Vita Chambers (born June 10, 1993) is a Barbadian-Canadian singer and songwriter. She is best known for her hit single "Like Boom" in 2010.
Musical career and early life
Chambers was born in Vancouver, Canada. She then moved to Barbados, where she grew up. She began her career by posting four of her original songs on her
MySpace page at the age of 15. She was signed by Sylvia Rhone to
Universal Motown
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when she turned 16.
Chambers was the opening act, singing "Heat Wave", at the November 2009
Thanksgiving Day
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NFL half-time show featuring a Motown Review by the future of Motown. Chambers' first single, "Young Money", was released in March 2010. Her EP "The Get Go" was released in March with five songs on
iTunes. At age 17, Vita toured with fellow Canadian singer
Justin Bieber
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as one of his opening acts on his
My World Tour
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in 2010,
as well as performing at
Lilith Fair
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in 2010,
Bamboozle Road Show,
PopCon
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Th ...
, and touring with
Forever The Sickest Kids. She also performed with
Estelle at the 2010
Soul Train Awards
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in Atlanta.
Chambers is now an independent artist under her own company Gold Note Productions. She released a single, "Fix You", on December 18, 2012. Fix You was nominated for the Best Dance Record for the
2013 Juno Awards,
and within 3 months "Fix You" entered the Top 40 in Canada. Vita was also the #4 Emerging artist on the
Canadian Hot 100 Billboard chart. It spent over 20 weeks in the top 100. "Fix You" achieved Gold status in Canada, and has sold over 350,000 copies worldwide to date.
Later that year, Vita released her second single called "What If?" under Gold Note Productions Ltd. In 2014 Vita received 2 nominations at the
Canadian Music Radio Awards for Best New Group or Solo Artist CHR and Best New Group or Solo Artist Dance/Urban/Rhythmic.
Vita released a new single called "A+D" on April 21, 2014, which lyrically expressed Vita's strong belief that good is in everyone despite outside influences. She also released a
2014 FIFA World Cup song called "El Camino", produced by Mike Solo with a chorus of 8 kids.
In February 2015, Vita released a new single called "Kings Of Love" along with an accompanying music video directed by Jimmy Keegan.
Since then Vita has released His Love, A+D Orchestral, Tell Me, Ferrous and Want You in 2016.
In 2018 Vita will be releasing her new EP entitled "VITA".
Discography
EP
* ''VITA'' (2018)
Singles
Albums
References
External links
*
Vita Chambers on JSYK
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1993 births
Canadian people of Barbadian descent
Living people
Motown artists
21st-century Black Canadian women singers
Musicians from Vancouver
Canadian women pop singers