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Free Soul
''Free Soul'' is the debut studio album by Canadian country music artist Madeline Merlo. It was released on April 29, 2016 via Open Road Recordings. The album includes the singles "Sinking Like a Stone", "Alive", " Honey Jack", " Whatcha Wanna Do About It", " War Paint", and "Over and Over". Upon release, the album debuted at number 88 on the ''Billboard'' Canadian Albums Chart. The album's fourth single, "Whatcha Wanna Do About It" earned Merlo her first top ten single on the Canadian country singles chart. Background In early 2014, Merlo signed a record deal with Open Road Recordings and spent approximately eight months developing her sound. She released her debut single, "Sinking Like a Stone", on February 18, 2014. The song stayed on the Canada Country chart for 20 weeks and reached a peak position of 32, which helped to establish Merlo's presence on Canadian country radio. That summer (July 22, 2014), she released an eponymous debut extended play, along with a new single, "A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeline Merlo
Madeline Merlo (born February 9, 1994) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. She signed to Open Road Recordings in 2013 and released her debut album, '' Free Soul'', three years later. In 2015, Merlo received the "Rising Star" award from the Canadian Country Music Association. In 2021, she signed with the Nashville-based BBR Music Group, joining their imprint Wheelhouse Records. Early life Merlo grew up in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Her father was a funk musician, and the house was often filled with music. She had a desire to be a performer since the first time she sang in front of a crowd of people. In public school, she took part in her school talent show. She sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and after that performance she decided that she wanted to be a singer. Throughout high school, Merlo played in a band and together they began gigging around. She also continued to hone her vocal skills by performing in musical theatre productions and taking every opportunity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single (music)
In music, a single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record or an album. One can be released for sale to the public in a variety of formats. In most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. In other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. Despite being referred to as a single, in the era of music downloads, singles can include up to as many as three tracks. The biggest digital music distributor, the iTunes Store, accepts as many as three tracks that are less than ten minutes each as a single. Any more than three tracks on a musical release or thirty minutes in total running time is an extended play (EP) or, if over six tracks long, an album. Historically, when mainstream music was purchased via vinyl records, singles would be released double-sided, i.e. there was an A-side and a B-side, on which two songs would appear, one on each si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Longstaffe
Heather Longstaffe is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba, currently based in Los Angeles, California. In 2011 she won the Radio Star National Songwriting Competition and signed with EMI Music Publishing. Heather Longstaffe performed at the Canadian Country Music Association Songwriters' Series in 2012 and 2014. After years writing songs for artists such as Jordan McIntosh Jordan James McIntosh (born December 20, 1995) is a Canadian country singer-songwriter from Ottawa, Ontario. He has released a number of singles. Career He was born to Greg and Julie McIntosh in Ottawa, Ontario. He has an older sister Melissa. ..., and Madeline Merlo. 2015 saw Longstaffe release music under her own name with TTA Music, and "Slingshot" was subsequently nominated for a Manitoba Country Music Association Award. After performing with Dallas Smith and touring with Emerson Drive, her songs "Jack Daniels" and "Rooftops" broke through on Canadian radio and SiriusXM, repeate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Pardo
Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Pardo (born December 18, 1981) is an American Christian musician, who is mainly a music producer, songwriter, and composer. He has received a Grammy Award nomination at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. Early life Pardo was born, Jeffrey Thomas Pardo, on December 18, 1981, in Chicago, Illinois. He relocated to Nashville to become a musician. Music career His music production songwriting career began about 2003 and he was nominated for a Grammy Award at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in the Best Contemporary Christian Music Song category. He was a co-writer with Rhett Walker Band's Rhett Walker Canipe on the single, "When Mercy Found Me". Awards and nominations GMA Dove Awards ! , - , rowspan="9" , 2022 , " Come What May" , Song of the Year , , rowspan="9" , , - , rowspan="2" , " My Jesus" , Song of the Year , , - , Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year , , - , " In Jesus Name (God of Possible)" , Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Blaine
Jason Blaine (born April 19, 1980) is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter from Pembroke, Ontario. Blaine is a multiple Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA), SOCAN & Country Music Association of Ontario Award winner with over 20 Canadian country radio hits. Twelve of those went on to become Nielsen BDS Top 10 singles on the Canadian country chart including "Country Side", "Friends of Mine", and the biographical "They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore". Family Blaine lives in the greater Nashville area with his wife, Amy, and their four children. Career Blaine's first hit single, “Rock In My Boot”, was released in 2007. It led to multiple CCMA nominations and paved the way for a string of hit singles and major festival appearances across the country. His most successful song to date was the biographical “They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore”, which was written for his grandfather and released in 2012. The song eventually went on to win CCMA Single of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Moakler
