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Rag'n'Bone Man
British singer (born 1985)
Rory Charles Graham, known professionally as Rag'n'Bone Man, is an English singer. He is known for his baritone voice.
His first hit single, "Human", was released in 2016, and his first album Human was released in 2017. The album became the fastest selling debut album by a male in the UK for the decade and has since achieved 4× Platinum certification.
At the 2017 Brit Awards, he was named British Breakthrough Act and received the Critics' Choice Award. He also received a further Brit Award for Best British Single with the title track, in 2018.
awards: NRJ Music Award for International Revelation of the Year
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Early life
Rory Charles Graham was born on 29 January 1985, in Eastbourne, East Sussex He has a younger half-sister. He attended the Ringmer Secondary School in Ringmer, from which he was expelled and then enrolled at Uckfield College in Uckfield. At 15, he began MCing with a drum and bass crew using the handle Rag 'N' Bonez, inspired by watching repeats of the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son. While at school, he was part of a group of youths supported by The Prince's Trust which developed a community project which involved painting and gardening in Crowborough. He still supports the local Brighton and Hove Albion football team.
Graham moved to Brighton. During this time, a friend, known as GI3MO, formed the rap group Rum Committee and invited him to join them. Graham started performing at Slip-jam B, where he met people who helped him start his career. Over the next few years, they supported hip hop artists Pharoahe Monch and KRS-One at Brighton's Concorde 2, and released their own album titled Boozetown (2012) through Bandcamp and other digital stores. Just weeks before the Rum Committee album release, Graham was asked to support Joan Armatrading, at Brighton Dome. With no solo releases to his name to distribute on the night, he worked with Rum Committee producers GI3MO, and Sherlock Bones, to create his first official release, the eight-track EP Bluestown...
British singer and songwriter from Uckfield, East Sussex, England, born 29 January 1985.
Also known as: Rag & Bone Man, Rag 'N' Bone Man, Rag 'n' Bone Man, Rag N Bone Man, Rag N' Bone Man
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Liner notes
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Bluestown
2012 ep
Dog 'n' Bone
2013 ep
Wolves
2014 ep
Put That Soul on Me
2014 ep
Disfigured
2015 ep
Deezer Sessions
2017 ep
Human
2017 album
wanted
Life by Misadventure
2021 album
What Do You Believe In?
2024 album
Whisper (Max Chapman & Mischief Terrace Mix)
2025 ep
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
Human is the debut studio album by British singer Rag'n'Bone Man. It was released on 10 February 2017 through Columbia Records and features his breakthrough single of 2016, entitled "Human".
It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with sales of 117,000, making it the fastest-selling debut album by a male artist during the 2010s.
Critical reception
Human has been given a Metacritic score of 64 based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Leonie Cooper of NME gave the album a positive review stating, "Rory Graham's debut album is at once modern and classic, fusing blues, hip-hop and vintage sounds with a pop attitude". Kitty Empire of The Observer said "So it's a good job that Rag'n'Bone Man has the kind of righteous roar that could breathe life into the phone book" but criticised the album, saying it “spools together a set of reliable tropes with little in the way of topspin."
