Rod Stewart Biography

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NAME: Rod Stewart
OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Singer
BIRTH DATE: January 10, 1945 (Age: 68)
PLACE OF BIRTH: North London, England
Full Name: Roderick David Stewart
ZODIAC SIGN: Capricorn

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Rod Stewart is best known as a U.K. and U.S. pop and rock singer-songwriter with a signature raspy voice who performed from the 1960s to the present day.

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The couple married in 2007 and welcomed a second son, Aiden, in 2011. He also has a daughter, Kimberly, and a son, Sean, from his first wife Alana Stewart and a daughter named Ruby with former girlfriend Kelly Emberg. He also has two children from his marriage to model Rachel Hunter—Renee and Liam. Stewart publicly acknowledged his oldest daughter, Sarah Streeter, in 2013. Streeter was born when Stewart was only 18 years old,

and he and the girl's mother had decided to put their baby up for adoption. Stewart and Streeter first met in 2008.

In 2006, Stewart returned to rock music with Still The Same: Great Rock Classics of Our Time. The album reached the top of the pop charts in October of that year. Stewart put down the microphone and picked up a pen to write his 2012 memoir Rod: The Autobiography. The following year, he made an impressive return to songwriting with his album Time.Stewart co-wrote of many of the record's songs as well as serving as a co-producer on the project.