Robert Wells

Robert Wells, a Swedish composer, pianist, and singer born on April 7, 1962, in Stockholm, first entered the recording industry toward the end of the 1980s and gained lasting recognition through his enduring stage spectacle Rhapsody in Rock. He began studies at the Royal Swedish Music Academy when he was just 11 years old. His commercial introduction arrived in 1987 via the single “Upp På Berget” and the self-titled album Robert Wells, both of which climbed into the Swedish Top 20. Two years afterward came the modestly received follow-up The Way I Feel (1988). In 1989 Wells unveiled Rhapsody in Rock, a production that fused classical elements with rock & roll and boogie-woogie; the recording reached the Top 30 and quickly led to two sequels, Rhapsody in Rock II (1990) and Rhapsody in Rock III (1993). After issuing the joint effort Norman and Wells with Charlie Norman in 1996, he returned in 1998 with Rhapsody in Rock: Complete, a freshly arranged edition of his signature work that surged to number six on the album chart. That success prompted a string of further releases—Rhapsody in Rock: World Wide Wells (2000), Rhapsody in Rock: Completely Live (2001), Rhapsody in Rock: The Complete Collection (2003), Rhapsody in Rock: Anniversary (2004), and The Best of Rhapsody 1998-2008 (2008)—most of which landed inside the Top Ten. In 2009 Wells achieved his highest-charting single to date, the number-one smash “Handful of Keys.”