#JosephTimeline

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Joseph Blackwoo’s Timeline

1985; Age 0

August 20th– Joseph Adam Blackwood is born in Hailfax, West Yorkshire to single mother, Anna Blackwood.

1990; Age 5

October – Joe’s biological father, Edmund Reese, reaches out to her mother asking for a chance to be part of his son’s life.

1991; Age 6

January – Joseph meets Edmund for the first time.

June – Anna and Edmund rekindle their relationship.

November – Edmund moves in with Anna and Joe.

December – Edmund gets fired from his job again.

1992; Age 7

January – Anna and Edmund start fighting because his inability to keep a steady job.

April – Edmund hits Anna for the first time.

November – Edmund hits Joe for the first time.

1993; Age 8

January – During a very heated fight, Edmund gets really violent towards Anna. Seeing his mother is in danger, Joseph takes a hold of Edmund’s gun and shoots him in the leg. Police arrive shortly after as neighbors call them when they hear the noise, Edmund is taken into custody while Anna is sent to the hospital, police call Joseph’s maternal grandparents who take care of him while his mother is recovering. During this time his mother presses charges against Edmund and he’s sent to jail. Joe and Anna move in with her parents while she tries to decide what to do next.

June – Anna Blackwood decides to start over, she starts looking for jobs in Boston as she starts planning to move there with her son.

August – Joseph moves to Manchester with his mother. Shortly after he meets Jackson Wright, a boy that lives next door, the two become best friends instantly.

2000; Age 15

August – Joseph gets his first job working at restaurant as a waiter. The restaurant has live music on the weekends, where Joe sometimes gets the chance to play and sing.

December Joseph starts dating classmate, Madeline Reed.

2002; Age 17

March – Madeline finds out she’s pregnant. After thinking about it over and over, Madeline decides to keep the baby even when she’s fearing retaliation from her parents.

April – After telling her parents about the pregnancy, Madeline gets kicked out of her home and starts living with Joe and his mother. Joseph picks up extra shifts at the restaurant and even goes as far as selling his guitar in order to take care of the medical expenses and prepare for the baby’s arrival.

June – Madeline has a miscarriage and loses the baby. Heartbroken, the couple doesn’t last long and a few weeks later Madeline moves back in with her parents after they take her back under the condition of never seeing Joseph again to which she agrees. Joseph writes Small Bump which is later included in his first album.

2003; Age 18

May – Joseph graduates from High School. He decides to move London to try his luck with music. There he starts singing in bars and restaurants while working as a waiter or a cook when he’s allowed to support himself while working on his music and sending demos to record labels hoping something will stick.

2004; Age 19

October – Discovered by a rapper, Zeph, Joe is invited to work in songs.

2005; Age 20

March – Joe releases his first independent EP which he promotes as goes on tour with Zeph as his opening act.

November – Joseph is offered a record deal in NWG records, he signs and he immediately starts working on his first album.

2006; Age 21

April – Joseph releases his single “The A Team” which serves as a lead single for his upcoming album. The single debuted at number three in the UK charts, selling over 58,000 copies during its first week.

August – His first album “+” is released and sales over 102,000 copies during its first week. The album becomes one of the highest selling albums by the end of the year, and Joseph begins to be recognized in the music industry and by the public.

2007; Age 22

February – At the 2006 Brit Awards, Joseph wins the award for Best British Solo Male Artist and British Breakthrough Act of The Year.

March – Joseph goes on tour again opening for a famous British band, Joe earns recognition as he gets to play at venues and stadiums all over Europe and the U.S.

2008; Age 23

January - "The A Team" received a nomination for Song of the Year at the 20107 Grammy Awards.

March – After a year of touring, Joseph begins to work harder for his second album, as well as writing and producing songs for other artists.

April – Joe begins to date British actress, Jenna Carter.

2009; Age 24

February – Joseph releases the first single to get his fans hyped about the new album, the song “Say You Won’t Let Go” gets a lot of attention and people know immediately he wrote it about his current relationship.

July – His second album, “The Chaos and The Calm” releases immediately getting great critiques by both the public and the industry.

2010; Age 25

June – Joe goes on his first solo tour through UK.

November – Due to their busy schedules and the tension that created in their relationship Joe and Jenna break up.

December – Joe’s tour ends.

2011; Age 26      

June – Joseph begins to date singer Nina Lott, she was his opening act during his tour.

August – Joseph release an EP called “No.5 collaborations” full with songs he worked with other artists over the past few years. Joseph travels to the U.S. to live there for a couple of months to work on songs and produce albums for other artists so he is able to take a break from his own solo career.

2012; Age 27

January – Joe is officially back in the UK.

March – Tired of their schedules being so different most of the time, Nina breaks up with Joseph.

2013; Age 28

April – Joe releases the first single of his third album, “X, the single “Sing” reaches the top of the chars during the first few days.

June – “X” is released and peaked at number one in both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200.

August – Joseph goes on a world tour to support the album.

December – Joseph’s album is nominated for Album of The Year at the Grammy Awards.

2014; Age 29

July – Joe’s tour ends.

October – Joe begins to date actress Elise Huffman.

2015; Age 30

January – As his mother is diagnoses with cancer, Joseph decides to focus on his relationship and his mother; working only to write and produce songs for other artists at the time being.

2017; Age 32

February – Joseph releases the first single of his fourth album called “Oh My Messy Mind”.

June – The album is released.

October – The announcement of his next tour is made; tickets are sold out quickly.

2018; Age 33

February – Joe goes on tour.

June – He proposes to Elise and she accepts.

2019; Age 34

January – Joseph and Elise break up after he finds out she had been cheating on him.

November – Jumping back into work, releases a single to tease his new album. The single “Be Alright” reaches the top of the charts once more and its immediately speculated that the song is about his breakup with Elise.

2020; Age 35

January – His fifth album is released.

March – Joe goes on tour.

December – Tour ends.

2020; Age 36

July – Joseph meets Aurora Larson.