46 Facts About Seal (musician)

Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel was born on 19 February 1963 and is an English singer, songwriter and record producer.

Seal is the recipient of three Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award, with 20 million albums or singles sold by October 2011.

Seal signed with record producer Trevor Horn's ZTT Records to release his eponymous debut studio album.

Seal served as a coach on The Voice Australia in 2012,2013, and 2017.

Seal was raised by a foster family in Westminster, London.

Seal received a two-year diploma in architecture and had various jobs in the London area.

Seal returned to England, sleeping on the couch of friend Julian Bunster, then a model.

Seal subsequently signed to ZTT Records and released his self-titled debut album in 1991.

Seal stole the show at the 1992 Brit Awards held at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, with the first hat-trick of wins in the history of the event.

Seal won in three categories: Best British Male, Best British Video and Best British Album.

In 1992, Seal appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD Red Hot + Dance, contributing an exclusive track "Crazy ".

Jeff Beck and Seal performed a cover of "Manic Depression" for the 1993 album Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix.

The official word was that Seal simply did not think it made the grade, although this conflicts with other reports, that said the album was turned down by the label because producers felt the album would not be commercially successful.

Since December 2006, Seal has indicated that he has plans to excerpt cuts from Togetherland and make them available for streaming download.

Meanwhile, Seal co-wrote and provided vocals for the hit single "My Vision" from Jakatta in 2002.

Seal recorded a successful duet with French singer Mylene Farmer called "Les Mots" during that same period.

Also in 2002, Seal lent his vocals to the song "You Are My Kind", the fourth track on Santana's album Shaman.

Also in 2004, Seal performed shows at the Olympia Theatre in Paris.

Unlike earlier recordings in which Seal is accompanied by his band, a full orchestra and choir of 52 musicians accompanies the singer.

Seal describes the album as more dance-oriented, apparently a return to the roots of his first album.

Seal performed "Amazing" and the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" at the 2007 Royal Variety Performance.

Seal performed "Amazing" at the 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in December, as well as the duet "Wedding Day" with his wife.

Seal appeared on the American Idol season-seven finale, singing with third-place contestant Syesha Mercado.

On 14 March 2009, Seal performed a song from the album and coached the participants on the "Top 9-Show" of the sixth season of the German TV show Deutschland sucht den Superstar.

On 7 November 2011, Seal released his second cover album of classic soul songs, Soul 2 through Reprise Records.

In October 2011, Seal was criticized by human-rights groups for appearing at an event in Grozny, Chechnya, that turned into a birthday celebration for Ramzan Kadyrov, the President of Chechnya.

Human Rights Watch sent an enquiry to Seal regarding his performance at the event and released a statement about the incident that said:.

Seal refused to apologise for appearing at the event, sending a message from his Twitter account telling people to "leave me out of your politics".

Seal was reported to have made $500,000 for singing at the party.

In 2012, Seal was one of the four vocal coaches in the first season of the Australian version of the reality singing competition The Voice.

Seal was the coach of the series winner Karise Eden.

Seal returned to The Voice season two, which debuted on 7 April 2013, where he became the winning coach , coaching eventual winner Harrison Craig.

Seal was cast as Pontius Pilate in Tyler Perry's musical rendition of The Passion, which aired on Fox on 20 March 2016.

Seal began work on a new album, initially entitled Let Yourself, produced again by Horn.

Seal later re-signed to Perfect Songs and had a two-week writing period in Horn's Los Angeles studio booked for October 2012.

On 10 September 2015, Seal announced that the album, now named 7, would be released on 6 November 2015.

In 2022, Seal launched his own limited-edition camera with Leica, a Q2 camera called Dawn, which is limited to 500 cameras.

Seal announced a North American tour in 2023 with Trevor Horn as the musical director, who doubles as the show opener with his band, The Buggles.

Seal released a new song, "All I Know is Now", produced by Horn, on 14 February 2025.

Seal first began dating German model Heidi Klum in February 2004, shortly after she announced her pregnancy and the end of her relationship with Italian Formula One team manager Flavio Briatore.

Seal proposed to Klum on 23 December 2004 in a quinzee he had built on a glacier in Whistler, British Columbia.

Seal has infinite amounts of love and patience for our kids.

Seal is her only father figure and he has praised Briatore for keeping his distance.

In late 2009, Seal officially adopted Klum's daughter and her last name was changed to Samuel.

Seal sang the 1986 Queen hit "Who Wants to Live Forever" and joined the rest of the acts for the all-star finale singing "We Are the Champions".

On 10 March 2012, Seal shared the stage with Kanye West, Soul Rebels Brass Band and Snoop Dogg at Brad Pitt's Night to Make It Right Foundation New Orleans after-party, hosted by comedian Aziz Ansari.