Kaden Walsh

Kaden James Walsh, OBE (September 27, 1978-) is an Irish born singer-songwriter, multi instrumentalist, record producer and director. Often stated as one of the best British acts of the 21st century for his prolific work, and musicianship. Kaden is known to play all instruments on his tracks and albums much like his pop counterparts. He is known for is consistent releases, song writing, instrumental work, warm vocal range and stage presence. Walsh has often been regarded as one of the biggest selling artists of the modern day United Kingdom music scene beside British hit-maker Adele. Due to Walsh's impact, he has also received the Freedom of the City award alongside the Order of the British Empire due to his service in the British Music industry.

Born and Raised in Derry, Ireland. Walsh signed a contract with a talent finder, Michael Davies, on behalf of his uncle, a common friend of Davies at the age of 19 and released the albums Last Train Home (1998) and Kaden Walsh (1999) which allowed him to achieve almost immediate success in his home country. Walsh would later be picked up on the global world scale with his third album Justice (2000) and later go on to, alongside his third album, make game changing albums which included Forsaken (2001), 2045 (2002). However, his sixth studio album Contention (2004) became one of the biggest selling albums in his career and in the US which had the biggest year end sales by any artist at the time. Though not achieving the same sales, he would later release Overkill (2005) and his later, often underrated album Memories (2007).

In the midst of his peak, Walsh began frequently having disputes with his label, Prism Records which was broken out into the public in 2009 after failure of marketing and promoting his 'Naked Tour'. And in doing so during the time, lost Walsh upwards of 25 Million pounds due to lacklustre ticket sales, Walsh had stated that it had become a personal vendetta of Michael Davies, the CEO of the label at the time to fail to market to due to his complete removal of executive producer in 2000 with his album [ Justice] and that he would be taking him to court over the matter. Things further accelerated months later after winning the damages of upwards of 50 Million pounds when Walsh's latest soundtrack failed to get anywhere near the numbers he was selling due to once more, further lacklustre sales and failure to promote which Walsh once again stated, it's a very once sided fight. Walsh has also added that his next tour will be marketed by him and is said to only tour Europe, Japan and for the first time, Australia. The tour is expected in 2012 due to legal issues surround Davies and Walsh.

Kaden Walsh was known for his prolific output, as of 2021, he now has an outstanding 23 studio albums with an apparent vast array of unreleased music and albums. It's never been reported as to how many albums Walsh has made and or songs that are in the vault that have never been released. However, Walsh has released hundreds of songs under both his name, and other pseudonyms during his life. Estimates give that Walsh could have upwards of 350 unreleased songs, however, that has been yet to be updated since 2007. Walsh has sold over 150 million albums worldwide, ranking him among some of the best selling artists of all time. Walsh has won over 27 Awards as of 2007 and nominated for over 75. He was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005, just months after dropping his Multi-Platinum selling album Overkill (2005)

Early Life
Kaden James Walsh was born in Derry, Ireland on September 27, 1978. The son of both Linda Perry (now known as Linda Walsh), and Bradley Walsh. He was, originally to be named Caden, but both parents had opted in for the americanised spelling of the name Kaden instead. A Gaelic origin referring to the name of battler (though the original source of the meaning is debated). In 2011 while being interview on Daybreak Walsh had opened up about his name, and had even stated that his plans, though while going for the original name 'Caden' also were planning to choose Sean instead but added in "Karen Walsh has a more marketable ring to it." Kaden was often quite a reclusive child growing up due to the various amount, including The Troubles of political protests that had happened in his town at time of growing up. Stating that if he went outside, "it was to school and right back home" which though having a profound effect on his social aspect of his life. Walsh often reflected that he would much rather it compared to constant partying, and when invited to any as a musician. He is, in his own words 'the one weird guy making melodies in the corner while everyone gets Sh**tfaced'

It's believed that Walsh had written his first at age 9 called "Yeats Street Daisies" which is believed to be about the street he grew up on, Yeats Street on nothing but his mother's Casio recorder and kitchen pots and pans as a rhythm. Walsh had a hard time growing up however given the problems surrounding the political issues surrounding Derry at the time in relation to ongoing drug crisis. Almost to a point where his mother was almost killed in coming home from work after a gang had mistaken her as a drug pusher. Not many details are known about the incident due to Walsh's hesitancy to talk about it, stating that he was, and still is 'very scared from that day' and since then. Has had security detail placed on his parents due to the possible ordeal of it happening again.

