Thirty years ago this weekend, Leonard Cohen first performed a song called “Hallelujah.”*

He didn’t then know the song would wind its way into the deepest reaches of popular culture, spirituality and, uh, Shrek. He didn’t know the song would make much of an impact at all.

The album on which it appeared, the murky, mid-career Various Positions, had been rejected wholesale by Columbia Records in the U.S., and when it finally was released, “the song was still generally ignored,” as Alan Light notes in his 2012 book The Holy or The Broken.

Frankly, it’s no wonder: “Hallelujah,” as it sounds on that record, is a barely recognizable blur of ’80s keyboards and overwrought backing vocals that Cohen further confused by changing up the lyrics when he began singing it in concert. (He has said he wrote as many as 80 verses, then whittled it down to four for the album version.)

It was a spate of cover interpretations—first by John Cale and Jeff Buckley, then by dozens and hundreds of others—that lifted the song out of obscurity, though it was something more mysterious that cemented its status as a modern standard, appearing on American Idol and in synagogue services in equal measure. It has become ubiquitous. Tallying versions by Cohen and plenty of others, Light estimates “Hallelujah” has been listened to hundreds of millions of times on YouTube alone. It is “something of a musical Rorschach test,” Light writes, invented anew by all who attempt the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall..

Many of those renditions are great. Some are quite terrible. Here, we celebrate the 30th birthday of “Hallelujah” by listening to 60 notable recordings of it that are readily available online and ranking them from worst to best. This list is of course open for debate and is necessarily far from exhaustive, and we are primarily sticking to renditions that are commercially available, as well as a few notable live performances.

60. Jeff Gutt (A Detroit Christmas, 2014): Dreadful, straining delivery, disastrous AOR arrangement that somehow gets worse and worse (hear those chugging, sub-Creed guitar licks?). Naturally, it was a grand slam on The X Factor. —ZS

59. The Canadian Tenors (The Canadian Tenors, 2008): “This song is pretty much indestructible,” singer Regina Spektor once said of “Hallelujah.” This vomitously overstuffed murdering of the track proves her wrong. —ZS

58. Michael Bolton (Gems - The Duets Collection, 2011): From its opening string swells to its steel guitar flourishes and choir crescendo, Bolton’s “Hallelujah” is a miserable grab bag of elevator-core tackiness, with a key change that would make even Jon Bon Jovi grimace. Avoid at all costs. —ZS

57. RMaster (feat. Ingo Lass) (New Anime Nation, Vol 3, 2014): Information about this is quite sparse, but it appears to be several anime stars with throaty, horribly reaching voices performing “Hallelujah” on top of piano, synthesized strings and even some xylophone twinkles. Truly hellish. —ZS

56. Susan Boyle (The Gift, 2010): It is difficult to encompass every trite, melodramatic “Hallelujah” cliché in a single, four-minute rendition, but Britain’s Got Talent star Boyle succeeds. Cloying beyond mercy. —ZS

55. Peter Hollens feat. Jackie Evancho (Peter Hollens, 2014): If you traveled to 1985 and told Leonard Cohen that a terrifyingly saccharine a cappella version of “Hallelujah” would one day have 1.7 million YouTube streams, he’d have said, “What the hell is YouTube?” —ZS

54. Bird of Pray (More Sad Songs, 2011): Throaty, exasperating verses meet saccharine, choral-style refrains. At least it’s short. —ZS

53. Kelley Mooney (Tomorrow, 2011): Apparently, it’s not unheard of for Christian performers to swap out Leonard Cohen’s lyrics for their own. Mooney goes all out, axing every familiar verse in favor of worshipful musings like, “The soldier who had used his sword / To pierce the body of our lord / Said ‘Truly, this was Jesus Christ our savior’”— in the process obliterating both the rhyme schemes and the spiritual ambiguity that make the song work. —ZS

52. Alejandro Fuentes and Askil Holm and Espen Lind and Kurt Nilsen (Hallelujah - Live, 2006): Splitting the verses between co-vocalists is usually a mistake, and this gratingly oversung version by four Norwegian talents isn’t an exception. It’s a respite when the crowd takes over for the last chorus. —ZS

51. The Pitchforks (Refraction, 2012): An a cappella group from Duke University offers proof that “beatboxing” and “Leonard Cohen” do occasionally appear in the same sentence. —ZS

50. Jake Coco (Under the Covers, Vol 5, 2013): You’ve heard Rufus Wainwright’s emotive solo piano reading of the song (see No. 3 in this list)? Then you’ve heard this one, but far better. —ZS

49. Bon Jovi (Live at Madison Square Garden, 2009): Jon Bon Jovi & Co. grind Cohen’s song through the Power Ballad Industrial Complex and emerge, six minutes later, relatively unscathed. The same can’t be said of the audience. Violin swells and overheated “Wanted Dead or Alive”-style wails included free of charge. —ZS

48. Street Corner Symphony (The Sing Off: Season 3, 2010): Yes, certainly, the world needs another Christmas-y, TV-ready a cappella take on “Hallelujah”. Well, no, it doesn’t, but if you’re nodding along at home, this rendition, from NBC’s The Sing-Off, goes out to you. —ZS

47. Michael Henry and Justin Robinett (Simplistic Duplexity, 2011): The world surely doesn’t need another muzak-y piano duet of “Hallelujah' either, but this one’s blandly inoffensive enough. —ZS

