On March 2, 1977, he was born Chris Martinthe lead singer and co-founder of Coldplay, one of the most famous bands in the world. When he turns 47, we review a stage that was crucial in his life And that definitely marked. Those years of his childhood and adolescence in which, He not only discovered his passion for music. A strict Christian training took him to face “terrible crises” and internal struggles in which his sexuality was questioned. As he himself has acknowledged in ‘Rolling Stone’: “He was very homophobic.” Chris thought he would burn in hell if he liked other guys: “If I’m gay, I’m completely screwed for all eternity.”
Christopher Anthony John Martin, the oldest of five children, He was born into a Christian family, in the English city of Exeter, Devon. He received a very strict religious education. He attended the Belmont evangelical church with his parents (committed Christians) and sang psalms. As he himself admitted in an interview with Howard Stern for
Chris Martin at St John-at-Hackney Church / Matt Kent
SiriusXM Radio, “There Was a lot of indoctrination strange. It wasn’t even deliberate. But, there it was. “I couldn’t sing ‘Paint It Black’, for example, by the Stones, because I thought it was diabolical.” Chris grew up with “the perspective of a sky and a threatening hell. Just thinking about tits, you were already going to hell. And that was embedded”, he confessed in Rolling Stone. And that had a huge impact on his life..
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In the first years of his training, when he was an 11-year-old boy, he discovered his passion for music.. He himself admits that it was when he sang “a song that he had written about newspapers” at a concert at school. Likewise, A music teacher had a huge influence on him. who encouraged his students to have fun playing the piano. Something came up at that moment. Something that continued to feed for the next few years… until formed Coldplay in 1997. Today it exceeds 100 million albums sold worldwide.
At the age of 13, he entered boarding school. from Sherbourne, Dorset. At the same time that Martin was exploring music, faced very hard times. TO an internal struggle in which he questioned his own sexuality: “He told me something like, ‘Oh shit, what if he was gay? Because I grew up thinking that was really bad.”. In 2019, the Coldplay singer made these controversial statements in ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine: “When I was at boarding school, I walked a little strangely and jumped, and He was also very homophobic. ‘Cause I was wondering, ‘“If I’m gay, I’m completely screwed for all eternity.” And he added, “He was a kid, you know, discovering sexuality, and I said to myself, ‘He may be gay, It may be this, it may be that’… “I was terrified.” Martin had to face that “terrible confusion” that caused his own homophobia. And also bullying.
“I was a hyper-religious kid, quite innocent and very moralistic.””, he said in an interview with The Sun. Being a teenager suffered bullying because ““I looked like a gay guy.” In Rolling Stone he added that This happened for several years., some classmates – the ‘hard wing’ – called him: “You are definitely gay.” and they did it in a waycompletely aggressive… It was very uncomfortable for me.” About 16 years old, From overnightChris stopped worrying about this matter: “I said to myself, but what is this?” His convictions changed completely. He didn’t know specifically what could have caused his new outlook. The singer attributes it to his natural growth, to his maturity. “Many of my heroes are gay or whatever they are – I really do not care. So it is It took a big weight off my shoulders.”.
Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland of Coldplay performing at Piedmont Park in Atlanta / Chris McKay
The fact is that those three years, between 13 and 16, marked him. But he feels very grateful because they represented a challenge from which he emerged strengthened by face all that school blindness: “You’re gay, you’re bad at sports, you’re this or that.” Likewise, freed himself from religious pressure. And she eventually concluded, “Ok, I have my own relationships.” with who I believe is God”. Already does not subscribe to a single belief system: “For me, God is in everything and in all Yes love“It is the miracle in every cell of all things.”
