Rob Thomas

As the lead singer and primary songwriter for Matchbox 20, Rob Thomas found achievement with a mixture of ’70s rock and roll influences, slick hooks, and ’90s post-grunge crunch. The Florida-based music group broke through in 1996 with “Drive” rather than looked back again, issuing solitary after solitary, scoring hits in a variety of radio types, and viewing their debut LP, Yourself or Somebody Like You, proceed platinum 12 occasions over in the U.S. Thomas himself received numerous songwriting honours as the scribe of such Matchbox strikes as “REAL LIFE,” “IF YOU ARE Eliminated,” “Bent,” and “Mad Time of year,” and he later on parlayed that achievement into a profession like a single designer. Rob Thomas was created Feb 14, 1972, with an Military bottom in Landstuhl, Germany. His parents divorced, as well as the ex-Army brat spent the majority of his youth in SC and Florida. After falling out of senior high school at 17, he bounced throughout the South performing in pickup rock and roll rings before relocating to Orlando in 1993. There, he helped type the music group Tabitha’s Top secret, a precursor to Matchbox Twenty. However the group appreciated some regional achievement, Thomas eventually still left the lineup with bassist Brian Yale and drummer Paul Doucette in tow, as well as the departing music artists produced Matchbox Twenty with guitarists Adam Gaynor and Kyle Make. The band’s multi-platinum debut, Yourself or Somebody Like You, set up Matchbox Twenty being a superstar action, but Thomas wasn’t separately well known. That transformed when Thomas co-wrote the chart-topping solitary “Clean” for the Carlos Santana recording Supernatural. “Clean” was ubiquitous in 1999, and it produced Thomas a celebrity. The track required house three Grammys, like the desired Song of the entire year award, and Thomas got on People’s Many Gorgeous People list. In the mean time, he also wedded model Marisol Maldonado. Mad Time of year (2000) and A LOT MORE THAN YOU IMAGINE You Are (2002) continuing Matchbox Twenty’s achievement, but after many years of touring to get both information, the bandmembers determined they needed a rest, and Thomas utilized the hiatus to create and record his initial single record. When “Depressed FORGET ABOUT” debuted in early 2005, its modern and funky dance-pop audio was nearer to Justin Timberlake than Matchbox, and it helped mix up expectation for the Apr release from the chart-topping Something to become. In 2007, Thomas reunited with Matchbox Twenty for many tour dates as well as the release from the band’s retrospective collection Exile on Mainstream. Then shipped his 2009 sophomore single work, Cradlesong, which debuted at number 3 over the Billboard 200 graph. Three years afterwards, he was once more back again with Matchbox Twenty for the group’s 4th studio record, North. In 2015, Thomas released his third single LP, THE FANTASTIC Unknown. The record contained many collaborations like the one “Trust You,” that was co-written and made by OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder.