He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity. Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. He has had 10 number-one albums and 31 top ten singles in the UK, six of which reached number one. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 250 million records worldwide. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. Sir Roderick David Stewart CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer.
