Rob Halford

Robert John Arthur Halford was born on August 25, 1951 in Sutton Coldfield, but raised in Walsall, which was then a part of Staffordshire a town to the northwest of Birmingham, in England's modern day West Midlands. Rob Halford is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the heavy metal band Judas Priest. Halford has a four-and-a-half octave vocal range, having demonstrated range from D2 to C♯6. He is one of the most respected singers of heavy metal and rock music with a quasi-operatic vocal style and high-pitched screams. He has been nicknamed "Metal God" as a tribute to his influence on metal, after the Judas Priest song of the same name from 1980's British Steel. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, though he also maintains residences in San Diego, California, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, as well as a home in his native Walsall, United Kingdom. Halford was voted Hit Parader's Heavy Metal's 2nd Best Vocalist of all-time respectively, behind Robert Plant, surpassing any other vocalists of his era.