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Leaving Home EP
''Leaving Home EP'' is the major label debut extended play (EP) by American recording artist T. Mills. It was released for the retail sales on January 13, 2012, by Columbia Records. The production on this project was handled by Omen, Colin Munroe and The Stereotypes, among others. ''Leaving Home EP'' was supported by the lead single "Vans On", and a promotional single "The Boom". Background In 2011, T. Mills signed a deal to Columbia Records. After signing a deal, he began the 7-month recording on his second album. He done recorded 140 songs, narrowing it down to 10, and has decided it to release it as the 10-track free project to the fans. On July 22, 2011, Mills released the 10-track free project, titled ''Leaving Home'' serving as a mixtape, no guest appearances. It features production from Noel Zancanella, Omen, AudioBlack, The Futuristics, Colin Munroe and Phonix, among others. On December 6, 2011, Mills announced that he would be releasing the five-track EP, with its same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Mills
Travis Tatum Mills (born April 12, 1989), previously known by his stage name T. Mills, is an American rapper, singer, and actor from Riverside, California. Following his name change from T. Mills to Travis Mills, he began hosting an eponymous show on Apple Music 1. Early life Travis Tatum Mills was born on April 12, 1989, in Riverside, California. At the age of 5, Mills' uncle gave him his first guitar and at the age of 15 Mills stopped playing sports to start a punk rock band. After graduating high school, Mills began writing his own songs and produced them on a computer software. He started uploading his music on MySpace and intentionally posted "provocative" photos on the platform to stir interest. Career 2008–2010: Career beginnings and ''Ready, Fire, Aim!'' At the age of 17, Mills began writing songs in his bedroom, using music software such as Apple's Garage Band. At the age of 18, Mills began posting some of his music on his Myspace page. In 2008, Mills signed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lead Single
A lead single (or first single) is the first single to be released from a studio album by an artist or a band, usually before the album itself is released and also occasionally on the same day of the album's release date. A similar term, "debut single", is the first single released by a new artist. Release strategies Artists often choose songs that are more up-tempo, yet representative of the album's sound, as lead singles. Such songs are often catchier and attract the attention of listeners. The subsequent single might then be slower in tempo, in order to demonstrate the range of the album. Female vocalists like Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera often maintain a formula of an up-tempo first lead single with a slow ballad follow-up. For example, two singles were released by Miley Cyrus before her album '' Bangerz'' – an up-tempo track, " We Can't Stop", was released as the first, and a slow-ballad song, "Wrecking Ball", as the second. This was a successful practice of 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Hamilton (guitarist)
Mike Hamilton (sometimes listed as Michael Hamilton) is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter and session musician. Career Hamilton has performed, toured and/or recorded with Bette Midler, Sting (musician), Sting, Jay Ferguson (American musician), Jay Ferguson, Jennifer Warnes, Peter Kater, Jack Tempchin, Max Bennett (musician), Max Bennett, Pure Prairie League, Kenny Loggins and many other music artists. Some of his original songs and compositions can be found on the following album/CDs and cassettes: ''Songs And Sounds The Same'', Mike Hamilton - ''Mementos 1971 - 1987'', Pure Prairie League - ''Anthology'', Mike Hamilton - ''Wind Of The East'', Peter Kater - ''Best Of Laguna Vol.1'', Coastal Soul Music. His guitar playing and singing can be heard and seen on the VHS, Laser Disc and DVD Release of ''Alive'', Kenny Loggins and the VHS Release of ''Art Or Bust'', Bette Midler. Discography * 1978: ''Nightwatch (album), Nightwatch'', Kenny Loggins * 1979: ''Keep the Fire,'' K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Reeves
The Stereotypes are an American music production team, formed in 2003 and composed of Jonathan Yip, Ray Romulus, Jeremy Reeves and Ray Charles McCullough II. In June 2010, they were listed among the "Top 10 Songwriters and Producers to Watch" in ''Billboard'' magazine. The Stereotypes has been created on commercially successful singles such as Justin Bieber's " Somebody to Love", Cardi B and Bruno Mars " Please Me", Destiny Rogers' "Tomboy", Ne-Yo's " Year of the Gentleman", Mary J. Blige's "Good Love", Chris Brown's "Beg for It", Fifth Harmony's " Deliver", Lil Yachty's " Better" and Iggy Azalea's " Mo Bounce". The Stereotypes won two Grammy Awards in 2018, Song of the Year and Best R&B Song, for their contributions to Bruno Mars's ''Billboard'' Hot 100-number one single " That's What I Like". The Stereotypes took over the charts in 2017 with several credits on Mars' album '' 24K Magic'', which swept the Grammys, winning Album of the Year, Best R&B Album and Best Engineered A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los (rapper)
