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No Place In Heaven
''No Place in Heaven'' is the fourth studio album by British singer-songwriter Mika, released on 15 June 2015 via Republic Records (Casablanca). Background and recording After his first two records were described as campy affairs, Mika's third release ''The Origin of Love'' marked a drastic shift in musical style for the songwriter. ''No Place in Heaven'' continues that evolution. Mika described the recording process in an interview with Out Magazine: "I formed a little design studio with my sister and started drawing again like we used to in the kitchen of my mother's house. I was basically liberating myself and making my brain work very hard—scaring myself with challenges. As a result, the album is direct, low-down, open, candid, playful, yet a mature pop album which takes its inspiration from '60s pop music, very much the way my first album did." Shortly after the record was officially confirmed, the songs "Talk About You" and "Last Party" were released. The latter song is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika (singer)
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr. (born 18 August 1983), known professionally as Mika ( , stylised as MIKA), is a singer-songwriter born in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Paris and London. After recording his first extended play, '' Dodgy Holiday'', Mika was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2007 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2007. Mika released his first full-length studio album, ''Life in Cartoon Motion'', on Island Records in 2007, which has sold more than 8.3 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit Award—Best British Breakthrough act—and receive a Grammy Award nomination. He topped the UK Singles Chart in January 2007 with "Grace Kelly" and has since gone on to record four more platinum-selling studio albums (most recently ''My Name is Michael Holbrook'' released in October 2019), as well as serve as judge/mentor on both the French version of ''The Voice'' and the Italian version of ''X Factor''. Mika also starred for tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolina Liar
Carolina Liar is an American alternative rock band. Lead vocalist Chad Wolf is originally from Moncks Corner, South Carolina; other members originate from Stockholm, Sweden. History The band is best known for the platinum certified single "Show Me What I'm Looking For" and gold certified "I'm Not Over", from their 2008 major-label debut album, '' Coming to Terms'', produced by Swedish producers Max Martin and Tobias Karlsson. The song "I'm Not Over" featured in the 2008 film ''What Happens in Vegas'', starring Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz, in the 2008 ''King of the Hill'' episode "Cops and Robert", and in the video game ''UEFA Euro 2008''. On March 3, 2009, the single "Show Me What I'm Looking For" was featured on the iTunes Store as the Free Single of the Week. "Show Me What I'm Looking For" appeared in FOX Sports commercials for the 2009 MLB All-Star Game, as well as MTV's The Hills. "Show Me What I'm Looking For" and "Open The Door" were featured in commercials for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Futuristics
The Futuristics are a Grammy nominated American songwriting and music production duo consisting of Alex Schwartz and Joe Khajadourian. The duo formed after they met interning at Atlantic Records during the summer of 2005 and are currently based out of Los Angeles. The Futuristics are signed with Artist Publishing Group. In 2011, The Futuristics produced the Emmy Award nominated " 3-Way (The Golden Rule)" for '' SNL''. The digital short featured Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, and Andy Samberg In that same year, the duo produced the DJ Felli Fel song Boomerang, which features Akon, Pitbull, and Jermaine Dupri and " Pot of Gold" for American rapper The Game. The Futuristics' 2012 release, "I Cry," for Flo Rida remained on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for 20 weeks, reaching #1 status on Billboard's Rap Songs. "I Cry" reached Top 10 status in 18 countries worldwide launching the duo to worldwide acclaim. The Futuristics then produced the official remix of the Bruno Mars song "Moon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CJ Baran
