Robert Plant 01

Robert Plant 01 - by Miki

After having seen Robert Plant a6 different occasions on the English TV, and listened to him, singing anyway, but also been interviewed, I decided that he seems to be a kind, quite simple and humble guy, so here we are, he is worth my time and I will make some portraits of him. I already painted him in the past, in fact quite at the beginning when I started painting the rockers,. Kevin had said I should do him and Jimmy Page, and I obeyed the music boss in the house, and it was a good idea as that painting has become a big sales hit. But now, i know him much better, and feel more comfortable portraying him. In this first portrait I was especially attracted by the hip movement and, of course, the golden hair…

As for the facts, you better check the Wikipedia:

“… Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.[1]
A career spanning more than 40 years, Plant is regarded as one of the most significant singers in the history of rock music, and influenced contempories such as Freddie Mercury and Axl Rose. In 2006, heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the “Greatest Metal Vocalist of All-Time”. In 2009, Plant was voted “the greatest voice in rock” ahead of Freddie Mercury, in a poll conducted by Planet Rock ...”

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