Besides making music, the singing sensation has also served as a coach for participants on the Australian version of the TV show The Voice. Seal has lived anything but an ordinary life. Here are some lesser-known facts about the musician's life. Seal had a hard time as a child. He was born in London on February, 19, , to parents of Nigerian descent, per Hello. His parents were struggling to put food on the table and decided not to keep their baby, handing him over to foster parents in Essex.
However, when Seal was four, his mom came back into his life and forcibly moved him back to London. According to a New York Times profile on Seal, the singer didn't have a great relationship with his mother, who was sent back to Nigeria when he was six years old.
Following this incident, Seal started living at his dad's place. He was initially in awe of his father, who, unfortunately, seemed to dislike his son immensely. He often hit young Seal with items like belts and whips. He was a strict disciplinarian who hoped that his son would grow up to become a renowned doctor or lawyer. Seal eventually fled home as a teenager and only returned to take his dad's ashes back to Nigeria.
In an interview, Seal briefly reflected on his tough beginnings. It was filled with violence and abuse and a complete and utter lack of love," he stated. While Seal's father was less than thrilled about his love for music and performing, an observant teacher noticed his talent and was keen on Seal honing it further. Inspired by his teacher's faith in his abilities, Seal decided to sing at a parent-teacher association event. He was only 11 years old, inexperienced but optimistic.
Seal's fascination with music led to more beatings from this father, who wanted him to focus on other goals. There was this really cool teacher who I idolised — I certainly didn't idolise my father — and he always used to say, 'You've got a really good voice'. I would never really take his word for it, but he got me to sing on stage. I remember closing my eyes and singing, and at the end of it, everyone's clapping, and I opened my eyes and there was a look of disbelief on my parents' faces.
And at that point I knew. When Seal was 17 and away from home, trying to figure what to do with his life and map the way forward, he decided to pursue architecture.
He was hustling to get by but believed that his choice was better than going back home to his parents — even if it meant homelessness. Music was on the back of his mind, not something he could consciously chase. According to The Guardian , at that point, his singing was "sort of like the party trick that I would do when I was among friends.
And I'd hear it every time, 'Wow, I never knew you could sing! You ever thought of doing that? Seal only seriously considered making music at His girlfriend at the time was convinced that he needed to put himself out there and bought him a guitar, a drum machine, and other equipment and told him, "That's what you should be doing. You're wasting your time.
Get on with it. Even after he began to focus on making music, it took Seal some time to achieve a breakthrough. He was experimenting with his sound but knew his demos were failing to hit the mark. I had no identity. I could sing, but I had no voice. Tall he"s a towering 6ft 4in and handsome, Seal had a dramatic image to match his pop-funk-dance sound.
And his striking facial scars, from a childhood struggle with the auto-immune disease lupus, only helped to make him more memorable in the image-dominated world of pop. The disc had been on shelves for more than a year, however, when A Kiss From A Rose reached number one after being included on the Batman Forever soundtrack.
The single subsequently spent 45 weeks on the US charts. The album sold four million copies in the US alone and earned him three Grammys. It took four years before his next project, Human Being, was released, and though it was critically well-received, sales were disappointing. Suffering from writers' block, the musician left LA, where he'd lived during most of the 90s, to return to London.
Returning to his adopted California home with "a whole new perspective", he wrote the soulful Love's Divine. The single, which appeared on 's Seal IV , was a chart success and the album hit the top ten throughout Europe. Seal continued to produce records throughout the 00s and into the s, including two live albums, two greatest hits compilations and five new albums. Elsewhere, Seal has appeared on a variety of television shows. In he starred as a coach in the first season of Australia's The Voice , while in he was cast as Pontius Pilate in the Fox musical The Passion.
In his personal life, Seal started dating supermodel Heidi Klum not long after she split from Flavio Briatore in while pregnant with the Formula One boss's child. He was raised by a foster family in Westminster.
The prominent scars on Seal's face is due to of a type of lupus called discoid lupus erythematosus. Seal began dating German model Heidi Klum in , soon after she announced her pregnancy and end of relationship with Italian Formula One team manager Flavio Briatore.
They married in in Mexico, and they renewed their vows every year. The model has said that Briatore is not involved in Leni's life, and that "Seal is Leni's father".
In late , Seal officially adopted Leni, and her last name was changed to Samuel. In , Seal and Klum announced that they were separating after nearly seven years of marriage.
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