46. Francesco Lazzari, Elena Ravelli (Love Stories, 2011): This cheesy version is sung in a thick Italian accent and pretty heavy on instrumental sentiment. But its goofiness is endearing, and it gets a boost for being titled “Hallelujah, Shrek,” as though the lovable green ogre were the song’s true spiritual forefather. —ZS

45. Ois Easy (Infinite Contemporary Lounge, Vol 2, 2014): “Hallelujah” has been translated into several languages, but here’s another foreign-language singer trying it out in English, a fact that becomes clear when “Bathing” rhymes with “Laughing.” The acoustic accompaniment is pleasantly restrained, but the vocals are nothing of the sort, stretching, wailing and convulsing in every needless direction. —ZS

44. Il Divo (The Promise, 2008): Imagine Jeff Buckley was a Spanish member of an “operatic pop” vocal quartet thrown together by Simon Cowell. Even that doesn’t quite capture the surreal effect of this delicate, Spanish-language version. The members hail from different countries but each knew Cohen’s song, a testament to its 21st-century popularity on Idol and other reality shows. —ZS

43. Jason Mann (Soul, 2010): It’s a competent enough guitar-and-voice reading, but why is the tempo so slow? And why must it drag on for six-and-a-half minutes? Or maybe those queries are related.. —ZS

42. Sons of Serendip (single download, 2015): “Hallelujah” is frequently mistaken for an ancient religious standard rather than a pop song written in the 1980s. Church-friendly, muzak-y recordings like this one, from an America’s Got Talent quartet, don’t help matters. It comes complete with a harp, predictably irritating oversinging and strings that flutter all the way to the heavens. Cohen’s lyrics, meanwhile, are all too biting and bemused for this sort of soaring majesty. —ZS

41. Lisa Lois (Smoke, 2009): Yet another reality-show-performance-turned-studio-recording, this one from the Dutch X-Factor. Lois’s piano-based “Hallelujah” is capably sung but more showy than affecting. Studio flourishes are minimal, but catch that vocal echo trick at 2:59. —ZS

40. Baby Lullaby (Babies Bedtime: 100% Natural Sleep Aid & Nursery Melodies for a Happy Newborn, 2014): From what little information exists online, this is exactly what it purports to be: an acoustic, pared-to-its-essence “Hallelujah” intended to lull your newborn into a non-screaming state. I am neither infant nor parent, so I cannot speak to its efficiency, but be assured—it’s instrumental, so there’s no need to expose your child to that “remember when I moved in you” line. —ZS

39. On the Rocks (Full Coverage, 2005): Among the earliest a cappella recordings of “Hallelujah.” Necessarily cheesy but tastefully done, with doo-wop touches and a full choral effect at the end. —ZS

38. Anna Clendening (America’s Got Talent, 2014): “Keep the bar low when it comes to expectations” is the rule on contest shows, and this AGT contestant starts by talking about her “anxiety and depression disorder” and being bedridden for a year--before knocking it out of the park. “A baffled king composing 'Hallelujah,'” indeed. —SE

37. Celine Dion & the Canadian Tenors (Oprah Winfrey Show, 2010): Yes, we had never heard of the Canadian Tenors either, and their earnest, heartfelt cover, redolent of hair product and facial tics, goes into overdrive when they are surprised to have their heroine Dion join them. That’s right, their heroine is Celine Dion. And no, love is not a victory march. —SE

36. Josh Vietti (Best of Both Worlds, 2012): Want to hear how an instrumental “Hallelujah” sounds in the hands of a virtuoso violinist? Okay, here you go. —ZS

35. Straight No Chaser (Under the Influence, 2013): An earnest enough a cappella arrangement for those who like their vocal accompaniment with plenty of breathy Ooohs, Aaaahs and Ba-dums. —ZS

34. Noah Guthrie (Hallelujah, 2014): A smoky, campfire-style take from a 19-year-old YouTube-famous singer whose voice sounds triple the age. An odd fit, but an A- for effort. —ZS

33. Rhema Marvanna (Believe, 2011): Okay, here’s a fun one. You hear those piano arpeggios and think it’s another uselessly uninventive “Hallelujah” until the vocals pop in and you realize the little girl on the album cover is not a ruse—she’s the one singing, and a quick bio reveals she was indeed born in 2002. The instrumental backing—key change and all—is a melodramatic mess, but Marvanna is a delight, especially the twang on her voice when she sings “The baffled king composin’ Hallelujah!” —ZS

32. Alexandra Burke (Overcome, 2009): The English singer has impressive pipes, and the song helped her win the fifth season of The X Factor. But the best “Hallelujah” covers operate on restraint, and Burke’s gospel-tinged, key-change-ready performance has none of it. —ZS

31. Dan Henig (Hallelujah, 2013): It’s all a fairly routine singer-songwriter-y “Hallelujah” until the beatboxing comes in—and doesn’t let up for three otherwise affecting minutes of wordless cooing. According to Wikipedia, Henig is “notable for his viral YouTube video cover of Get Low,” so this is a curious new direction. —ZS

30. Adam Sandler (12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief, 2012): An Adam Sandler parody of “Hallelujah” sounds unfunny enough. A Hurricane Sandy-themed Adam Sandler parody of “Hallelujah” is even less so, but it warrants a few points for (1) its Paul Shaffer accompaniment and (2) its rhyming of “Hallelujah” with “32-ounce Mountain Dew-ya.” —ZS

29. Kate Voegele (online single, 2008): One Tree Hill performer Voegele tells Alan Light, “I was like, ‘No, I can’t touch it—it’s an untouchable song.’ But eventually I decided to say screw it and do it anyways.” The result fits in some demilitarized zone between illuminating reimaginings and dreadful X Factor butcherings. It’s just…there. —ZS

28. The King’s Singers (From the Heart, 2010): One of the earlier and better a cappella recordings of “Hallelujah,” by an English sextet that’s been around longer than the song has. By the final refrain, these guys are reaching octave levels that would make Leonard Cohen blush. —ZS

27. Jai-Jagdeesh (Of Heaven & Earth, 2013): Performances of “Hallelujah” are nearly always dominated by white, Western voices, so it’s an impressive treat to hear Jai-Jagdeesh bring conventionally Indian instruments into the mix. Still, be wary of “Hallelujah” versions that carry on past the six-minute mark—the refrain is almost guaranteed to be stretched beyond its limits. —ZS

26. Allison Crowe (Tidings, 2004): If you are yowling at full throttle by the 30-second mark, your “Hallelujah” cover may be hitting its dramatic arc a bit early. This performance by the Canadian singer is solid but oversung. Its timing was interesting, following the Shrek appearance but predating the American Idol trend by at least a few years. —ZS

25. Popa Chubby (Big Man Big Guitar: Popa Chubby Live, 2005): A blues guitarist whose stage name is a pun on “Pop a chubby” wails about a “cold! and it was a broken! Hallelujah!” gasping each breath like it’ll summon the ghost of Stevie Ray Vaughan. At least it’s different. —ZS

24. Renée Fleming (Dark Hope, 2010): Hear opera soprano Fleming take on “Hallelujah” on a covers LP alongside titles by Arcade Fire and, uh, The Mars Volta. It’s an inventively airy, quick-footed orchestral arrangement, and Fleming’s vocals are blandly capable without overdoing it. —ZS

23. Willie Nelson (Songbird, 2006): The self-deprecating bemusement in Cohen’s verses (“You say I took the name in vain / I don’t even know the name”) is a natural fit for the country legend’s twang. But the melody—and the slow-building majesty of it all—is an awkward stylistic match at best. —ZS

22. Damien Rice (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Volume 10: 2008-2009): Performing at Cohen’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, the Irish folk singer competently if clumsily injects drama into the song where it already exists. It’s a callback to two superior versions: Rice’s voice is similar to Wainwright’s, while his guitar accompaniment owes to Buckley. —ZS

21. Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris (Hope for Haiti Concert, 2011): A song for all occasions, including earthquake relief telethons, Cohen’s opus still has the power to surprise the people singing it. When Timberlake sings, “Maybe there’s a god above,” he looks like he is allowing for the possibility for the first time. Yeah, and Charlie Sexton on guitar. —SE

20. Michael McDonald (Soul Speak, 2008): Soul singer McDonald slows things down a notch and substitutes the familiarly lilting vocal melody with his own R&B meanderings. The dude can sing, as Steely Dan will attest. Problem is, “Hallelujah” isn’t a sexy slow jam you can pad out with sultry blues guitar flourishes —but the weird stylistic challenge of it all is striking and uniquely done. —ZS

19. Neil Diamond (Dreams, 2010): Yes, that Neil Diamond. Remember: “Hallelujah” was first sung by a 50-year-old Leonard Cohen and then a 40-something Bob Dylan before it was hijacked by youthful Idol contestants, so it’s curious to hear it back in the hands of an aging male vocalist. Accompanied by a clean electric guitar, Diamond’s recording is unadorned and largely unremarkable, though there’s some grace in its absence of fluff. Interestingly, Diamond changes up the vocal melody of the chorus but sticks to Cohen’s 1984 lyric sheet. —ZS

18. Jake Hamilton (Freedom Calling, 2011): Here’s an odd (albeit interesting) one. The Christian worship singer’s “Hallelujah” starts strong, with a driving rock approach that’s admirably unique in the “Hallelujah” canon. Then, a misguided and overwrought explosion that seems to hit climax before the song is half over. And a guitar solo! Then—wait for it—an ethereal interlude with Hamilton’s own inserted lyrics (“In a still and quiet place / We still can feel his warm embrace”). Another build-up. Another cacophonous guitar climax, some heady drum rolls, and a full 60 seconds of seemingly impromptu audience accompaniment. A truly bizarre marathon interpretation that is so entertaining it is worth hearing. —ZS

17. Fadi Peter (YouTube performance, 2014): One of the great indignities of writing a song as memorable (and singable) as “Hallelujah” is that people use it to hang all kinds of stuff on. Like this Christmas carol version (“The shepherds left their flocks by night/To see this baby wrapped in light”), which must have surprised the Zen Jew Cohen. Got your wisemen three. —SE

16. Bono (Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1995): Dubby drum machines, faux-rap delivery and falsetto squeals, oh my. An amusingly weird, if not quite successful, attempt. In The Holy or the Broken, Bono apologizes for this sub-Zooropa bastardization (“I didn’t just let myself down, or my parents, I let the whole school down”), but it’s miles more fun than the thousandth American Idol run-through. —ZS

15. Jason Castro (Jason Castro, 2010): The dreadlocked American Idol star’s recording is stripped down and passable, even if it has little to add to previous versions. In 2008, the singer’s Idol performance reportedly shot Jeff Buckley’s cover up the charts. At least that’s a public service. —ZS

14. Meghan Gray (Just Pieces of Me, 2014): An entirely adept acoustic take from a largely anonymous 16-year-old singer with a smoky voice from Ware, England. Difficult to find much information about her online, but easy to find on Spotify. —ZS

