Rob Halford

Rob Halford is simply one of the greatest rock vocalists who ever lived, and I say that without a shred of hyperbole. The man fronted Judas Priest from 1973 onward and essentially co-invented what heavy metal looks and sounds like — the leather, the studs, the roaring motorbike entrance onstage, all his doing. But strip away the theater and you're still left with one of the most jaw-dropping voices in the business: a multi-octave range that can go from a menacing growl to a glass-shattering shriek in the same breath. When he publicly came out as gay in 1998, he did it on his own terms, and metal — a genre not always known for open arms — largely embraced him. The 2010 Grammy for Best Metal Performance was long overdue. Watching him still belt it out well into his seventies is honestly humbling.

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Name (English)

Rob Halford

Name (Japanese)

ロブ・ハルフォード

Reading

ろぶ・はるふぉーど

Born

August 25, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer / songwriter / composer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

• Official sitehttp://www.robhalford.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/robhalfordlegacy/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Halford
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271576

Tags

• singer
• songwriter
• composer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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