Transcript Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield
Part c
Mike Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English
multi-instrumentalist musician and composer,
working a style that blends progressive rock with
such genres as folk, ethnic or world music, classical
music, electronic music, New Age, and more
recently, dance. He is best known for his 1973 hit
album Tubular Bells, which launched Virgin Records,
and for his 1983 hit single "Moonlight Shadow". He is
also well known for his hit rendition of the
Christmas piece "In Dulci Jubilo".
Oldfield and his siblings were raised Roman Catholic, the faith of their Irish
mother. In the late 1970s, Oldfield briefly married Diana D'Aubigny (the sister
of the Exegesis group leader), but this lasted just a few weeks.
Mike Oldfield has seven children. In the early 1980s, he had three children
with Sally Cooper (Molly, Dougal and Luke). In the late 1980s, he had two
children (Greta and Noah) with Norwegian singer Anita Hegerland. In the
2000s, he married Fanny Vandekerckhove (born 1977), whom he met during
his time in Ibiza; they have two sons together (Jake and Eugene).
He also noted in an interview in 2008 that he had two boats.[36]
In November 2006, musician Noel Gallagher won a Spanish court case against
Oldfield. Gallagher had bought an Ibiza villa for £2.5 million from Oldfield in
1999, but quickly discovered that part of the cliff-top property was falling into
the sea. According to The Sun, the resulting court case awarded Gallagher a sixfigure sum in compensation.
In 2007 Oldfield caused a minor stir in the British press by criticising Britain for
being too controlling and protective, specifically concentrating on the smoking
ban which England and Wales had introduced that year. Oldfield then moved from
his Gloucestershire home to Palma de Mallorca, Spain.[37][38] He has lived outside
the UK in the past, including living in Los Angeles and Ibiza in the 1990s, and
Switzerland in the mid-1980s, for tax reasons. He also currently has a home in
Monaco. In 2009 he decided to move to the Bahamas, and put his home in
Mallorca up for sale.[39][40]
I chose this person because I find
him a really good musician and
made good songs over his carrier
and he has inspired me to be a
musician so that’s why I chose
him