13. Chris Botti (Chris Botti in Boston, 2009): An easy-listening trumpet performance of “Hallelujah” sounds dreadful in theory, and yet I like the silky, minimalistic sound of Botti’s interpretation, and the odd liberties he takes with the melodic phrasings. Plus, he keeps it short and sweet. —ZS

12. Hannah Trigwell (The Cover Sessions, 2011): More proof that pretty much anyone with some worthwhile vocal range can upload a cover of the track and wind up with five million YouTube plays, the English singer-songwriter’s version is faithfully sung and sparsely accompanied in the style of Jeff Buckley’s immortal cover. —ZS

11. Brian Crain (Piano and Light, 2011): A muted and delicate instrumental rendering of the song for piano. Hard to mess this one up. —ZS

10. Jake Shimabukuro (Peace Love Ukulele, 2011): Any great song should be able to pass the ukulele test, and the Hawaiian-born Shimabukuro takes “Hallelujah” for a serious spin here, grimacing like Carlos Santana when he picks the opening notes before settling into some Segovia-like phrasing, and then crushing the chords like Townshend. Sing along if you like, Jake’s not going to. —SE

9. Paramore (The Final Riot!, 2008): Is this one even a cover? Sort of! More specifically: The popular Tennessee-based band performs an excerpt from the track on its 2008 live LP just before launching into its own track, also named “Hallelujah.” Vocalist Hayley Williams’s octave leap is impressive enough; you wish she’d finish off the track. —ZS

8. Leonard Cohen (Various Positions, 1984): Want a laugh? Play Cohen’s original 1984 recording of the track out of context for pretty much anyone who isn’t a Cohen devotee. “Who’s this guy and why’s he butchering the melody?” they might ask. “What’s with the talk-singing and the cheesy bass synth? He can’t sing it! And the lyrics are off!” (Regina Spektor says her reaction to hearing Cohen’s version was: “Why did he add all this other stuff?”) Here’s the thing: They’re not wrong! Various Positions marked a critical and commercial disappointment in Cohen’s career, and though the recording is a fascinating artifact, the singer turned out not to be the best performer of his own standard. Like 'All Along the Watchtower' before it, “Hallelujah” is the rare classic song that remained somehow unfinished until the right interpreter came along and found it. —ZS

7. Brandi Carlile (Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony, 2011): Seems 2011 was a big year for “Hallelujah.” The pairing of orchestral string arrangements with otherwise spare guitar arpeggios is an interesting choice, and so are Carlile’s odd vocal syncopations on the verses. The climax is big but not cheesy, and obviously indebted to Buckley’s rendering. —ZS

6. Bob Dylan (various live performances, 1988): In the late ’80s, at a time when American Idol didn’t exist and Rufus Wainwright was in high school, Dylan was among the first to grasp the potential of “Hallelujah.” (One anecdote has him asking Cohen how long it took to write, to which the singer replied, “A couple of years.” Cohen asked the same of Dylan’s “I and I” and Dylan replied, “Fifteen minutes.”) Not knowing the song would later come to prominence as a theatrical ballad, Dylan began playing it on his 1988 tour as an uptempo blues-rock shuffle. Dylan’s gravelly, impatient delivery is a treat (“Halle-looooo-ya!”), and the version’s recklessness is charming, as is its total unawareness of the melodic phrasings Cale and Buckley would soon popularize. (Dylan never recorded the track, but you can hear two sample renditions here.) —ZS

5. k.d. lang(Hymns of the 49th Parallel, 2004): There’s no single tipping point when an international moratorium on “Hallelujah” started to seem like a good idea, but lang’s performance at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics is as good a guess as any. But when she recorded the song half a decade earlier, for 2004’s Hymns of the 49th Parallels, she became one of the last great contemporaries of Cohen to make the song her own—just before it slid into American Idol oblivion. Like most piano-driven versions, this one owes a lot more to Cale’s “Hallelujah” than Cohen’s (like most modern interpreters, she rescues Cohen’s abandoned “How to shoot somebody who outdrew ya” verse), but the vocal take is uniquely her own, a performance that is smooth and fluid as it slides up and down the scales, but never soulless. —ZS

4. Regina Spektor (concert for the Jewish Heritage Festival, 2005): Russian-born “anti-folk” star Spektor never actually recorded “Hallelujah,” which is a minor tragedy of its own. Her version, performed live at the Jewish Heritage Festival when she was just 25, is vulnerable, searching and understated in the best ways. Even the accompaniment is strangely muted and minimalist, though the staccato cello notes and increasingly prominent swells are a gorgeous touch. And instead of culminating with artificial climax, the song fades into near-silence. As “Hallelujah” chronicler Alan Light notes, Spektor’s version “attains some of the triumphant confusion that Cohen intends.” —ZS

3. Rufus Wainwright (Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture, 2001): Wainwright’s take is lovely, unadorned and efficient in tempo—and similar enough that hardly anyone noticed when it was swapped in for Cale’s on the Shrek soundtrack. (Cale’s pops up in the film, though legend has it producers wanted a Dreamworks artist for the soundtrack. The boost to Wainwright’s career was immediate, and deservedly so.) The timing of Wainwright’s recording marked a sort of watershed mark for the song’s popularity, and because of its soundtrack placement, it remains overwhelmingly recognizable among younger audiences. —ZS

2. Jeff Buckley (Grace, 1994): So many of the song’s fans believe Buckley wrote “Hallelujah,” and he may as well have, in a sense: He reimagined it in remarkable ways and brought it to popular light, even if he never lived to see the effect. Buckley’s unforgettable recording, which serves as the centerpiece of 1994’s Grace, opens with a literal exhale and closes with Buckley dragging out the titular exultation for 10 soaring seconds. In between, the singer deconstruct’s Cohen’s song as a trembling, achingly raw solo performance set to lilting electric guitar figures. There are highlights: the way Buckley’s voice threatens to crack on the “Cold and broken” phrase, the way his murmur rises suddenly to a shout around the six-minute mark, the way the ebb-and-flow guitar arpeggio first enters the track 47 seconds in. Buckley described the song as “a hallelujah to the orgasm…an ode to life and love,” and his version is a dreamlike gift that guarantees a lasting legacy for the late performer. —ZS

1. John Cale (I’m Your Fan, 1991): Sparse, haunting, and impeccably sung, the former Velvet Underground member teased out the song’s melody in a way Leonard Cohen never could. Though he didn’t write the song, Cale’s interpretation rescued “Hallelujah” from permanent obscurity and established what it could—and should—sound like, rescuing several deserving verses from the cutting room floor in the process. (Legend has it Cohen faxed him 15 pages’ worth of abandoned lyrics.) For the piano phrasings alone, Cale deserves credit (or blame) for every “Hallelujah” that has come since. —ZS

*A quick note: Though Cohen may previously have sung it in more intimate settings, Setlist.fm, The Holy or the Broken author Alan Light and 1heckofaguy.com moderator Allan Showalter—“arguably the greatest living Cohen expert”—each confirm that Cohen’s January 31, 1985 show marks the first known performance of the song.

Joshua Winslow Groban (born February 27, 1981)^[2] is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. His first four solo albums have been certified multi-platinum, and he was charted in 2007 as the number-one best selling artist in the United States, with over 22.3 million records.^[3][4] As of 2012, he had sold over 25 million records worldwide.^[5]

Groban originally studied acting, but moved to singing as his voice developed. Groban attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, a free public school on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, where students receive a conservatory-style education.^[6]David Foster called Groban to stand in for an ailing Andrea Bocelli to rehearse a duet, 'The Prayer', with Celine Dion at the rehearsal for the 1998 Grammy Awards.^[7]Rosie O'Donnell immediately invited him to appear on her talk show.^[8] Foster asked him to sing at the California Governor's Gray Davis' 1999 inauguration.^[6][9] He was cast on Ally McBeal by the show's creator, David E. Kelley, performing 'You're Still You' for the 2001 season 4 finale.^[10]

• 2Music career
• 11Filmography

Early life[edit]

Josh Groban was born in Los Angeles, California, to Jack Groban, a businessman, and Lindy Groban (née Johnston), a school teacher.^[11][12] Josh's younger brother, Chris, was born on Josh's fourth birthday.^[13] Josh's father is a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Ukraine,^[14][15] and converted from Judaism to Christianity upon marrying Josh's mother.^[13] Josh's mother's ancestry includes English, German, and Norwegian; one of her own grandfathers had also been Jewish.^{[16][17][18][15]} His parents are Episcopalians.^[8]

Groban first sang in public when he was in the seventh grade. His music teacher chose him to sing a solo of 'S'wonderful' at the school's cabaret night, where he sang alone on stage for the first time.^[19] At this time, he was more focused on acting, playing Tevye in his high school's production of Fiddler on the Roof.^[8] In the summers of 1997 and 1998, he also attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts Camp in Michigan,^[14] majoring in music theater, and began taking vocal lessons. He went on to attend the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major and graduated in 1999.^[14] He was admitted to and briefly attended Carnegie Mellon University, intending to study musical theatre, but left four months into his first semester after being offered a recording contract and deciding to pursue his singing career.^[14]

Music career[edit]

1998–2001: Debut[edit]

In late 1998, the 17-year-old Groban was introduced by his vocal coach, Seth Riggs, to Grammy-winning producer and arranger David Foster and future manager Brian Avnet.^{[20][not in citation given]} At the time, Groban had no recording experience and was preparing to begin studying at Carnegie Mellon University.^[20] Groban worked for David Foster as a rehearsal singer on a series of high-profile events, including the January 1999 inauguration of Gray Davis as Governor of California and the 1999 Grammy Awards where—as a stand-in for Andrea Bocelli—he rehearsed Foster's 'The Prayer' with Céline Dion. According to manager Avnet, Groban was very nervous about standing in for Bocelli and had to be talked into it, but his performance prompted the show hostess, Rosie O'Donnell, to ask him to appear on her show the following week, which then led to an appearance on Ally McBeal.^[20] Creator David E. Kelley created character Malcolm Wyatt for Groban in the season finale aired in May 2001. The character of Malcolm Wyatt was so popular, prompting 8,000 emails from viewers,^[21] that Groban was asked to return the next season to reprise his role and perform 'To Where You Are.' Avnet claims this sequence of events effectively got Groban's career off the ground.^[20]

Groban was offered a recording contract at Warner Bros. Records through Foster's 143 Records imprint. Avnet told HitQuarters that Warner initially proved resistant to the deal because 'They were afraid they wouldn't be able to get a voice like that on radio.'^[20] Explaining his reasons for signing the artist, Foster said: 'I love his natural ability in the pop and rock arena, but I love his sense of classics even more. He's a true musical force to be reckoned with.'^[21] Under Foster's influence, Groban's first album focused more on classics such as 'Gira Con Me Questa Notte' and 'Alla Luce Del Sole.'

