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Bellamy also won the Sexiest Male Award at the 2007 NME Awards. [39] He won again in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014 and was nominated in 2012. Bellamy, however, declared himself "too short to be sexy" (he is 5' 7"), and said the award should have gone to Dominic Howard, Muse's drummer. Bellamy also won the "Hero of the Year" award at the 2012 ...
53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. Read more about Matthew Bellamy GRAMMY History and other GRAMMY-winning and GRAMMY-nominated artists on GRAMMY.com.
Muse have been nominated twelve times at the BRIT Awards, receiving two awards; both were for "Best Live Act", in 2005 and 2007. The band received seven awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards, winning both "Best Alternative Act" (in 2004 & 2006) and "Best UK & Irish Act" (in 2004 & 2007). The album Black Holes and Revelations received numerous ...
muse.mu. Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of Matt Bellamy (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Chris Wolstenholme (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion). Muse released their debut album, Showbiz, in 1999, showcasing Bellamy's falsetto and a melancholic ...
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Matthew Bellamy was born in Cambridge on the 9th June 1978 and moved to Devon with his family at the age of 10. Matthew’s dad, George Bellamy was in a band called The Tornadoes, who were the first band from the UK to get a US number 1 record.[source?] At the age of 13 Matthew’s parents got divorced.[source?] "It was ok at home, middle class, we had...
Style
Matthew Bellamy is the driving force behind Muse’s lyrical and musical composition. Popular devices he uses are singing with vibrato and in falsetto ("Supermassive Black Hole," "Knights of Cydonia," "Ruled by Secrecy," "Micro Cuts," and "Showbiz," among others), arpeggiations ("Take a Bow," "Starlight," "Butterflies & Hurricanes," "Ruled by Secrecy," "New Born," "Bliss," "Space Dementia" and "Blockades" among others), and large or octave jumps in melody lines ("Map of the Problematique," "Sto...
Lyrics
Bellamy's lyrical writing is relatively simple but his subject matters are usually not - world events, the end of the world, hyperspace, technology, religion, George Orwell's '1984' (for 'Resistance'), among other subjects.Many of his main ideas are set in a dystopian future, in which totalitarian governments control every aspect of private and public behavior, maintaining their power with political and forceful tactics such as widespread surveillance, state controlled media, etc. Freedom is...
Vocal range
Often quoted as a tenor, Matt Bellamy's complete vocal range spans from G♯2 to C♯6, covering approximately 3½ octaves. Bellamy is known for singing in a high falsetto, even in popular songs like Plug In Baby, Time Is Running Out, and Knights of Cydonia. His studio recordings generally top out at G♯5, in Showbiz, Micro Cuts, and more recently, Survival. Though he does reach A5s in Dead Star and Hyper Music, they are placed in the background and difficult to hear. During live performances howev...
In 2019, almost 10 years after Matt's first solo song was released and used in the credits of The International, Matt released Pray. As of 2020, Bellamy focused greatly on his solo work, releasing his original work (including segway pieces used during the Simulation Theory Tour and later during the Simulation Theory Film), an acoustic cover of Unin...
Coldplay's song Politik, from their album A Rush of Blood to the Head was produced with some of his piano help. Matt, alongside Muse, also wrote and arranged Adam Lambert's song Soaked. In May of 2014, it was revealed that Matt worked with New Zealand indie pop recording artist Kimbra (known for collaborating with Gotye) on her new album The Golden...
Family
Bellamy's father is George Bellamy, former rhythm guitarist of The Tornadoes. Bellamy's mother is Marylin Bellamy, who left Ireland for England during the 1970s. George Bellamy's brother was shot and killed in Northern Ireland some time during the 1960s or 1970s under suspicious circumstances. He was a soldier of the British Army, but the IRA never owned up to his death (as they usually did) and no conclusion was ever came to. Rumors were abound that he was a member of the SAS, and the suspic...
Religion
Bellamy has shown signs of atheism: "Being an atheist means you have to realize that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music".[source?] In 2000 Bellamy stated that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was "extremely cool" to have been able to deceive people into believing she remained a virgin after conc...
Miscellany
Bellamy watched Road Runner when he was around 4 years of age. He claims that the way the Road Runner tortured the Coyote constantly without self consequence "got" to him. Bellamy avoids 'hard' drugs, due to his experience of their effects on those around him. Bellamy moved into a flat with a drug dealer at the age of 18. He described the flat as looking like "a scene from Trainspotting, white powders and mirrors and tin foil everywhere." He did however use mushrooms containing psilocybin "to...
Matt made a twitter account which was first named http://www.twitter.com/muse_MattB which then changed to http://www.twitter.com/Bellamy_Matt and subsequently to http://www.twitter.com/MattBellamy...
Caravan cleanerPainter and decorator - with his mate Jake.RockstarShepherdWine Seller (along with Kate Hudson)Sep 19, 2023 · Success has brought with it the expected rock-star trappings: mantelpieces groaning under awards trophies (from Brits to Grammys to a prestigious Ivor Novello), Hollywood wives (Bellamy is married to actress Kate Hudson; they have a one-year-old child) and, in the case of the ursine Wolstenholme, a battle with alcoholism (he subsequently conquered his addiction, writing and singing two songs ...
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Matthew Bellamy, along with his band, has won two Grammys, both for ‘Best Rock Album’, for the albums ‘The Resistance’ in 2011 and ‘Drones’ in 2016. The band has won several other awards as well, including two Brit Awards, five MTV Europe Music Awards, and four Kerrang! Awards.
