Michael Ball's role introduction

MichaelAshleyBall, 1962, was born on June 27th near Stratford-upon-Avon, England. 1984 After graduating from Guildford School of Action Performing Arts, Michael really began to shine in his acting career. Although Michael has not received orthodox vocal training before, his innate perfect singing and acting talent doomed him to shine on the stage in the future!

Chinese name: Michael Ball.

Michael Ball

Nationality: UK

Place of birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, England

Date of birth:1June 27th, 962.

Occupation: actor, singer

Graduate School: guildford Performing Arts School.

Representative works: TheMusicals, AloneTogether.

Major achievements: Michael released his highly anticipated debut solo album "Michael Ball".

Character experience

MichaelAshleyBall, 1962, was born on June 27th near Stratford-upon-Avon, England. 1984 After graduating from Guildford School of Action Performing Arts, Michael really began to shine in his acting career. Although Michael has not received orthodox vocal training before, his innate perfect singing and acting talent doomed him to shine on the stage in the future! As soon as he graduated, Michael got a precious opportunity to perform in the church. A few months later, he appeared in the operetta ThePiratesofPenzance at the Manchester Opera House. It was because of this opportunity that Michael was discovered by CameronMackintosh, the producer of Ace Musical. After watching Michael Ball's performance, McIntosh invited him to audition for Marius, the second leading actor in the new musical Les Miserables. Since then, there has been another musician on the stage in West End of London.

1985, Michael played Marius in the West End of London premiere of the musical Les Miserables, which was immediately recognized by the audience and is still regarded as the best actor in Marius. Later, Michael recorded the London version and the full play version of Les Miserables. At the 10th anniversary concert of Les Miserables held in 1995 Real Albert Hall, Michael once again showed his unique stage charm as Marius.

Michael Ball's rapid popularity caught the attention of another British music master, AnrewLloydWebber. 1987, he played the talented boy Raul in West End of London Weber's famous musical THEPHANTOMOFTHEOPERA.

From 65438 to 0989, Michael starred in Weber's new play ASPECTSOFLOVE, which also became a major turning point in his future career. Michael's role of Alex in the play received rave reviews. After the release of the single "Love Can Change Everything", it quickly reached the sales of silver records, which not only topped the charts of British songs, but also made Michael Ball a household name in Britain. After winning the VarietyClub's Most Promising Art Award in 1990, Michael landed on Broadway for the first time as the leading actor Alex, showing a "love view" to a strange Broadway audience.

After returning from new york, Michael decided to leave the music stage temporarily to plan his solo album, and made great progress in his personal career. 1992 Michael took his new song "OneStepOutofTime" and was selected to represent Britain in EurovisionSongContest, which attracted the attention of 600 million viewers around the world and won the second place. After returning home in triumph, Michael released his highly anticipated debut solo album "MichaelBall", which won the first place in the UK charts in one fell swoop in the first week. Even from such a high starting point, up to now, all Michael's solo albums have at least maintained gold record sales. Then, Michael began his first tour in England. Wherever he went, the concert tickets were sold out quickly and the scene was hot.

1993 Michael and the famous soprano BarbaraBonney recorded the album "WestSideStory" and released the second solo album "Always" in the same year. 1994 can be described as a year of rapid development of Michael Ball's career. The third solo album "OneCarefulOwner" reached the gold record sales within three days after its release, which was amazing. Only two years later, Michael's first solo album was reissued with a brand-new name "TheBestofMichaelBall" and a brand-new cover. As for sales volume, do you still need to doubt it? In the past two years, Michael cooperated with ITV and owned his own TV program "MichalBallShow". In this program, MichalBall invited many famous people in the music industry, such as cliff richard, elaine paige, Take That, BeeGees, Cher, JamesBrown and so on.

From 65438 to 0995, Michael tried the big screen for the first time, starring in his first film, England, My England, as HenryPucell, a famous English composer in the Baroque period.