Groban performed 'There For Me' with Sarah Brightman on her 2000–01 La Luna World Tour, and was featured on her 'La Luna' concert DVD. He recorded 'For Always' with Lara Fabian on the movie soundtrack to A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Groban performed in many benefit shows, including: 'The Andre Agassi Grand Slam Event For Children,' singing alongside Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Don Henley, and Robin Williams; 'Muhammad Ali's Fight Night Foundation' which honored Michael J. Fox and others; 'The Family Celebration' (2001), which was co-hosted by President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton, and David E. Kelley and his wife, Michelle Pfeiffer; and Michael Milken's CapCure event, which raises funds for cancer research.

The singer's self-titled debut album Josh Groban was released on November 20, 2001. Over the next year it went from gold to double-platinum.^[22]

2002–2005: Closer[edit]

On February 24, 2002, Groban performed 'The Prayer' with Charlotte Church at the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and by November, he had his own PBS special, 'Josh Groban In Concert' (2002). In December 2002, he performed 'To Where You Are' and sang 'The Prayer' in a duet with Sissel Kyrkjebø at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway. He joined The Corrs, Ronan Keating, Sting, Lionel Richie, and others for a Christmas performance at the Vatican in Rome, Italy. In 2003, Groban performed at the David Foster concert for World Children's Day, singing 'The Prayer' with Celine Dion and the finale song, 'Aren't They All Our Children?' with artists including Yolanda Adams, Nick Carter, Enrique Iglesias, and Celine Dion.

Groban's second album Closer, produced and written by Foster, was released on November 11, 2003. Groban said that he believed that this second album was a better reflection of him, and that his audience would be able to get a better idea of his personality from listening to it.

Two months after Closer was released, it rose on the Billboard charts from number 11 to number one.^[23] Groban's cover of 'You Raise Me Up' became his third most popular song on the adult contemporary charts as of March 2004. Later that year, he also performed the song 'Remember' (with Tanja Tzarovska) on the Troy soundtrack, 'Believe' on the soundtrack to the 2004 animated film The Polar Express and a cover of Linkin Park's 'My December'.

In the summer of 2004, Groban returned to Interlochen, performing and discussing his earlier experiences with local residents and campers. On November 30, 2004, his second live DVD, Live At The Greek, was released; it was also shown as a Great Performances special on PBS. Also in 2004, Groban performed 'Remember When It Rained,' backed by a full orchestra, at the American Music Awards, where he was nominated for Favorite Male Artist in the pop category; he was also nominated for a People's Choice Award in that year. His recording of 'Believe' secured a 2005 Academy Award nomination for the song's two writers, Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri,^[24] and earned them a Grammy in the category Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media at the ceremony held in February 2006.^[25]

2005–2010: Awake[edit]

Groban earned his first Grammy nomination in 2005 for his single 'You Raise Me Up' in the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance category. During the first week of September 2006, Groban's single entitled 'You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)' was released exclusively on AOL's First Listen. His third studio album Awake was officially released on November 7, 2006. Groban performed 'You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)' as well as two other tracks from Awake at his recording session for Live from Abbey Road at Abbey Road Studios on 26 October 2006. On that album, Groban also collaborated on the single 'Now or Never' with British musician and songwriter Imogen Heap. He performed two tracks with the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, 'Lullaby' and 'Weeping.' Groban's 'Awake' world tour visited 71 cities between February and August 2007, and toured Australia and the Philippines with Lani Misalucha as his special guest in October 2007. He performed a duet with Barbra Streisand ('All I Know of Love') and with Mireille Mathieu ('Over the Rainbow'). As to his future, Groban was open to a plethora of possibilities. He said, 'I am fortunate enough to have had many really big moments in my career. I think the mistake a lot of people in my position make is to always search for the next big thing. I am looking forward to playing some small theaters. I'm looking forward to writing more. I want to delve further into my acting career and explore some of the film and TV opportunities that I haven't had time for. My outlook is to expect the unexpected. And when the next step comes, I'm prepared to take it.'^[10]

2010–2015: Illuminations; All That Echoes[edit]

Groban finished his fifth studio album, entitled Illuminations, and the album was released on November 15, 2010.^[26] Most of the songs on the album are about 'specific situations that I've had where love has existed and ultimately failed,' Groban told The New York Times, adding: 'And other songs are about the quest, and it just not working out.' Groban wrote 11 of the 13 songs on the album.^[27] The first single from the album, 'Hidden Away,' was made available for free download via Facebook on September 8.^[28] 'For me to sit in a room with a piano in one take with some of Johnny Cash's musicians—that was totally new for me.' Josh added. 'and I think that excitement is on the record.'^[27] On October 12, a second single from the upcoming album, 'Você Existe Em Mim', was made available on iTunes.^[29] This song is sung in Portuguese and was written by Brazilian artist Carlinhos Brown. The Washington Post said: 'Illuminations' is not a revelation, but it offers a perfectly fine, and often quite lovely, glimpse at a pop-classical crossover artist in the middle of crossing over.'^[30] Groban plans on making one more record with Rick Rubin.^[31] Beginning May 12, 2011 and continuing through December of that year, Groban undertook the 81-city Straight to You Tour to promote Illuminations, encompassing appearances in North America, Europe, and South Africa.^[32]

Groban's sixth studio album, All That Echoes was released on February 5, 2013, debuting at number one by selling 141,000 copies.^[33][34] Groban promoted the album with the All That Echoes World Tour in 2013. A year later, he embarked on his Summer Symphony Tour.^[35]

2015–2017: Stages and Broadway debut[edit]

