1959年,Bryan Adams出生于加拿大温哥华.16岁那年,他离开了学校和他的第一个乐队Shock四处旅行演出.

　　1977年他加入了一个小有名气的glam-rock乐队Sweeny Todd.参与制做完乐队的两张专辑后,在经纪人Bruce Allen和词曲人Jim Vallance的劝说下,Bryan Adams开始了自己的个人演唱阶段.

　　1980年,他出版了第一张个人同名专辑,但即使在他的家乡,这张专辑也没有引起多大的反响,但随后他于1981年推出的"You Want It, You Got It"确使他在加拿大北方成了一名真正的明星,这张专辑也产生了四首加拿大排行榜上榜单曲.
Bryan Adams1983年的专辑"Cuts Like a Knife"第一次真正打入巨大的美国市场,并在不到一年的时间内达到黄金销量.随着单曲"Straight From The Heart"登上公告牌单曲排行榜的第十名以及几首热门单曲在MTV电视台的播放,Bryan Adams从美国开始了他历经欧洲,日本,澳大利亚等国的世界巡回演唱会.

　　1984年,人们期望值很高的专辑"Reckless"出版发行,单曲"Heaven"拿到了美国榜的冠军,同时六首单曲打入了加拿大排行榜.到了年底,"Reckless"在美国专辑榜上获得两周冠军 ,而Bryan Adams也获得了好几项Juno奖(这是加拿大的葛莱美).Bryan Adams的下一张专辑"Into The Fire"于1987年出版,结果只卖出了一百万张.在这之后的一年半时间里,Bryan Adams和他的乐队不停的在美国,欧洲和日本巡回演出,甚至在当时尚未统一的民主德国举办了演唱会.

　　1988年,这位相貌英俊的流行歌星出演了他第一部电影,Client Eastwood导演的"Pink Cadillac".再此后的若干几年里面,Bryan Adams不停的忙于参加各种慈善演出,参与制做了Motley Crue的一张专辑,同时他也在为其下一张专辑做准备.由于歌迷对Bryan Adams专辑的热切盼望,他在90年柏林墙群星演唱会上翻唱Pink Floyd的一首"Young Lust"居然也被推上了排行榜.

　　到了1991年6月,Bryan Adams为电影"Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"所做的主题曲"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"出版.这首歌就像导弹一样直冲排行榜,第一周就占据了美国和加拿大排行榜的冠军宝座,并被预先订购了三十八万张,这也破了A&M唱片公司的销售纪录.作为美国历史上第二成功的单曲(仅次于We Are The World "),它也加速了Bryan Adams新专辑的出版.

　　1991年七月,Bryan Adams发行新一张专辑"Waking Up The Neighbours".这张专辑迅速登上英国专辑榜第一并创纪录的保持了十六个星期,两个月内这张专辑疯狂销售了五百五十万张,并且在十个国家拿到冠军.带目前为止,这张专辑在世界范围内的销量已经远远突破了一千万张.接着下来Bryan Adams花了几乎三年进行他的世界巡回演出.而A&M唱片公司于1993年发行了他的一张精选专辑,这张精选集由于那首冠军单曲"Please Forgive Me"而卖出了一千三百万张.在同一年,Bryan Adams和Sting以及Rod Stewart为电影"三个火枪手"录制的"All For Love"也成了排行榜上的大赢家.

　　1994年中,一张以前只在日本发行的演唱会唱片"Live!Live!Live!"在全世界范围内发行.

　　1995年,Bryan Adams又推出了一首电影主题曲"Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman".此单曲在美国榜冠军位置上停留了四个星期.

　　1996年底,Bryan Adams推出了专辑"18 Till I Die".在这张专辑里,为了迎合年轻歌迷的口味,Bryan Adams的音乐风格开始趋向于更为激烈.象往常一样,从1996年到1997年,Bryan Adams又开始了他马拉松式的世界巡回演出.到了1998年秋季,Bryan Adams推出"On a Day Like Today".

　　BORN: November 5, 1959, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

　　Bryan Adams was one of the most popular mainstream rock & rollers to emerge in the '80s, producing a series of platinum albums and Top Ten hits. Adams wasn't an innovator on the level of Bruce Springsteen, or even John Cougar Mellencamp. He followed in their footsteps, smoothing out their rougher edges while retaining a down-to-earth earnestness in both his straightforward rock & roll and his husky voice. At the beginning of his career, he relied more on rock than pop, but as his career progressed, he became known for his ballads. But both his rockers and his slow numbers were the result of his craftsmanship, both as a writer and a performer -- Adams never let anything obscure a good hook.

　　Born in Canada, Adams began his career as a songwriting partner of Jim Vallence, a former member of Prism. Vallence and Adams wrote songs for several Canadian rockers, including Loverboy and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as well as Bonnie Tyler and Kiss. Adams landed a solo record contract with A&M Records in 1981, releasing an eponymous album by the end of year; it failed to make the charts. The following year, he released You Want It, You Got It, which managed to reach the U.S. charts.

　　Bryan Adams' commercial breakthrough came in 1983 with Cuts Like a Knife. "Straight from the Heart," a ballad taken from the record, reached the Top Ten before the album was released. The album also made it into the Top Ten, while the title track peaked at number 15; a third single, "This Time," reached number 24.

　　Late in 1984, Adams returned with the surging, mid-tempo "Run to You," which became his second Top Ten single; it also became his first British hit, peaking at number 11. Reckless, also released in late 1984, became a blockbuster success, spending two weeks at the top of the U.S. album charts and selling over five million copies. Besides "Run to You," Reckless featured five other Top 15 singles, including the number one "Heaven," "Summer of '69," "Somebody," "One Night Love Affair," and "It's Only Love," a duet with Tina Turner.

　　Released in 1987, Into the Fire proved to be a considerable commercial disappointment, spending 33 weeks on the charts, selling one million copies, and spawning only one Top Ten hit, "Heat of the Night." Four years later, Adams returned with "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," the theme song for the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The song became a huge hit, spending seven weeks at number one in the U.S.; in Britain, it was at the top of the charts for an astonishing 15 weeks, which was the longest stay at number one since Frankie Laine's "I Believe" in 1953. The success of "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" re-established Adams as a mainstream-rock commercial powerhouse, setting the stage for the triple-platinum Waking Up the Neighbours, released in the fall of 1991. Waking Up the Neighbours launched the number two hit "Can't Stop This Thing We Started," the minor hit "There Will Never Be Another Tonight," and two Top 15 singles, "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven" and "Do I Have to Say the Words?"

　　The following year, Bryan Adams released a greatest-hits collection, So Far, So Good, which featured a new track, "Please Forgive Me." The ballad became another Top Ten success, as did the similar-sounding "All for Love" -- a collaboration with Rod Stewart and Sting taken from The Three Musketeers -- which reached number one. In the summer of 1995, Adams had his fourth number one single, "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?," taken from the Don Juan DeMarco soundtrack; the single spent five weeks at number one.

　　Bryan Adams released 18 'til I Die, his first new studio album since 1991's Waking Up the Neighbours, in the summer of 1996. On a Day like Today followed in 1998. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide