Phantoms are a Los Angeles–based
electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and List of electronic dance music festivals, festivals. It is generally ...
duo. The group consists of former teenage actors
Kyle Kaplan
Kyle Joseph Kaplan (born 16 July 1990) is an American actor.
Life and career
At the age of 13, Kaplan toured with Jim Henson's Bear and the Big Blue House Live! across the U.S. and United Kingdom for ten months. He also performed at the Los Ang ...
and
Vinnie Pergola
Vinnie Pergola (born December 9, 1989) is an American actor. Credits to date include ''That's So Raven'', '' Huff'', '' Complete Savages'', ''The Bernie Mac Show'', '' Still Standing'', and '' Miss Behave''.
Music career
Since 2013, Pergola has ...
.
Career
Their eponymous debut album was released in March 2017. Their song "Just a Feeling", which was downloaded over 5,000 times, charted on the
Dance/Mix Show Airplay
Dance/Mix Show Airplay (formerly Hot Dance Airplay) is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance musi ...
chart at number 40. The album's first and second singles "Pulling Me In" and "Been Here Before" were released.
Before Phantoms was formed, Kaplan and Pergola listened to
classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on comm ...
bands such as
Led Zeppelin
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and
Pink Floyd
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. They also had
garage band
Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock music that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals. The style is ...
. In 2007, the duo learnt and began producing electronic music. In 2016, they collaborated with Skylar Astin to release the single "Call My Name".
In 2017, they collaborated with
Giorgio Moroder
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (, ; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music. His work ...
to release the song "Champagne, Secrets, & Chanel".
In October 2018, Phantoms collaborated with
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Anne Hudgens ( ; born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer. After making her feature film debut in '' Thirteen'' (2003), Hudgens rose to fame portraying Gabriella Montez in the ''High School Musical'' film series (200 ...
to release the single "Lay with Me", which came out on October 3, 2018.
On February 22, 2019, Phantoms released the single "Are You Up" featuring Shaylen.
Discography
Singles
References
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Musical groups from Los Angeles
American electronic dance music groups