In March 2015, Josh Groban's Facebook page announced the release of the album Stages, consisting of covers of songs from Broadway musicals. The album was released on April 28, 2015.^[36]

Starting October 18, 2016, Groban performed on Broadway as Pierre Bezukhov in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera by composer Dave Malloy based on War and Peace.^[37] For his performance as Pierre, Groban was nominated for the 2017 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. His final performance as Pierre was on July 2, 2017.^[38] Groban also performed the song 'Evermore' during the end credits of the 2017 Disney film Beauty and the Beast.^[39]

2018: Bridges[edit]

On March 11, 2018, tour dates were announced for Groban's Bridges Tour with special guest Idina Menzel. The US leg of the tour began on October 18, 2018, in Duluth, Georgia and concluded at Madison Square Garden in New York City on November 18. The European leg of the tour begins on December 12 at the O2 Arena in London and concludes on December 18 in Poland.^[40]

On June 26, 2018, Groban announced via social media that his album Bridges will be released on September 21 and will contain a cover of Céline Dion's song 'S'il suffisait d'aimer' along with new tracks.^[41] The album debuted at number two in the US^[42] and in the top 10 in the UK^[43] and Scotland.^[44]

Performances[edit]

In June 2007, Groban recorded a Christmas album in London with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Magdalen College Choir, which he discussed on the DVD from 'The Making of Noël'. It was released on October 9, 2007, and is titled Noël.^[45] The album has been highly successful in the U.S., breaking numerous records for a Christmas album, as well as becoming the best selling album of 2007 in only its tenth week of release, at sales of 3.6 million.^[46]

On July 1, 2007, Groban performed with Sarah Brightman at the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium; it was broadcast to over 500 million homes in 140 countries.On February 10, 2008, Groban performed at the 2008 Grammy Awards with Andrea Bocelli in a tribute to Luciano Pavarotti.

On April 14, 2008, Groban joined Idina Menzel for a PBSSoundstage taping. The next day, he held his own taping for the same PBS TV series at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall at Jazz in Manhattan.

On May 12 and 13, 2008 At Royal Albert Hall, London, Groban performed as 'The Russian' Anatoly Sergievsky; joining with Broadway stars Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal in 'Chess in Concert' a live concert version of the musical Chess composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA fame. This performance has since been made into a DVD and CD recording.^[47]On September 21, 2008, Groban performed a comical medley of well-known TV theme songs at the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.In December 2008, Groban appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He performed a duet with Only Men Aloud! at the Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium for the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.^[48]

On January 18, 2009, Groban performed as part of the Presidential Inauguration ceremonies, performing 'My Country 'Tis of Thee' in duet with Heather Headley.^[49]On January, 19. 2009, Groban performed with Herbie Hancock as part of Feeding America's Rally Against Hunger in Washington DC. At the 2010 BCS National Championship Game, he performed the Star Spangled Banner on Jan. 7, 2010, with Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, at the historic Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

Film and television appearances[edit]

Groban has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show six times,^[10] as well as on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Larry King Live, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Comedy Bang! Bang!, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 20/20, Today, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Super Bowl XXXVIII, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also been a guest co-host on Live with Kelly many times from 2011 to 2016, and was a finalist to permanently replace Regis Philbin.^[50] In a 2012 interview, Groban said:

Groban plays Malcolm Wyatt, one of Reverend Harris' choirboys, on Ally McBeal, episodes 'The Wedding' and 'Nine One One' (2001). He has made two guest appearances on the series Glee as himself.^[52]

Groban appeared on BBC Two's hit British music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and his first appearance was as a guest on Omid Djalili's team. On December 21, 2010, he returned to the show, this time as guest host/quiz master and ending the show duetting with Michael Ball in a version of 'I Dreamed a Dream' from Les Miserables.

Groban appears in two episodes of The Office as Andy Bernard's brother ('Garden Party' and 'The Boat').^[53]

On May 24, 2011, Groban appeared as a mystery guest star on the season 12 finale of Dancing with the StarsHasbi rabbi jallallah naat download mp3. to surprise Petra Nemcova by singing 'You Raise Me Up' to her dance. When she saw that it was he who was actually singing and not one of the usual performers, she momentarily was too stunned to continue dancing.

In the comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love., a film starring Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling, released on July 29, 2011, Groban played a character named Richard, a caddish and nerdy attorney.^[54][55]

In 2012, he appeared in episode 5 of series 12 of the revived British comedy panel showRoom 101. In October the same year, his cover of 'You Raise Me Up' was used in the Halloween-based teen comedy film, Fun Size in which Peng turns on the car stereo in Roosevelt's car and while he and Roosevelt are fighting over it, the knob breaks and the stereo blares the song at full volume, thus making Roosevelt, Wren, Peng and April uncool as they roll onto a night-cruising street. In February 2013, Groban appeared in CSI: NY's 'Blood Actually' (season 9, episode 16), performing his new song 'Happy In My Heartache',^[56] and guest anchored on Canada AM.^[57]

Also in 2013, he played one of the lead characters named Sam in the independent comedy film Coffee Town, produced by CollegeHumor and co-starring with longtime friend actor Glenn Howerton.

Groban appeared on the cable television comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in episode 'The Gang Saves the Day', the 100th of the series, also co-starring Howerton. He shows up in the character Dee's fantasy sequence. On November 7, 2013, he made the first of several appearances in the CBS comedy The Crazy Ones alongside Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar.^[58][59]

Groban appeared in the 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted as an unnamed prisoner in a maximum security prison in Siberia. Groban's character is first only heard, as he is in a large metal box with a small slot at around eye level. The actor is revealed in the musical number 'Together Again' later at the end of the film.^[60]

In 2015, he appeared as a cameo in the seventh season of Parks and Recreation.

