Tom Odell

Thomas Peter Odell (born 24 November 1990) is an English singer-songwriter.

He released his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love, in 2012.

He released his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love, in October 2012.

He made his television debut in November 2012 as a performer on Later... with Jools Holland; the show's producer Alison Howe later described it as "a classic Later debut".

He won the BRITs Critics' Choice Award in early 2013.

Odell's debut studio album, Long Way Down, was issued on 24 June 2013.

Odell was announced as one of 15 nominees for the BBC Sound of 2013 poll in January 2013.

Also that month, his single "Another Love" was used by the BBC to advertise their 2013 schedule.

Odell's music has been used in numerous Burberry fashion runway shows.

He was named the BRITs' Critics' Choice Award winner, previously won by artists such as Adele and Florence and the Machine and was the first male artist to win the award, and was interviewed alongside previous winner Emeli Sandé during the television ceremony in February 2013.

Odell's debut album, Long Way Down, was released on 24 June 2013 and reached No. 1 in the UK Official Chart.

He was due to support The Rolling Stones at London's Hyde Park on 13 July 2013, but was unable to perform because of illness.

Odell performed his first new song since the release of Long Way Down, entitled "Alex", on 7 February 2014 at the Plymouth Pavilions.

The show kicked off the last leg of his UK Long Way Down Tour.

Odell was named 'songwriter of the year' at the 2014 Ivor Novello Awards ceremony.

Odell's song "Can't Pretend" was used in the TV series The 100.

"Can't Pretend" and "Long Way Down" were also featured on The Blacklist and the award winning movie The Fault In Our Stars.

His song "Grow Old With Me" was featured in an episode of Reign.

The song was also featured in a major 60 second ad campaign for Kaiser Permanente entitled "Thrive".

His song "Heal" was also used in the movie If I Stay, the TV series NCIS, The Vampire Diaries and Elementary along with "Another Love".

Odell's next song, a cover of "Real Love" by The Beatles, was the audio track to the 2014 John Lewis Christmas advert and gained him great publicity.

Within hours of the advert being aired for the first time, the track reached to the top of the music recognition service Shazam’s trending list.

Within three days of release, it went straight to 21 in the UK top 40, peaking at 7.

Three years later, his follow-up studio album, Wrong Crowd, was released, on 10 June 2016.

Odell's music was featured in a Sony advert in 2016, with a cover of "True Colours" by Cyndi Lauper.

This was followed by the release two years later, on 26 October 2018, of his third studio album, Jubilee Road.

Monsters, his fourth album, was released on 9 July 2021, while his fifth album, Best Day Of My Life, was released the next year, on 28 October 2022.

His sixth album “Black Friday” was released on January 26, 2024

Odell was born in Chichester, West Sussex, England, to an airline pilot father and a primary school teacher mother.

He has an older sister.

He spent part of his childhood living in Auckland, New Zealand after his family moved to the country.

He was educated at Seaford College in West Sussex but also recalls attending school in New Zealand.

Throughout his school years, Odell wrote songs in a band that had trouble maintaining a lead singer.

This trouble inspired him to start singing the songs he wrote, and Odell says he "sang [the songs] how [he] wanted them to sound" rather than worrying about someone else not bringing his vision to life.

At 18, Odell abandoned plans to attend the University of York and attempted to gain a place at a music college in Liverpool.

A year later, he moved back to Chichester after being made redundant from his job as a barman.

Using his grandmother's car, he travelled regularly to London to play shows and to put advertisements in music schools.

He studied at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM) in Brighton playing as part of the band Tom & the Tides before moving to London where he decided to become a solo artist because he "didn't want to have to rely on people".

Odell was signed to In the Name Of, an imprint of Columbia Records.

He was discovered by the label head Lily Allen, who remarked that "his energy onstage reminded me of David Bowie".