TEXAS MUSIC IS LOVED MEATLOAF For January 19th 2015 Michael Lee Aday was born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947 in Dallas Texas. He is a musician and actor best known by his stage name Meat Loaf. In 1965, he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, having already started his acting career via school productions such as Wheres Charley? and The Music Man. After attending college at Lubbock Christian College, he transferred to North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas in Denton). After receiving his inheritance upon the death of his mother, he rented an apartment in Dallas and isolated himself for three and a half months. Eventually a friend found him, encouraged him to buy a car and to go to California and pursue his acting and music. He did this to success by blending his two talents and is noted for the Bat Out of Hell music and rock opera album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose and his powerful vocals over a three-octave range. Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies worldwide. After 35 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. Although he enjoyed success with Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and earned a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song Id Do Anything for Love on the latter album, Meat Loaf experienced some initial difficulty establishing a steady career within his native USA. However, he has retained iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the UK, where he ranks 23rd for the number of weeks overall spent on the charts as of 2006. He is now in 2014, starting a run of performances in Las Vegas.
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