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Seal
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British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
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Seal, born Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel in Paddington, is a British male singer-songwriter and recording artist. He was born on February 19, 1963, and holds United Kingdom citizenship. His musical career spans genres including pop, rhythm and blues, soul, and electronica. He performs as a baritone and plays the guitar and voice. Seal has resided in London and Los Angeles and is signed to record labels such as ZTT Records, Reprise Records, and Sire.
He has received several awards, including the Grammy Award for Song of the Year, the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, and the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film. He has also been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Seal has a medical condition known as discoid lupus erythematosus.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Outlaw heroes in myth and history
- Dictionary of Australian Folklore and Myth
- Great Australian Places
- Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories
- Encyclopedia of Folk Heroes
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Film & TV
Paddington, London, England, UK
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963), known professionally as Seal, is a British singer of Nigerian and Afro-Brazilian heritage. He has sold over 20 million records worldwide. These include hit songs "Crazy" and "Killer", the latter of which went to number one in the UK, and his most celebrated song, "Kiss from a Rose", which was released in 1994. He is renowned for…
Known for
- Seal: Purpose — Self2026
- Micro Budget — Seal2026
- Dust to Dreams2025
- Seal - Baloise Session 2024 — Self2024
- Me Time — Seal2022
- Freddie Mercury: The Final Act — Self2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show2022
- Loot — Seal2022
- Seal Team — Seal Seal (voice)2021
- The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2019
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1963
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,783,914
- Total plays
- 24,133,716
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Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has received three Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards, and an MTV Video Music Award, with more than 20 million albums and singles sold. Seal signed with producer Trevor Horn's ZTT Records to release his eponymous debut studio album, "Seal" (1991). The album was a critical and commercial success, featuring the singles "Crazy" and "Killer" <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sea
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Paddington
- Spouse
- Heidi Klum
- Child
- Leni Klum
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Seal
- Genre
- house music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Sire
- Official website
- www.seal.com
- Image
- Seal 2012 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 1.92
- Residence
- Los Angeles
- Voice type
- baritone
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- Commons category
- Seal (musician)
- birth name
- Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel
- pseudonym
- Seal
- medical condition
- discoid lupus erythematosus
- date of birth
- 1963-02-19
- start of work period
- 1989-00-00
- name in native language
- Seal
- different from
- Seal
- social media followers
- 645000
- topic has template
- Template:Seal
- influenced by
- Stevie Wonder
- ancestral home
- Nigeria
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Encyclopedic overview
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (listen; born 19 February 1963), better known by his stage name Seal, is a British singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the recipient of three Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award, with more than 20 million albums or singles sold. He signed with record producer Trevor Horn's ZTT Records to release his eponymous debut studio album (1991). A critical and commercial success, it spawned the singles "Crazy" and "Killer", which peaked at numbers two and one on the UK singles chart, respectively, while both entered the US Billboard Hot 100. His 1994 single, "Kiss from a Rose", peaked atop the latter chart after its inclusion on the accompanying film soundtracks for The NeverEnding Story III and Batman Forever.
"Kiss from a Rose" spawned from Seal's second eponymous studio album (1994), which peaked atop the UK Albums Chart along with its predecessor. His following albums—Human Being (1998), Seal IV (2003), System (2007), Soul (2008), Seal 6: Commitment (2010), Soul 2 (2011), 7 (2015) and Standards (2017)—were each met with critical praise. As a songwriter, Seal has won two Ivor Novello Awards for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically" by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for "Killer" and "Crazy".
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