James Blunt

What fascinates me about James Blunt is the gap between the man and the myth. Most people file him under that one impossibly tender ballad, but I keep coming back to the fact that before the piano there was a British Army captain who served in the aftermath of Kosovo. That tension, between someone who has stood in a war zone and someone who can write about heartbreak so nakedly, gives his music a weight the radio edit never conveys. A Bristol graduate turned soldier turned songwriter is a stranger, richer story than the charts suggest, and I think it deserves a second listen.

Name (English)

James Blunt

Name (Japanese)

ジェームス・ブラント

Reading

じぇーむす・ぶらんと

Born

February 22, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Tiger

Origin

Tidworth, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer-songwriter / songwriter / composer / singer / pianist

University

University of Bristol

Awards & achievements

• 2006 NRJ Music Award for International Revelation of the Year

• Official sitehttps://www.jamesblunt.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jamesblunt/
• Xhttps://x.com/JamesBlunt
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Blunt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130799

Tags

• singer-songwriter
• songwriter
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.