang vocals and played guitar. Roberts left
The Stranglers The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene. Scoring 23 UK top 40 singles and 19 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving bands to have origina ...
after almost 16 years (believed to be longer than his predecessor, according to press quotes from his former colleagues) in May 2006. The split was officially described as "amicable." The band reverted to a four-piece, with Warne taking over lead vocals and
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returning to singing songs on which he had originally provided lead vocals.


Solo / Faith Band / Soulsec

As a side project to The Stranglers, Roberts also played and recorded as Paul Roberts, Paul Roberts and The Faith Band and The Faith Band, who post Stranglers changed to Soulsec. Releases included the albums ''Faith?'' (Paul Roberts, 1999], ''Self Discovery'' (Paul Roberts and The Faithband, 2001), ''The Pressure Sensitive'' (The Faithband, 2003) and ''End Games'' (Soulsec, 2007). Also the singles "God", "When Reason Sleeps", "8 Days" and "Swim". There have also been several acoustic guitar, acoustic/electric live and compilation CDs.


Other work

In 1994 Roberts sang on
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's (ex- OMD members
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, Martin Cooper and
Malcolm Holmes Malcolm Holmes (born 28 July 1960 in Birkenhead, England) is a British drummer. He is best known for being the original drummer with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Biography Holmes’ first drumming sessions were for the Id, who included ...
) album ''Still Life'' on the track "Somebody Somewhere". Roberts played the role of Pop Larkin in the world premiere of ''Perfick: The Darling Buds of May Musical''. This was a musical based on
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' novel '' The Darling Buds of May'', written by David Burton, formerly a member of the cast of ''
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''. The show ran for a week in April 2008 at The
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as a trial to see whether the company could raise enough interest to finance a West End production. The show did not open on the West End. In 2008, Roberts played the Roman poet Ovid in the play ''The Art of Love'' alongside
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of
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in London, the lead role in
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's ''Mephistopheles Smith: the Evangelist from Hell'' at the
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in 2007, 16 characters in a two-hour workshop of ''The Unimportant History of Britain'' in London in 2008. Also in 2008, Roberts was asked by
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to play John Barsad in a new musical adaptation of ''
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'' at the Gatehouse Theatre, London, and was offered the lead in ''Gold'', a fringe musical based on old school friends getting their school band back together after twenty-five years apart. Roberts has appeared in the television series Cranford as a featured character alongside
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and
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and has collaborated with actor Stephen Donald ('' Blood Brothers'', ''
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'') in the north of England. Paul appears at the beginning of the first
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movie. In 2010, Roberts performed as
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alongside Laura Nixon's
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and Suspiciously Elvis at sell-out shows at ''Alive & Swinging'' in
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,
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. In 2016, Roberts co-created the show ''Let's Dance'' with Worldwide Entertainment, paying tribute to
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. The show has played dates across the
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, in
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,
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and in
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, presented by the British Theatre Playhouse.


Personal life

In December 2005, he was involved in a car crash in which his car was thrown into the air and landed upside down. He escaped without injury. Roberts is an avid fundraiser for a
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charity.


References


External links


Soulsec on MySpace
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