Steve Moakler is an American country musician and songwriter from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has released five studio albums and has written songs for Nashville recording artists including Dierks Bentley's single "Riser." Early life His mother was a nurse and his father an architect. His father's stereo and record collection inspired Moakler, who started playing guitar and writing songs at age 14, and forming his first band in middle school. He played throughout Pittsburgh during his high school years. He graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2006 and turned down an independent record deal to move to Nashville. Moakler attended Belmont University in Nashville, taking classes during the week and playing shows on the weekends. After two years he left school to focus full-time on his music career. Career After moving to Nashville, Moakler began co-writing with songwriters such as Gordie Sampson, Barry Dean, and Luke Laird. He co-wrot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Hicks
Tim Hicks (born August 22, 1979) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. Since he released his debut single "Get By" in 2012, he has charted eighteen top ten hits on the Canada Country chart. Hicks’ catalogue of releases include: '' Throw Down, 5:01, Shake These Walls,'' and ''New Tattoo.'' Hicks has earned four nominations for the JUNO Awards. He has also won a CCMA Award, earned two platinum selling singles, seven gold singles (including " Loud"), one gold album, and two No. 1 chart topping singles " What A Song Should Do", and " No Truck Song". Personal life At the age of six, Hicks started taking music lessons at the Ontario Conservatory of Music in Niagara Falls. Tim is married to Amanda Hicks, and together they have 2 children. Hicks currently splits his time between Nashville, Tennessee, and his hometown in Ontario. In 2002, Hicks graduated from the University of Waterloo with a BA in Psychology. During his time at the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Canada
Music Canada (formerly Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA)) is a non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, and distribute music in Canada. It also offers benefits to some of Canada's leading independent record labels and distributors. History Originally formed as the 10-member Canadian Record Manufacturer's Association, the association changed its name to Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) in 1972 and opened membership to other record industry companies. In 2006, the CRIA was in the news when a number of smaller labels resigned their memberships, complaining that the organization wasn't representing their interests. In 2011, it changed its name to Music Canada offering special benefits to some of the leading independent labels and distributors in Canada. Organization Music Canada is governed by a board of directors who are elected annually by association members. To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Country Music Association
The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) was founded in 1976 as the Academy of Country Music Entertainment to organize, promote and develop a Canadian country music industry. The groundwork for the association began on June 3rd, 1973 when a group of twelve entertainers, promoters and radio personalities met at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, Ontario and formed a Board of Directors to help promote Canadian content. The group included Jury Krytiuk, president of Boot Records, Bod Dalton, a promotor, Sean Eyre, DJ Lindsay, radio personality Harold Moon who worked for BMI Records, Jack Starr of The Horseshoe Tavern, Barry Haugen of RCA Records, Vic Folliott of Brantford Radio, Mary Butterill of CAPAC Publishing and Ben Kerr who was a prominent promoter and Brent Williams, a notable country and bluegrass entertainer. This group was aided by future Country Music Awards organizer and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Joe Talbot who flew up from Nasville especially for this meeti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brandt
Paul Rennée Belobersycky (born July 21, 1972), known professionally as Paul Brandt, is a Canadian country music artist. Growing up in Calgary, he was a pediatric RN at the time of his big break. In 1996, he made his mark on the country music charts with the single "My Heart Has a History", propelling him to international success and making him the first male Canadian country singer to reach the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in the United States since Hank Snow in 1974. Early life Brandt was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Airdrie, Alberta. The first time Brandt sang in front of an audience was when he sang "Amazing Grace" at his high school. He attended Crescent Heights High School from 1987-1990. He also graduated from Mount Royal University with a major in nursing during 1992. Career Brandt's demo was one of many sent by A&Rs at the Warner Canada office to their colleagues at Warner Nashville with a purpose of finding a new project that the two b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Brody
Dean Brody (born August 12, 1975) is a Canadian country music artist who has won 16 CCMA Awards and 2 JUNO Awards. Originally signed to Broken Bow Records in 2008, Brody made his debut later that year with the single "Brothers". This song, a Top 40 country hit in the US, was the first single from his self-titled debut album, released in 2009 under the production of Matt Rovey. In 2010, Brody was signed to Open Road Recordings and released his second album, '' Trail in Life''. In 2012, he released his third album, ''Dirt'', earning the 2012 CCMA Album of the Year award and a 2013 Juno nomination for Country Album of the Year. Brody also won the 2012 and 2013 CCMA Male Artist of the Year award. Brody's fourth album, '' Crop Circles'', was released in 2013. Brody's fifth album, '' Gypsy Road'', was released in 2015. Brody's sixth album, '' Beautiful Freakshow'', was released in 2016, and he subsequently earned the singer 3 Awards at the 2017 CCMA Awards show, including Fan's Choice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
