About Grant Nicholas
Grantley Jonathan Nicholas (born 12 November 1967) is a Welsh musician and the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Feeder. In 2014, Nicholas released his debut solo album Yorktown Heights. In the following year, a released a mini-album titled Black Clouds. As frontman of Feeder, he has gained three platinum-certified albums, three gold-certified and one silver-certified album, two Kerrang awards, a Brit Award nomination, twenty top 40 singles, two silver-certified singles, one gold-certified single, one platinum-certified single and an induction into the Kerrang Radio Hall of Fame. In school, Nicholas played the trumpet, and joined his first band, Sweet Leaf (named after a song by Black Sabbath, who were his favourite band in his school years, and the first he saw play live, at the Colston Hall in Bristol). Original singer Paul Ford left, leading to Nicholas being recruited from local band Silent Partner: the latter re-recorded the previously laid-down vocals, while re-writing some lyrics to suit his style.
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