Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Blunt yana da darussan piano da violin a matsayin yaro, amma an gabatar da shi ga guitar lantarki yana da shekaru 14 a Harrow ta hanyar ɗaliban ɗalibai. Rubutun karatunsa a Jami'ar Bristol mai taken The Commodification of Image <unk> Production of a Pop Idol. Ofaya daga cikin hanyoyinsa shine Simon Frith, masanin ilimin zamantakewar al'umma da mai sukar dutsen, kuma shugaban kwamitin Mercury Music Prize na alƙalai tun daga 1992, wanda daga baya ya yi rangadin lacca mai taken "The unpopular and unpleasant thoughts inspired by the work of James Blunt". Duk da yake har yanzu a cikin sojojin Blunt zai rubuta waƙoƙi a lokacin da yake hutu. Wani mai goyon bayan mawaƙa da haɗin gwiwar marubucin waƙoƙi ya ba da shawarar ya tuntuɓi manajan Elton John, Todd Interland, wanda ta kasance tana raba gida tare da shi. Interland ya gaya wa HitQuarters cewa ya saurari demo na Blunt yayin tuki gida kuma, bayan ya ji waƙa 'Goodbye My Lover', ya tsaya ya kira lambar wayar hannu da aka rubuta a kan CD don kafa taro.Blunt ya bar sojojin Birtaniya a 2002 don ya iya ci gaba da aikinsa na kiɗa. Ya fara amfani da sunan wasan kwaikwayo "Blunt" a wani bangare don sauƙaƙa wa wasu rubutun; "Blount" ana furta shi iri ɗaya, kuma ya kasance sunan karshe na doka. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan barin sojojin an sanya shi a kamfanin buga kiɗa na EMI da kuma gudanar da Artists na ashirin da ɗaya. Yarjejeniyar rikodin ta kasance mai wuyar fahimta, tare da masu gudanar da rikodin rikodin suna nuna muryar sa ta magana a matsayin shinge a cikin rarrabuwar ajiyar Burtaniya. Linda Perry, wanda kawai ya kaddamar da kansa Custard Records lakabi a farkon 2003, ya ji Blunt ta promotional tef a lokacin da ziyartar London, da kuma nan da nan bayan ya ji ya yi aiki live a Kudu da Kudu maso yamma Music Festival. Ta yi masa tayin a wannan daren, kuma cikin 'yan kwanaki ya sanya hannu a kwangilar yin rikodi da ita. Wata daya bayan haka, ya tafi Los Angeles don saduwa da mai shirya Tom Rothrock.  Tambaya: A ina ne Blunt ya yi aiki kafin ya sami yarjejeniyar rikodi?
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