Ricky Wilson

Ricky was born Charles Richard Wilson in Keighley West Yorkshire and is the lead singer of one of Britain’s most treasured bands, Kaiser Chiefs.

The band have released 7 original studio albums which includes ‘Education Education Education and War’ which entered the UK album charts at number 1 in 2014, achieved platinum record sales, top ten singles including the number 1 hit ‘Ruby’, 3 Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello award for album of the year, toured with U2, Foo Fighters and Green Day and sold 8 million albums.

The band recently completed a hugely successful World tour to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of ‘Employment’, the album which launched them into the stratosphere. This will be followed by a slew of festivals and shows across the UK in 2026.

Ricky has been a coach on The Voice UK alongside Sir Tom Jones, Will-I-Am, Boy George and Paloma Faith and was named the winning coach for the second year in a row in 2016. He hosted his own prime-time entertainment show for Sky One called ‘Bring The Noise’ with Nicole Scherzinger and Tinie Tempah, presented The One Show and had a weekly show on Radio X.

On CBBC he had his own show - Ricky Wilsons Art Jam and also hosted Britain’s Best Young Artist.

In 2023 he was the star of The Masked Singer UK. Performing as Phoenix, he eventually finished as runner-up, finally being unmasked in the grand final.

He presented Drive on Virgin Radio for a number of years, leaving just ahead of the Employment 20th anniversary tour. He has covered a number of shows across Radio 2 and continues to be in demand on a number of Entertainment TV shows.