Dan August Rigo (born August 6, 1986) is a Filipino-Canadian recording artist, songwriter, producer and musician. August Rigo is signed to a publishing contract with Sony/ATV as a songwriter.

Early life

Rigo was born on August 6, 1986, in

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. He became passionate about music when he watched

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's performance of "

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" on Motown's 25th Anniversary TV Show. He taught himself to play keyboards and guitar while in his teens.

Music career

He Co-wrote ''

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'', "Stuck in the Moment" and "Kiss And Tell" for

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, ''

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and ''Outta this World'' for

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. He is featured on

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's second album,

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, on the song Better To Lie. He is the executive producer of

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's 2011 release of "musiqinthemagiq" and co-wrote "Anything", "SayIDo", "Silver & Gold", "WaitingStill" and "BackToWhere". In 2010, August secured a publishing deal with Sony/ATV as well as an admin society deal with BMI. He is also signed with Island Def Jam Records. In October 2011, August released his first single "Here Comes Trouble" featuring

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on Alpine Music Group/Island DefJam. He also released his promo mixtape "Too Big To Fail" online. Rigo produced and featured on YouTube rapper D-Pryde's mixtapes "Once Again" (2012) and "Mars" (2011), as well as D-Pryde's first EP Canal&Richvale (2013) On September 18th, 2015, August Rigo released the Japanese version of his album "The Fall Out" on Manhattan Records in Japan. "The Fall Out" was released independently on Rigo's label "Summerchild Records" in Canada on November 6th, 2015. The album was nominated for a Juno Award for Best R&B/Soul Recording. In February 2020, prior to the release of "Map Of The Soul: 7" album by BTS, Black Swan was pre-released single before the release of the said album. August Rigo and Vince Nantes co-wrote it, now, Black Swan, a b-side track from the album has now 104 #1's on iTunes surpassing the album's leading track "ON" with 93 #1's and surpassing Adele's "Hello" with 102 #1's and BTS is the 2nd Artist to achieved it.

Discography

Singles written

* 2010: "

" (

) * 2010: "Change Positions" (

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) * 2010: "Up & Running" (Jessica Jarrell) * 2011: "Gotta Be You" (

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) * 2011: "

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" ( Sean Kingston) * 2011: "Anything" (

) * 2015: "Back To Sleep" (

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) * 2017: "Back 2 U (AM 1:27)" (

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) * 2018: "1,2,3" (

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) * 2019: "Betcha" (

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) * 2020: "Black Swan" (

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) * 2020: "On" (

) * 2021: "Anticipation" (Leanne and Naara) * 2022: "Hot" (

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) * 2022: "" (

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)

Songs written

*2010

–

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* 3. "Stuck in the Moment" * 4. "

" * 11. "Kiss and Tell" (iTunes bonus track)"

– Replay ** 2. "

–

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* 3. "Outta This World" * 5. "Work" * 6. "I Know What She Like" * 11. "Love at War"

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–

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* 5. "Unlearn Me" * 9. " Over You

–

* 9. "Better to Lie" D-Pryde - "MARS" * 13. '"Big Shot" *2011

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* 3. "Future"

–

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* 1. "Anything" * 3. "Sayido" * 5. "Silver&Gold" * 6. "WaitingStill" * 7. "Backtowhere" * 13. "Clumsylove" (iTunes bonus track) *2014

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– Have It All * 3. "The Writer" *2015

–

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* 1. "Back To Sleep" *2017

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* 2. Keep On *2017

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* 27. Tough Love

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rigo, August Dan 1986 births Living people Canadian musicians of Filipino descent Canadian pop musicians Canadian record producers Canadian songwriters Musicians from Toronto Writers from Toronto