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family in

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. After high school, he moved to

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and signed to

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's record label Beat Club in 2001 as "Avery Storm" after joining an independent production company. In 2005, Di Stasio was signed to the record label

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, owned by rapper

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. Storm previously performed on Nelly's album '' Suit'' in 2004. Storm appeared on the charting hip hop singles " Nasty Girl", a posthumous single of

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that included Nelly,

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, and Jagged Edge, and " Here I Am" by

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, another single that featured Nelly. ''Shotgun Love'' is the title of Storm's upcoming debut album, for which Storm has recorded 300 tracks., while ''Audiobiography'' is the title of Avery's EP produced by the

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team The Ceasars in 2014.

Discography

Albums

*TBA: ''Shotgun Love''

Mixtapes

*2006: ''Volume Whatever'' *2009: ''Category 5'' *2010: ''Diary of the TakeOff'' (in collaboration with The HeatMakerz)

EPs

*2014: ''Audiobiography'' (produced by The Ceasars (featuring

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))

Singles

*2007: "Stop Time" *2008: "Terrified" (featuring

) *2008: "My Life" (featuring

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) *2009: "Not Like My Girl" (featuring

) *2010: "Supermodel" (featuring

)

Featured singles

Guest appearances

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Storm, Avery Living people American male singer-songwriters American people of Italian descent People from New Jersey Singers from New York City American contemporary R&B singers American hip hop singers 1981 births 21st-century American singers 21st-century American male singers Singer-songwriters from New York (state)