Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard; 3 November 1954) is an English singer and musician. He gained popularity as the lead singer of new wave group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring 10 UK top ten hits from 1980 to 1983, including three UK No. 1 singles. He has also worked as an actor, appearing in over two dozen films and television episodes from 1985 to 2003.\n', '

Since 2010, Ant has undertaken an intense reactivation of his musical career, performing live regularly in his hometown of London and beyond, recording and releasing a new album and completing six full-length UK national tours, four US national tours, and two Australian tours and with a fifth US tour scheduled and a further album completed and awaiting release.\n', '

Stuart Goddard was born an only child in Marylebone, London to Leslie Alfred Goddard and Betty Kathleen Smith. Home was two rooms in De Walden buildings, St John\'s Wood.:5 He recalls: "There was no luxury, but there was always food on the table." His father had served in the Royal Air Force and worked as a chauffeur, and his mother was an embroiderer for Norman Hartnell.:4 He is of partial Romani descent; his maternal grandfather, Walter Albany Smith, was Romanichal.:10 This heritage would become a basis for a theme in his later work: a concern for oppressed minorities. \n', '

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