In 2017, Groban cameoed as himself on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, where he sang the original song 'The End of the Movie'.

In September 2018 Netflix premiered an original murder-mystery, The Good Cop, starring Groban.^[61] In the series, created by Monk creator-writer Andy Breckman, Groban portrays NYPDhomicide detective Tony Caruso, Jr., opposite Tony Danza, who plays his father, Tony Sr., a disgraced former detective.^[62] The first season of ten episodes launched on September 21, 2018.

Voice[edit]

Various music critics have described Groban's voice in different ways, with some referring to him as a tenor^[63] and others as a baritone.^[64][65] In performance, Groban's music goes as low as G₂ (as in the songs 'To Where You Are' and 'Higher Window') and extends up to at least B₄ (as heard in 'The Duel' from Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812^[66]). This places his voice lower than the tenor range on the low end, and just short of tenor C, and therefore above the baritone range, on the high end.^[67][68]

There is no authoritative system of voice classification in non-classical music. The problem lies in the fact that classical terms are used to describe not merely various vocal ranges, but specific vocal timbres each unique to those respective ranges, and produced by the classical training techniques with which most popular singers are not intimately familiar and which are not universally employed by the few that are. In a 2002 New York Times article, Groban described himself as a 'tenor in training'.^[69] He mentioned during his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in December 2013 that he is a high lyric baritone.^{[citation needed]} On Twitter, in March 2012, he had also mentioned that he is a baritone 'with some high notes up my sleeve.'^[70]

Philanthropy[edit]

Under the guidance of his mentor David Foster, Groban performed for many charity events that included VH1 Save the Music Foundation (2005), Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope (2005), Fifth Annual Adopt-A-Minefield concert (2005), 2nd Annual Grammy Jam (2005), Live 8 (2005), The Heart Foundation Gala (2005), and David Foster and Friends Charity Gala (2006).^[71] He also sang a solo on the recording of We Are The World 25 for Haiti (2010). Inspired by a visit with Nelson Mandela during a 2004 trip to South Africa, he established the Josh Groban Foundation to help children in need through education, healthcare and the arts. Mandela appointed Groban as an Official Ambassador for Mandela's Project 46664, a campaign to help raise Global awareness of HIV/AIDS in Africa. On April 25, 2007, Groban performed with the African Children's Choir on American Idol's 'Idol Gives Back' episode. Also on September 2, 2007, Groban donated $150,000 to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to fund music education.^[72]

On February 28, 2008, he appeared in One Night Live at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada with Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Jann Arden and RyanDan in aid of the Sunnybrook Hospital Women and Babies Program. In honor of his 27th birthday, his fans set out to raise $27,000 in a project called 'Raise 27'. They ended up raising a total of $44,227 for the Josh Groban Foundation, to benefit the Noah's Ark children's orphanage called Siyawela in South Africa. Groban has since referred to this donation as 'the best birthday present ever'.^[73] Groban performed at The Angel Ball on October 21, 2010 to benefit the Gabrielles Angel Foundation for cancer research. In April 2013 and the previous year, Groban took part in Global Poverty Project's 'Live Below the Line' campaign, which consists in living on $1.50 a day to raise awareness of extreme poverty around the world. He also wrote a song inspired by the campaign.^[74]

On October 30, 2013, Groban met with Little Kids Rock students in Newark, NJ before his concert at the Prudential Center. His Find Your Light Foundation also made a donation to Little Kids Rock to support their mission of keeping music education in our public schools.^[75] An active arts education philanthropist and advocate, Groban is a member of Americans for the Arts Artists Committee.^[76]

Impact[edit]

Some of Groban's musical influences have been Radiohead, Steve Perry, Paul Simon, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Freddie Mercury^[77] and Björk. He cites as vocal influences 'anyone who told a story with their songs,' including Mandy Patinkin, Klaus Nomi, George Hearn, and Luciano Pavarotti.^[78]

He was named the Best Selling Artist of All Time on Barnes & Noble in 2007.^{[citation needed]} Groban has sold more than 20 million albums in less than ten years. In 2002, Groban was listed as '100 Sexiest Newcomer' and in 2008, he became one of People's '100 Most Beautiful People'.^[79]

Discography[edit]

Studio albums

• Josh Groban (2001)
• Closer (2003)
• Awake (2006)
• Noël (2007)
• Illuminations (2010)
• All That Echoes (2013)
• Stages (2015)
• Bridges (2018)

Concert tours[edit]

Headlining

• Closer Tour(2004–05)^[80]
• Awake Tour(2007)^[81]
• Straight to You Tour(2011)^[82]
• All That Echoes World Tour(2013)^[83]
• Josh Groban on Stage(2015–16)^[84]
• Bridges Tour(2018)

Symphonic

• All That Echoes Symphony Tour (2013)^[85]
• Summer Symphony Tour(2014)^[86]

Promotional

• Before We Begin (2010)^[87]

Personal life[edit]

Groban dated actress January Jones from 2003 to 2006 and Kat Dennings from 2014 to 2016.^[88]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

Theatre[edit]

Awards and nominations[edit]

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External links[edit]

• Josh Groban at AllMusic
• Josh Groban on IMDb
• Josh Groban at the Internet Broadway Database
• Josh Groban discography at Discogs