1- Paul was born as Paul Bernard Rodgers in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom 17 December 1949
2- Paul Rodgers started his musical career as a bassist in a local band called The Roadrunners.
3- Paul was Lead singer for rock bands, Bad Company and Free, and for the supergroup, The Firm.
4- Often considered as a highly influential singer in the history of rock music, he has been dubbed “The Voice” by his fans.
5- At the end of 1983, he released his solo debut album Cut Loose
6- He had two children, Steve and Jasmine, with first wife Machiko Shimizu; he married his second wife, Cynthia Kereluk, in September 2007.
7- Freddie Mercury, the original Queen vocalist, in particular liked Rodgers and his aggressive style
8- He has also once been honored British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award in 2011
9- In 1991, John Mellencamp called Rodgers “the best rock singer ever”
10- Paul Rodgers’s genres are Rock, blues rock, hard rock, blues, soul blues
11- Rodgers has been cited by dozens of 1970s and ’80s rock groups and musicians as a major influence
12- He was ranked number 55 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”
13- He Considered as a potential replacement for Ian Gillan when Gillan left Deep Purple.
14- Paul Rodgers was honored with the British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music in 2011.
15- On 26 September 2007, Rodgers married a former model and Miss Canada, exercise physiologist and artist Cynthia Kereluk in Canada’s Okanagan Valley
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