Christopher John Baran is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. He is a founding member of Woolf and the Wondershow and cowriter, creator, and producer of their Los Angeles future theater musical CAGES in which he plays the lead character Woolf. He has produced and written songs for Panic! At The Disco, Melanie Martinez, Carly Rae Jepsen, Mika, Britney Spears, COIN, Andrew McMahon, One OK Rock, Bea Miller, Pentatonix, Simple Plan, Pixie Lott, and Nelly. He was a founding member of the band Push Play. Early life Baran is originally from Melville, New York, where he attended St. Anthony's High School. He took an early interest in music, learning several instruments and beginning his first band at 11, Kaution. Career Push Play In September 2006, Baran joined Steve Scarola, Nick DeTurris and Derek Ries to form Push Play. Baran was lead vocalist, keyboard player, and rhythm guitarist for the Long Island-based band. Their debut album, ''Deserted'', was released in De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Brothers Jr
Kerry Brothers Jr. (born October 1, 1970), also known as "Krucial", is an American record producer, songwriter and hip hop artist. Brothers and singer-songwriter Alicia Keys began a musical partnership in the mid-1990s, co-writing and co-producing together a number of songs from her first four albums. He received two Grammy Awards from his collaborative work with Keys: Best R&B Album for ''Songs in A Minor'' and Best R&B Song for " No One". In 2006, Brothers released his debut EP ''Take Da Hood Back''. Brothers co-wrote songs that appeared on the soundtracks of the films ''Dr. Dolittle'', '' Shaft'', and ''Ali''. He has also worked with other R&B and hip hop artists including Mario, Rakim, Angie Stone, Nas, Keyshia Cole, Goapele, Drake and K'naan. Early life Brothers was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Harlem and Far Rockaway, Queens. Career Initially a teen rapper, Brothers was signed to B-Boy Records and released a 2 sided singl"Who Am I"andWe Are The Move in 1988 with then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Woodford
Nina Woodford-Wells is a Swedish-American songwriter. Career Nina Woodford (born 13 July 1979) Stockholm, is the daughter of the Swedish music producer Sten Sandahl, and the Black American social anthropologist Prudence Woodford-Berger. At the age of 16, she began her career singing backing vocals for Swedish artists Eric Gadd, Titiyo, and The Navigators. She also featured on the Britney Spears album '' Oops!... I Did It Again''. By the age of 20 she had a publishing deal as a songwriter with Murlyn Music in Stockholm. At age 25, Woodford moved to London, and wrote the European Hot 100 #1 smash hit,'' Broken Strings,'' by James Morrison from his album '' Songs for You, Truths for Me''. The song is the biggest single of Morrison's career. Nina co-wrote the theme song for the 2019 Special Olympics held in Abu Dhabi, titled "Right Where I'm Supposed To Be". Nina was tapped by Sesame Street in 2021 to compose a song honoring Juneteenth, a federal holiday in the United States c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alle Benassi
Alessandro "Alle" Benassi is an Italian DJ, songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Benassi Bros. and as a co-writer of several hits for Chris Brown. Career Benassi and his cousin Benny Benassi began DJing in their home town of Reggio Emilia in the 1980s. In the mid-1990s, they started working for Larry Pignagnoli's Off Limits production company. There, they produced music for several acts, including Whigfield. Alessandro Benassi did writing and arrangements for the 2002 album '' Whigfield 4''. Alessandro and Benny Benassi then released a number of albums under the name Benassi Bros.: '' Hypnotica'' (2003), ''Pumphonia Pumphonia is the debut album by Italian electronic Electronic may refer to: *Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductor * ''Electronics'' (magazine), a defunct American trade journal *Electronic storage, the stor ...'' (2004), and '' ...Phobia'' (2005). He later went on to produce the album “Rock the Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Benassi
Marco "Benny" Benassi (; born 13 July 1967) is an Italian DJ, record producer and remixer. He is widely seen as a pioneer of electro house, a genre brought into the mainstream by his 2002 summer club hit " Satisfaction". He started his career as DJ along with his cousin Alessandro "Alle" Benassi, forming the electronica duo Benassi Bros. Although he began to gain popularity with his pseudonym in 1997 by releasing the song "Electric Flying", his first international hit was "I Feel So Fine", launched in 2001 under the nickname KMC. In 2003, Benassi released his first solo debut album, '' Hypnotica'', to positive reviews. Known as a pioneer album for electro-house, it incorporates electroclash sounds, many elements of house music and MacInTalk voices, and won the European Border Breakers Award. The following year, the debut album of the Benassi Bros., '' Pumphonia'', was released. Their track "Illusion" became very popular in the American club scene, finally peaking at number 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Hector
