Simon Webbe

Simon Webbe (born 30 March 1979 in Moss Side, Manchester, England) is a music singer, writer, manager.

Simon Webbe originally started his career out with British boy-band Blue. The band also featured Lee Ryan (a fellow solo star), Duncan James (TV's Dancing On Ice), Antony Costa (TV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!). All of the songs that Blue recorded on their 3 albums were written by members of the group, with the exception of the very few covers of old songs. Most of the songs are actually written by all four of them.

The band burst in to the scene in 2001 with their number one album All Rise and its subsequent singles "All Rise" (#4), "Too Close "(#1), "If You Come Back" (#1) & "Fly By II" (#6).

In 2002 follow-up album One Love saw the band reach the height of their fame peaking at number one, selling 3 million copies in the UK alone and featuring the singles "One Love" (#3), "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word feat.Elton John" (#1) & "U Make Me Wanna" (#4).

Simon launched his post-Blue career on the 22 August 2005 with his first solo single "Lay Your Hands" which peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart.

His follow up single "No Worries" established Simon as a solo star, reaching #4 in the UK and making him the only Blue member to have multiple top ten singles.

After the release of two singles Simon finally released his long awaited debut solo album Sanctuary which debuted at #28 on the UK Album Charts. Despite its relatively low debut it eventually reached #7 on the charts and to this date has gone double-platinum.