The band won first place in a competition at their school, "Battle of the Bands", and made the members motivated to continue their musical career by changing the name Rocket Baby Dolls to Muse. However, after his parents divorced, he lived with his mother and older brother, Paul, and began his musical adventure by learning the piano at the age of 6 and starting to touch the guitar five years later.īellamy's first appearance on stage was in June 1991, when she played the piano at a school event at Teignmouth Community College.īellamy then formed a band with school friends, Christopher Wolstenholme (bass) and Dominic Howard (drums) in 1994 with the name Rocket Baby Dolls. Quoted from various sources, Knights of Cydonia, single from Muse's fourth album, Black Holes and Revelations (2006) is often considered as Bellamy's tribute to his father's song.īellamy and his family moved to Teignmouth, Devon in the mid-'80s. It was the first British band to successfully place their song, Telstar, in the United States.
The musical blood that runs through Bellamy's body was inherited by his father, George Bellamy, who was the guitarist for the '60s pop band The Tornados. JAKARTA - Who doesn't know Matthew Bellamy with his distinctive guitar sound? Well, today, June 9, the main character behind the lyrics and music of the British rock band Muse has a birthday.īorn in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England 44 years ago, Bellamy is also known as a vocalist, guitarist and pianist who has an eccentric stage appearance and often uses vibrato and falsetto techniques when singing.
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