Roger Waters

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Roger Waters Short Bio

George Roger Waters (Surrey, United Kingdom, September 6, 1943), better known as Roger Waters , is a British musician, composer and activist. He is known for being one of the founders and member of the musical group Pink Floyd, becoming after the departure of Syd Barrett in the composer and conceptual of the band. In addition to being the bassist, he also shared the place of lead singer and experimented with synthesizers, loops, electric guitar and acoustic. With him, Pink Floyd achieved worldwide success in the 1970s thanks to his conceptual albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. He left the band in 1985 due to creative and legal differences with the other members. Resolved the dispute in 1987, spent almost 18 years to return to play with the band. By 2010, the group would have sold more than 250 million albums, in the United States alone 74 million albums.

He recorded four solo albums in studio: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), Amused to Death (1992) and “Is This the Life We Really Want” (2017) .In 1986, he contributed to the soundtrack of the film When the Wind Blows.In 1990, he organized one of the concerts with more attendance of the story, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with 300 & nbsp; 000 spectators.

In 1996, he was admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the United States and the United Kingdom as a member of Pink Floyd. Since 1999 he has made several tours. Since 1989 he worked in the opera Ça Ira, premiered in 2005, but one year before he had his prémiere in the celebrations for the entry of Malta into the European Union. On July 2, 2005, he met with former Pink Floyd supporters for the Live 8 charity concert, Waters’ only appearance with the band since his last performance 24 years ago.

In 2010 The Wall Live began, a world tour where he plays The Wall in full. During the same, on May 12, 2011, at The O2 Arena, Gilmour and Mason returned to share the stage with Waters, Gilmour playing “Comfortably Numb” and Gilmour and Mason with Waters on “Outside the Wall”.

Waters has been married four times and is the father of a daughter and two children. In 2004 he became engaged to actress and director Laurie Durning. They were married in 2012 and in September 2015 they started the process for their divorce.

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