Wayne Anthony Hector is a British songwriter who is best known for his work with pop artists such as Nicki Minaj, One Direction, the Wanted, Toše Proeski and Olly Murs. He co-wrote seven of Westlife's number one singles, including "World of Our Own" and "Flying Without Wings". He is signed to BMG Chrysalis UK. Career Hector began his music career as a member of the new jack swing group Rhythm N Bass. The group were signed by Sony Music after entertainment executive Richard Pascoe featured the group in a European edition of Yo! MTV Raps. He then decided to concentrate on songwriting and music production. It was this period in 1993 that Richard Pascoe took the role as International A&R manager for Pop music at Rondor Music International, where he signed Hector and fellow Rhythm N Bass member Alistair Tennant as songwriters. When transitioning from performer to songwriter, Hector got in touch with Steve Mac, who was working with the British boy band Damage. He had originally me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Wells
Rob Wells (born 1971/1972) is a Canadian producer/songwriter, and is one half of music production team "The Fourth Floor" with award winning singer/songwriter/recording artist Shobha. Artists that Wells has worked with includes Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber Justin Drew Bieber ( ; born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer. Bieber is recognized for his genre-melding musicianship and has played an influential role in modern-day popular music. He was discovered by American record executive Scooter ..., Alex Aiono, Adam Lambert, Nick Lachey, Backstreet Boys, Mika (singer), Mika, Kai (Canadian singer), Kai, Paloma Faith, Katharine McPhee, Corey Hart (singer), Corey Hart, Nelly Furtado, The Struts, Big Time Rush, Cyndi Lauper, Boyzone, Pixie Lott, Maxi Priest, Eva Avila, David Archuleta, Victoria Duffield, Keshia Chanté, Olivia Newton-John, Miranda Cosgrove, Daisy Coburn, Daisy Dares You, Ria Mae, Bobby Bazini, Shiloh (singer), Shiloh, Divine Brown, Tyler Shaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monsters And The Strangerz
The Monsters & Strangerz are an American production and songwriting team from Miami, Florida. The team features The Monsters: Alexander "Eskeerdo" Izquierdo, Stefan Johnson, Jordan K. Johnson and Oliver "German" Peterhof and The Strangerz: Marcus "Marc Lo" Lomax and Val Blavatnik and Clarence Coffee Jr. In 2011, The Monsters & Strangerz moved their operation to Los Angeles and have produced and written for artists including Maroon 5, Camila Cabello, Halsey, Zedd, Rihanna, Nick Jonas, Liam Payne, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Dua Lipa, Demi Lovato, Jason Derulo, Fifth Harmony, Kanye West, Big Sean, Bebe Rexha, and many others. History The Monsters originated as a team in 2008, when Stefan Johnson began to engineer for Miami artist and songwriter Alexander "Eskeerdo" Izquierdo. At the time Johnson was an in-demand engineer working with major artists like Rick Ross, Pitbull, and Diddy. Shortly after meeting Eskeerdo and Johnson along with his b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyler Stonestreet
Skyler Stonestreet is an American musician and singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. She is a writer on hit tracks such as Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber's "Stuck With U", The Chainsmokers' "Kanye", Dua Lipa's “IDGAF”, Tate McRae & Jeremy Zucker's "That Way," Hailee Steinfeld's "Wrong Direction" Marshmello's "Chasing Colors", Lennon Stella's "Older Than I Am", Dove Cameron's "Boyfriend" and many more. As a writer and a featured vocalist Skyler can be heard on tracks from acts such as Seven Lions' "Freesol" and Cheat Codes and Nicky Romero's "Sober". Career Skyler Stonestreet was in a competition for ''Rolling Stone'' to become the first ever unsigned artist to be on the cover. After making it to the final eight, she wrote a song called "Polaroid" which became part of the campaign for the new Z340 Polaroid Camera and debuted on Polaroid.com. ''Rolling Stone'' has described her music as, "Flirty pop, full of bells, finger snaps and breathy vocals." Her mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
