# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aqualung
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:14:26.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aqualung"
name: "Aqualung"
slug: "aqualung"
description: "Matthew Nicholas Hales is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer who has been performing professionally under the name Aqualung since the early 2000s. Aqualung is best known in the UK for his song \"Strange and Beautiful\", which was featured on a television advertisement for the new Volkswagen Beetle during the summer of 2002 and went on to become a top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart later that year. In the United States, Aqualung is also known for the song \"Brighter Than Sunshine\", which had considerable airplay and was used in the film A Lot Like Love and various television spots. Hales has released seven albums as Aqualung. The most recent, Dead Letters, appeared in 2022."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aqualung_at_Webster_Hall_September_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1972-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.25
  momentum:             0.6222654350996597
  historical:           9.47866
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/aqualungmusic"
    handle:    "aqualungmusic"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AqualungOfficial"
    handle:    "AqualungOfficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1580882/"
    handle:    "nm1580882"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.aqualung.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/87185"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqualung_(Musiker)"
    title: "Aqualung (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqualung_(musician)"
    title: "Aqualung (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqualung_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Aqualung (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqualung_(musicien)"
    title: "Aqualung (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqualung_(musicista)"
    title: "Aqualung (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0_(%E9%9F%B3%E6%A5%BD%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "アクアラング (音楽家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqualung_(musiker)"
    title: "Aqualung (musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hales"
    title: "Matt Hales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1b3e92d4-1c68-412d-a92d-1172f24f7de3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4474599"
    title: "Matt Hales"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump