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Robert Plant

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Born 20 August 1948.

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Biography

Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as as the lead vocalist and a lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career, releasing the 2007 album Raising Sand, produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. He was named the number 1 singer on Hit Parader's list of 100 greatest heavy metal vocalists.

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Albums releases

Release title Release date
Dreamland 2002
Fate of Nations 1993
Manic Nirvana 1990
Now and Zen 1988
Shaken 'n' Stirred 1985
 

Credits

Role Artist Release
Instrument Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won (2003)
Vocal Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Walking Into Clarksdale (1998)
Vocal The Honeydrippers Volume One (1984)
Vocal Led Zeppelin Presence (1976)
Vocal Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy (1973)
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