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Adam Lambert
Adam Mitchel Lambert is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for his dynamic vocal performances that combine his theatrical training with modern and classic genres. Lambert rose to fame in 2009 after finishing as runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol. Later that year, he released his debut album For Your Entertainment, which debuted at number three on the U.S. Billboard…
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entertainment · American singer (born 1982) · actor · singer-songwriter · singer · stage actor · lyricist · record producer · pop singer · musician · also Adam Lambert, Adam Mitchel Lambert, Lambert
Born 29 January 1982 · Q190231
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2026· 10 entries
“I feel like with celebrity and visibility and fame, there”
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“effervescent, and a showcase for the nosebleed-inducing heights his falsetto can scale; it also serves as the conflation of Queen”
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“my heart is simply not in doing a covers album... I am already deep into writing new material with some very talented colleagues for a brand new album, and I can”
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The Guardian: Adam Lambert looks back: ‘I couldn’t pass up on joining Queen – even if the fans were protective of Freddie’
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Released album “ADAM”.
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Lambert released his sixth studio album, ADAM, independently through his label, More Is More, with distribution by The Orchard
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Public attention spiked: 10,565 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.8× the usual 1,817, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 6,721 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 1,817, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 2 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “singers Dolly Parton, Adam Lambert, Elton John, Barry Gibb, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, sports figures Sam Pittman, Cade Klubnik, or Marc Marquez honored Charlie Kirk by calling for a moment of silence or by attending his funeral” Viet Spam.
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Snopes rated the claim “Singer-songwriter Adam Lambert donated nearly $13 million to a homeless shelter initiative.” False.
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2024· 6 entries
The Guardian: Adam Lambert: ‘I don’t need a dildo dipped in glitter’
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Released ep “AFTERS”.
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Lambert independently released the six-track EP Afters through his label, More Is More
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The Guardian: Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud review – give this compelling singer his own podcast series
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The Guardian: TV tonight: Queen frontman Adam Lambert celebrates Freddie Mercury
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Replacing Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee in the revival of Cabaret on September 16
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2023· 4 entries
Released ep “Chandelier”.
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Released ep “Holding Out for a Hero”.
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The Guardian: Adam Lambert: ‘A guy I was dating said I would never make it. I had the last laugh’
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Released album “High Drama”.
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2021· 2 entries
With tour footage and streaming or purchase access
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Featured a "queer for queer" lineup of LGBTQ artists
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “VELVET”.
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Lambert released the retro-funk track "Roses" featuring Nile Rodgers
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Released ep “VELVET: Side A: Live Sessions”.
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2019· 5 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Adam Lambert replaced James Hetfield as lead singer in Metallica.” Labeled Satire.
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Released ep “VELVET: Side A”.
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Lambert released "New Eyes", the lead single from his fourth studio album Velvet, co-written with Paris Carney and produced by Jamie Sierota
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Lambert and Queen were the first rock band to open the 91st Academy Awards with an "explosive" performance of two classic Queen songs in honor of the film Bohemian Rhapsody that earned a standing ovation
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For an NFL themed episode, singing a parody of "Don't Stop Me Now"
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Adam Lambert: 'Now there’s an audience for me being exactly who I am'
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2017· 1 entry
In Glendale, Arizona consisting of dates in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand
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2015· 6 entries
Released album “The Original High”.
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The Guardian: Brian May: Queen would like to play Glastonbury with Adam Lambert
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Lambert became the first former contestant to appear as a guest judge on American Idol at the fourteenth season's New York City auditions, filling in for Keith Urban
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The Guardian: Queen and Adam Lambert review – an unlikely union, but it works
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A second leg of eleven countries and 26 dates in Europe and the UK was performed
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Lambert released his third album The Original High, which debuted at number three on the U
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2014· 3 entries
A compilation album The Very Best of Adam Lambert was released by Sony Legacy's Playlist series, featuring recordings from Lambert's two studio albums along with studio recordings from American Idol and Glee
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Adam Lambert”.
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The Guardian: Queen confirm North American tour with singer Adam Lambert
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2013· 2 entries
Received the Unity Award, which honors artists whose music spreads "peaceful messages", from the We Are Family Foundation at their 2012 Celebration Gala 2
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“s tribute to David Bowie, who was about to release a new album. In it, he explained how Bowie helped inform the expression of his own sexuality and gender in his work:”
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2012· 5 entries
Released ep “Trespassing (Remixes)”.
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Lambert headlined a fundraising benefit in Washington, D
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Benefiting the Rays Of Sunshine Children's Charity
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Released album “Trespassing”.
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Lambert released his second studio album Trespassing
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2011· 5 entries
Released album “Beg for Mercy”.
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Released album “Paramount Sessions”.
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Released album “Glam Nation Live”.
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When he took the stage at the MTV Europe Music Awards, honoree Queen guitarist Brian May noted that Lambert's voice has "sensitivity, depth, maturity, and awesome range and power which will make jaws drop"; while Roger T
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Again appeared as a mentor on a singing competition, this time on The Hub's Majors & Minors, coaching singing contestants who were children
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2010· 5 entries
Released ep “Acoustic Live!”.
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Released ep “If I Had You: Remixed”.
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Released album “Remixes”.
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He was in a relationship with Finnish entertainment reporter and reality TV personality Sauli Koskinen from November 2010 until April 2013, when Lambert announced that the couple had split up amicably.
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To honor LGBT lives lost to suicide, "going purple" in the push to support LGBT youth in the fight against bullying
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2009· 8 entries
Released album “For Your Entertainment”.
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Released album “Take One”.
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Released album “Season 8 Favorite Performances”.
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After being outed on the internet during his bid to win American Idol, Adam Lambert confirmed that he was gay in a Rolling Stone cover interview that was published in June 2009.
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After finishing as runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol
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“Female performers have been doing this for years—pushing the envelope about sexuality—and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out. We”
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Lambert auditioned for the eighth season of American Idol in San Francisco, California by singing "Rock with You" and "Bohemian Rhapsody"
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Executive producer Larry Klein said that he was anticipating future Lambert performances: "Adam Lambert is a friend of ours, he's talented and I like everything about him
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2004· 1 entry
Appeared in the Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) production of Brigadoon and a Pasadena Playhouse production of 110 in the Shade, before being cast in the role of Joshua in The Ten Commandments: The Musical at the Kodak
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2000· 1 entry
Attended California State University, Fullerton
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1982· 2 entries
Born 1982-01-29.
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To mother Leila, a dental hygienist; and father Eber Lambert, a program manager for Novatel Wireless
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