Will Young
Will Young
William Robert "Will" Youngis an English singer-songwriter and actor who came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the British music contest Pop Idol, making him the first winner of the worldwide Idol franchise. His double A-sided debut single "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" was released two weeks after the show's finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in fifth place in World Idol performing his single "Light My Fire"...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth20 January 1979
CityWokingham, England
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.
Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.
Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
Learning from other people is what music is all about.
Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?
Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.
Was he a doper or was he just a loser?
I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.
I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.
I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.