1996, MichaelBall finally decided to return to the music stage after four years' absence, and played Giorgio in StephenSondheim's musical Passion. Michael Ball's joining undoubtedly adds a lot of color to the enthusiasm. Michael has also contributed to many awards won by enthusiasm. For the performance of Enthusiasm, although Michael was busy on the stage for several months, he still took time out of his busy schedule to produce a solo album TheMusicals, which was well received by fans.

From 65438 to 0998, Michael held many concerts and was invited as a special guest performer in various music celebrations. These include "Weber's 50th Birthday Concert", "Hi, Mr. Producer" charity concert and "SondheimTonight" held at the Barbican Center. At the end of the year, Michael prepared another surprise for his fans. The album "TheMovies" set a new record and became Michael's first platinum-selling solo album. Soon, he won the Best Recording Artist Award from the British Variety Club. The British drama fan club also awarded him the most popular musical actor award.

During 1999-2000, Michael Ball released several solo records and held several sensational concert tours in Britain, Ireland, Kuala Lumpur, the United States and European countries. After voting by tens of thousands of fans, Michael was selected as the highest honor of the most popular musical actor in the past 265,438+0 years by Theatrigoer's Club. However, Michael should not only be a talented singer and actor, but also prove to everyone that he is also an excellent songwriter. The songs he tried to write for himself, such as Other People's Dreams, Light Cars, Just in Time, Gone for Never, have already become classic nostalgic songs in the minds of fans.

The year of 200 1 marked that Michael crossed the ocean and reached a higher peak of his career. Michael finally realized his long-cherished wish and held a concert in LyricTheatre in Sydney. This is his first time to sing in Australia. Unprecedented performance and enthusiastic Australian fans successfully opened up the Australian market for Michael, and many of Michael's records were released in the local area soon. Then Michael's tour plan in Australia also entered the planning stage. Then, Michael was invited by Samdes (director of the Oscar-winning film American Beauty) to perform a one-act play together to celebrate the disaster. On the dark stage and lonely piano, Michael played and sang with dark emotions from beginning to end. Michael's subversion of the image of sunshine in the past immediately caused an uproar in the critics. At this time, praise and criticism came at him together.

After a controversial solitude, in April 2002, as expected, Michael returned to the stage in West End of London after six years' absence. But to everyone's surprise, this time Michael appeared as a lovely figure in the children's musical ChittyChittyBangBang-Caractacus Potts, an inventor full of whimsy. Michael once again became the focus of attention of the audience. In this musical full of laughter, he danced for the first time! Although Michael has repeatedly said modestly that his dancing skill is average, you can clearly see from all kinds of comments and the happy expressions of the audience that they are completely impressed by Michael Ball's "pioneering work" again.

In July 2003, Michael reluctantly ended his trip to ChittyChittyBangBang, making final preparations for his UK tour in May 438+10, and recording a new album.

In 2005, Michael challenged himself again, taking the place of Michael Patrick to play the villain Count Fosco in AndrewLloydWebber's new play The Woman in White.

Performance experience

Gospel of GODSPELL (1984), Judas, John the Baptist /Aberystwyth, Pirates of Walesthepiratesof Panzance (1984), Frederick, ManchesterLESMISERABLES Opera House, Les Miserables (1985). Palace Theatre, Phantom of London Opera House (1987), Raoul/Hermanjester Theatre, Donas Pecksov (1989), Alex's original London cast/PrincipeFWalestheat in London, Pecksov (1990) in Donas, London.

Personal photo album

Michael Ball (1992)

Always (1993)

onecareflowner( 1994)

TheBestofMichaelBall( 1994)

First love (1996)

Music (1996)

Movie (1998)

incocerttotherayalberthall( 1999)

Christmas (1999)

This time ... it's personal (2000)

Center Stage (200 1)

Idreamedreamm(2003)

In 2003

Music (2005)

One Voice (2006)

Back-to-back (2007)