Carlos Coleman, better known by his stage name King Los or simply Los, is an American rapper and songwriter from Baltimore, Maryland. He is best known for his affiliation with American rapper Sean Combs, Puff Daddy, having frequently served as his ghostwriter and been signed to his label, Bad Boy Records from 2005 until 2008. Coleman re-signed to the label in February 2012, although he departed once more in March 2014. His debut studio album, ''God, Money, War'' (2015), was released by RCA Records and entered the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200; Puff Daddy executive produced the album. Career 1999–2010 As an 18-year-old high school student, Coleman started as a rapper with his main subject being the murder of his father. In 2002 Los auditioned for Sean Combs, Diddy's ''Making the Band 2'', but after being selected to appear on the show, he refused to sign any of the paperwork required so he was unable to appear on it. Later, Coleman would end up signed to Bad Boy Records in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITunes
iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems, and can be used to rip songs from CDs as well as playing content from dynamic, smart playlists. It includes options for sound optimization and wirelessly sharing iTunes libraries. iTunes was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2001. Its original and main focus was music, with a library offering organization and storage of Mac users' music collections. With the 2003 addition of the iTunes Store for purchasing and downloading digital music, and a Windows version of the program, it became an ubiquitous tool for managing music and configuring other features on Apple's line of iPod media players, which extended to the iPhone and iPad upon their introduction. From 2005 on, Apple expanded its core music features with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single (music)
In Music industry, music, a single is a type of Art release#Music, release of a song Sound recording, recording of fewer tracks than an album (LP record, LP), typically one or two tracks. A single can be released for record sales, sale to the public in a variety of physical or digital formats. Singles may be standalone tracks or connected to an artist's album, and in the latter case would often have at least one single release before the album itself, called lead singles. The single was defined in the mid-20th century with the ''45'' (named after its speed in revolutions per minute), a type of 7-inch sized vinyl records, vinyl record containing an A-side and B-side, A-side and a B-side, i.e. one song on each side. The single format was highly influential in pop music and the early days of rock and roll, and it was the format used for jukeboxes and preferred by younger populations in the 1950s and 1960s. Singles in Digital distribution, digital form became very popular in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 15 to 30 minutes. An EP is usually less cohesive than an album and more "non-committal". An extended play (EP) originally referred to a specific type of 45 revolutions per minute, rpm phonograph record other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and 33 rpm LP record, long play (LP), but , also applies to mid-length Compact disc, CDs and Music download, downloads. EPs are considered "less expensive and less time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album, and have long been popular with punk and indie bands. In K-pop and J-pop, they are usually referred to as Mini-LP, mini-albums. Background History EPs were released in various sizes in different eras. The earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were Vertic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Zancanella
Noel Patrick Zancanella is an American record producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He has written and produced songs for rock and pop artists such as Taylor Swift, OneRepublic, Maroon 5, B.o.B., Gym Class Heroes, Gavin DeGraw, and Colbie Caillat. History Since 2009, Zancanella has been signed to Patriot Games Publishing, a company founded by Ryan Tedder. The signing came through Zancanella co-writing OneRepublic's hit " Good Life", which peaked at number eight on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. In 2015, Zancanella received the Songwriter of the Year Award at the BMI Pop Awards. In 2016, he won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for his production with Taylor Swift and Ryan Tedder of Swift's fifth album ''1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixtape
In the modern music industry, a mixtape is a musical project, typically with looser constraints than that of an album or extended play. Unlike the traditional album or extended play, mixtapes are labeled as laid-back projects that allow artists more creative freedom and less commercial pressure. The term has significantly increased in popularity over the years due to high-profile artists marketing their projects as such. Prior to the decline of physical media, mixtapes were defined as homemade compilations of music played through a cassette tape, Compact disc, CD, or digital playlist and became significant in Hip hop (culture), hip-hop culture. The songs were typically beatmatching, beatmatched and consisted of seamless transitions at their beginnings and endings with fades or abrupt edits. It was then defined as relatively any musical project by an up-and-coming artist. Now, mixtapes have become a label of promotion and marketing for album-like projects. Dictionary.com writes that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
