Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands) is an English rock singer, most famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin, but also for his successful solo career. He is known for his powerful style, often mysterious lyrics, and wide vocal range. As the lead singer of Led Zeppelin he is often defined as the quintessential rock front man combining rare musical adeptness and knowledge with a large measure of braggadocio and stage bravado. As a solo artist following the Led Zeppelin era, he is often credited for his wide range of musical taste and his ability to perform an eclectic range of songs in a refined and critically acclaimed manner.
Although born in West Bromwich, Plant actually grew up in Halesowen, formerly Worcestershire, now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. He is a big supporter of the football team Wolverhampton Wanderers and regularly attends home games at the Molineux stadium. He left school in his early teens and developed a strong passion for the blues, abandoning a promising career as a chartered accountant to become part of the Midlands blues scene. Plant did various jobs whilst pursuing his music career, one of which was working for Wimpey's in Birmingham in 1966 tarmacing roads. He cut no less than three obscure singles on CBS records [1]. He sang with a variety of bands including The Crawling King Snakes, which brought him into contact with drummer John Bonham. They both went on to play in the Band of Joy, merging blues with newer psychedelic trends. Though his early career met with no commercial success, word quickly spread about the "young guy with the powerful voice".In 1968, guitarist Jimmy Page was in search of a lead singer for his new band and met Plant after being turned down by his first choice, Terry Reid, who referred him to a show at a nightclub where Plant was singing in a band. Plant and Page immediately hit it off with a shared musical passion and after Plant joined the band, they began their powerful writing collaboration with reworkings of earlier blues songs. Plant brought along John Bonham as drummer, and along with John Paul Jones, who had worked with Jimmy Page as a studio musician, Led Zeppelin was formed in 1968. Their self-titled debut album hit the charts in 1969 and is widely credited as a catalyst for the heavy metal genre. Ironically, Plant has commented that it is unfair for people to think of Zeppelin as "heavy metal," since almost a third of their music was acoustic.[2]
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