Blake

Related links

• Download 'Blake' on iTunes
• Buy 'Together' from Amazon
• Blake's official website

Biography

The operatic boy band Blake had never sung together before they gave an impromptu performance at a house party after meeting on the social networking site Facebook.

Realizing that they had something special vocally they approached manager of Blue and the Fron Male Voice Choir, Daniel Glatman, who secured them a record deal with Universal Music and virtually over night a crossover classical success was born.

Bridging the gap between pop and opera they took the music industry by storm with their debut album ‘Blake' which went straight to Number One in the Official Classical Album Chart in November 2007 and hit the top 20 of the UK Pop Album Chart.  

Their popularity with the UK's public was soon apparent, within three weeks the album had attained Gold status in the UK and in May 2008 they found themselves at the Royal Albert Hall receiving the public voted Album of the Year Award at the Classical BRITS.

In 2008 their second album 'And So It Goes' was released and instantly reached Number 12 in the UK album charts and Number 1 in the Australian Classical chart. They toured the UK on their own headline tour and performed on tour with Katherine Jenkins.  

2009 was a year of change for Blake. At the start of the year, one of the group's founding members Dominic Tighe left to pursue an acting career. With a UK tour imminent, the boys wasted no time and advertised their search for a new singer on the micro-blogging website Twitter. Two weeks and 55,000 followers later, the band found classically trained opera singer Humphrey Berney, who had previously recorded with Hayley Westenra.

The boys also started up their own record label Blake Records, and released their third album 'Together'.

Blake's celebrity fans include Dame Shirley Bassey, Keira Knightley, Kevin Spacey and Princes William and Harry.

Discography

2009 - Together

2008 - And So It Goes

2007 - Blake