Walsh attended Saint Joesph's Boys' School where he took it upon himself to begin music club and begin learning the likes of guitar, drums and bass. While attending Joesph's, Walsh caught the attention of his uncle's new to the scene, musical talent director Michael Davies who later took it upon himself to run the label Prism Records and co-produce Walsh's first two albums. Many people who attend alongside Walsh had stated how scarily accurate he was in learning guitar and bass, and had learned the likes of the basic chords within two weeks. Gaining rhythm and beats alongside basic understanding of drums within four weeks.

1996-1998: Beginnings and breakthrough
In 1996, on permission of the school, Wash began taking it upon himself to learn the basics of songwriting which Michael Davies watched over and tried his best to direct which was the sound was going or even could be going at the time, however, unable to get Walsh any possible studio time due to no possible label wanting to sign Walsh due to his 'inability to be marketable for the new 2000's pop scene'.

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It was by 1998 that at age 20, Michael Davies had gathered enough money, at the time to create the label prism Records. Only $5,500,000 to allow Walsh allocation to studio time, a contract and a simple photoshoot for his album, whatever would come out at the time. With the help of Davies. Walsh began recording songs for what would eventually become his first debut album Last Train Home. With the album mixed on March 4th, only allowing a space of a single month to get the album released. It was decided by Walsh to put the album out first and then any singles to make sure that, though the album was heavily panned in a negative fashion, that the singles would have some breathing room after the album was launched. Becoming Walsh's one of a handful of albums that was in an album first, singles later sense, both singles from the first album only became minor hits in the UK with the first single "Last Train Home" becoming a Top 75 hit where it reached Number 54, charting for a single week. However, the next single that was issued after "Dear Diary" became Walsh's first Top 40, reaching Number 40 for a single week on the UK Charts.

1999-2001: Europe Breakthrough
It was by 1999 that with the small success that Last Train Home had received that Walsh was almost instantly given the go-ahead to make his second studio album in the hopes that they would begin selling at, in the masses. Upwards of 4 times the numbers that his first album did

Achievements
Main articles: List of awards and nominations received by Kaden Walsh

Discography
Main articles: Kaden Walsh Discography, Kaden Walsh singles discography,

See also: Albums produced by Kaden Walsh, Songs Written by Kaden Walsh.


 * Last Train Home (1998)
 * Kaden Walsh (1999)
 * Justice (2000)
 * Forsaken (2001)
 * 2045 (2002)
 * Contention (2004)
 * Overkill (2005)
 * Paradise (2006)
 * Memories (2007)
 * Kaden Walsh II (2007)
 * Timeframe (2008)
 * Love = Death (also referred to as ❥ = 💀) (2009)
 * Tron: Legacy (2010)
 * Force (2011)
 * KW15 (2012)
 * The Hits I (2013)
 * The Hits II (2013)
 * The Vault (2013)
 * 1978-2014 (2014)
 * Kaden Walsh II - Reissue (2014)
 * KW17 (2015)
 * KW18 (2016)
 * KW19 (2016)

Filmography
Television

Headlining Tours

 * Kaden Walsh Tour (1999-2000)
 * Justice Tour (2000-2001)
 * Forsaken Tour (2001-2002)
 * 2045 Tour (2002-2003)
 * Contention Tour (2004-2005)
 * Paradise Tour (2006)
 * Memories Tour (2007)
 * Timeframe Tour (2008-2009)
 * Naked Tour (2010)
 * Force Tour (2012)

Headlined Events

 * Planeta Atlandia (1999)
 * 2012 London Olympics - Closing Ceremony (2012)
 * One Love Manchester (2017)

Trivia

 * Though it has been heavily debated, Kaden Walsh, during his album Overkill (2005). It has been noted that during one of the screams, it is unknown if Walsh's voice broke during the scream or he had actually reached a G7 note on the track "Social Mediation". Though many people believe he did hit it due to how it is often never played on tour
 * Kaden is one of the handful of modern day artists that is able to play the 12 string guitar and even played it on his London shows on his Force Tour (2012)