Hart was subsequently nominated for four Juno Awards and a Grammy Award for "Best New Artist".Īfter his first break in meeting Billy Joel in a New York recording studio, Corey Hart was signed to Aquarius Records and went to England to record his first album. It featured the hit singles "Sunglasses at Night" (along with an award-winning music video) and the ballad "It Ain't Enough". Hart currently works primarily as a songwriter, writing music for his wife and other artists, including Celine Dion.įirst Offense is the debut album by Corey Hart. Masse, born on June 3 1964, was the inspiration for Hart's song "Third of June". Today, Hart is based in the Bahamas with his wife, French-Canadian singer Julie Masse and their four children: daughters India, Dante and River and son Rain. Released to club DJs that year, it became an instant smash on the international dance music charts. In 2002, Hart returned to the studio to re-record "Sunglasses At Night", which was remixed by engineers, Original 3. He amassed a total of 26 Top 30 hits in his native country. However, he continued to chart successfully in Canada throughout the 1990s. Hart continued to record music and his maturity reflected in his songwriting, though his commercial success in the United States began to wane with the advent of grunge rock. Fox while Hart focused on his music career.) Hart was also offered the lead songs "The Heat Is On" and "Danger Zone" for "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Top Gun" soundtracks respectively, both of which he politely declined, stating his preference to record his own songs. (The role eventually went to another Canadian, Michael J.
In fact, Hart became so popular that he was offered the role of Marty McFly in the film Back to the Future, which he turned down. It featured the phenomenal radio hit "Never Surrender," which was the #2 song in the year-end Canadian charts in 1985, finishing second only to "Tears Are Not Enough", the Canadian charity single which also featured Hart. Boy in the Box reached diamond status in Canada (1 million copies sold), becoming only the second Canadian album to do so, after Bryan Adams' Reckless that same year. His follow-up album was the chart-topping Boy in the Box. The album went platinum in both Canada and the United States. Released in 1983, First Offense, featured the US Top 10 hit songs "Sunglasses at Night" and "It Ain't Enough".
At 13, he sang for Tom Jones and recorded with Paul Anka in Las Vegas and, at 19, recorded demos with Billy Joel and Eric Clapton before signing to a major label at the age of 20.Ĭorey Hart's first album was recorded in Manchester, England in the spring of 1982.
He grew up in Montreal, Spain, Mexico City, and Key Biscayne, Florida, and was raised solely by his mother from the age of 10 when his parents divorced. Corey Mitchell Hart (born, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Grammy Award-nominated Canadian musician.
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