James Harrison

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**James Steven Harrison**(born February 6, 1984) is an English singer-songwriter, who is considered to be one of the greatest metal singers and songwriters of all-time. Despite this Harrison is probably best known for his multiple marriages, throughout his life Harrison has been married nine times to seven differents women, and includes two marriages to both Scarlett Johansson and Lana Del Rey.

Harrison's career began in the melodic death metal genre, his fourth album *My Sweet Shadow* released in 2004 saw a change to alternative metal but still contained elements of melodic death metal, this remained until 2008's *The Chosen Pessimist* which was purely alternative metal. He also also experimented with hard rock as see in *Wrong Side of Haven* and *The Agony of Regret* and also with doom and gothic metal as seen in *Day and Then the Shade* and his most recent album *The Winter of Our Passing*. He has also experimented with deathcore in collaborations with Arch Enemy's lead singers Angela Gossow and Alissa White-Gluz

Harrison has released a total of 14 studio albums all of which have reached number one in the UK and US, putting him second with the most number one albums in each both times behind The Beatles. Harrison's eighth studio album *Sounds of a Playground Fading* is one of the most successful in history, it has also 80 million copies and is the best-selling of all-time and recieved 11 Grammy Awards. Harrison has sold an estimated 750 million records, making him the best-selling musical artist of all-time. Harrison has achieved a record 24 UK number one singles and 21 *Billboard* Hot 100 number ones.

Harrison is also the lead singer of deathcore band X Nation alongside his four eldest children; Charlotte, Luke, Lily and Peyton.

## Discography

*Main article: James Harrison discography*

* *...As the Future Repeats Today* (2000)
* *Dismiss the Cynics* (2002)
* *My Sweet Shadow* (2004)
* *Our Infinite Struggle* (2006)
* *The Chosen Pessimist* (2008)
* *Day and Then the Shade* (2010)
* *Sounds of a Playground Fading* (2011)
* *The Agony of Regret* (2013)
* *When the World Explodes* (2014)
* *Us Against the World* (2016)
* *I, the Mask* (2019)
* *The Winter of Our Passing* (2020)
* *Threat of Your Presence* (2021)

## Personal Life

Harrison has been married nine times to seven different women, with two marriages to both Scarlett Johansson and Lana Del Rey. In 2016 followed his divorce from Armenian singer Iveta Mukuchyan, Harrison stated about his marriages "I've got to the point where I'm fed up with constant marriages and divorces. I simply want to find someone to settle down with. But I worry this will continue, I feel at this moment if I ever get to 10 I may just give up with marriage." His wives in chronolgical order, were:

* Scarlett Johansson (August 10, 2001 – November 2, 2004)
* Keira Knightley (June 10, 2005 – May 14, 2007)
* Carey Mulligan (February 17, 2008 – June 9, 2009)
* Lana Del Rey (February 26, 2010 – May 4, 2012)
* Scarlett Johansson (March 13, 2013 – June 11, 2014)
* Iveta Mukuchyan (May 30, 2015 – August 10, 2016)
* Evan Rachel Wood (November 3, 2016 – June 25, 2017)
* Ana de Marmas (November 9, 2017 – August 23, 2018)
* Lana Del Rey (May 10, 2019 – present)

Harrison has had 14 children, he had seven with Scarlett Johansson, two with Lana Del Rey and one with each of his other wives.