Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.

After recording on the independent American label Custard Records Blunt won two Brit Awards two MTV Video Music Awards two Ivor Novello Awards and by 2006 was nominated for five Grammy Awards. Early life
James Blunt was born at an army hospital in Tidworth Wiltshire England; the first child born to Jane A. James Hillier Blount (born 22 February 1974) better known by his stage name James Blunt is an English singer-songwriter and former army officer whose debut album Back to Bedlam and single releases including "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover" brought him to fame in 2005.

Blunt was an officer in the Life Guards a cavalry regiment of the British Army and served under NATO in Kosovo during the conflict there in 1999. Since then Blunt has supported MSF by holding meet-and-greet auctions at many of his concerts.