After recording on the independent American label Custard Records, Blunt won two BRIT Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards, and by 2006 was nominated for five Grammy Awards. Blunt’s third studio album, Some Kind of Trouble, was released in November 2010. Blunt was an officer in the Life Guards, a Cavalry regiment of the British Army, and served under NATO in Kosovo during the conflict there in 1999. As of 4 October 2009 Blunt’s primary residence is on the Spanish island of Ibiza. James spent his early childhood living in England, Cyprus, and Germany, where his father, a Colonel in the British Army Air Corps, and military helicopter pilot, was posted at various times. Because the British Army sponsored his university education, Blunt was obliged to serve a minimum of four years in the armed forces.
