Tongi auditioned with Jame Blunt’s 2019 hit 'Monsters', a tune Blunt wrote as a tribute to his father, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 Kidney Disease. Strumming an acoustic guitar, Tongi belted out the lyrics to the Blunt tune and all three of the Idol judges became visibly moved by his heartfelt performance. Tony Sirico, best known for his role as “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri on The Sopranos, has died. He was 79. Sirico passed away Friday at an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida James Blunt was born February 22, 1974, at a military hospital in Tidsworth, Hampshire, England. His father, Charles, was a retired colonel in the Army Air Corps, and he wasn’t the first Blunt 5′ 8′′. Net Worth. $18M. Social Profiles. James Blunt, ex-British Army officer, is a renowned English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the mid-2000s with his chart-topping debut album. With soulful vocals and personal lyrics, Blunt has become one of the most successful U.K. pop acts of the past two decades. Blunt still didn't set her sights on a career as a professional actress, as she instead aimed to work with languages and be an interpreter. But as fate would have it, she was selected for a school production — a rock opera entitled Bliss — that wound up going to the Edinburgh Festival, according to Harper's Bazaar. And in the audience was Margaret Thatcher discovered the identity of Anthony Blunt in 1979, when she was informed by the Prime Minister at the time, James Callaghan. Thatcher had been informed by the security services that Blunt had been a member of a Soviet spy ring in the 1940s, and that he was still employed by the British government as the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. cR0e. Just watched the video for @JamesBlunt #monsters the heartbreak having to (and being able to) say goodbye to a parent while they are still alive, a blessing and a curse — Fiona Stark (@FiStark It’s about what I wish I could’ve said to her when she was alive. What I wish I could say to her now.” James Blunt’s seventh studio album, Who We Used To Be , will be released on 27 October. As James Blunt fans prepare for his long-awaited 2024 tour, we take a look at the singer-songwriter's life offstage, from his marriage to an aristocratic wife, to the sad loss that inspired one of Tony Sirico, best known for his role as “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri on The Sopranos, has died. He was 79. Sirico passed away Friday at an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Like his father, Blunt is a pilot, gaining his fixed winged private pilot licence at age 16, and has a keen interest in motorcycles. 11. Having been sponsored through university on an army bursary, Blunt was committed to serve a minimum of four years in the armed forces. 12.

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