Within temptation singer biography maxwell

Born May 23, 1973, in Brooklyn, NY. Addresses: Record company--Columbia, 550 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022. Internet--www.maxwell.appreciators.com.

Heralded as the savior of soul music in the 1990s, Maxwell, the self professed former nerd, rocketed from relative obscurity to infamy with his romantic concept album, Urban Hang Suite.

Maxwell's debut album not only earned him a Grammy, three Soul Train Music Awards, and three National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Awards but it also earned him countless comparisons to the great soul singers of the 1960s and 1970s.

The depessed and dangerous section of Brooklyn known as East New York was where Maxwell was born on May 23, 1973.

His father, who died when Maxwell was three, was from the West Indies, while Maxwell's mother was of Puerto Rican decent. His mother did not allow him to play outside very often after his father died. He was a loner, who stayed inside the apartment reading the Bible and watching Within Temptation - Wikipedia BOSYG