Angel Mae Taylor (born 1988) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. She has released an LP and two

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Biography

Taylor was born on 20 March 1988 in Los Angeles, California, the youngest of five daughters of LaTonya Taylor. She has lived in both Sylmar and

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. An older sister,

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, appeared on the fifth season of ''

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''.

Musical career

Taylor had no musical education, and taught herself to play piano and guitar. She was inspired to start writing songs at the age of 13 when her sister Ebony, a year older, began writing poetry. Her recording career began when she contacted producer Mikal Blue, who had worked with

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, Brendan James and Jason Reeves, about renting his studio to record a few songs for her family. Blue decided he wanted to work with her after hearing her songs and offered to help her get a record deal. A few months later, Taylor took her first plane ride to the record label studio in New York. After signing with Aware/

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, she was able to move into her first home with her mother and two of her sisters. Her debut album, ''Love Travels,'' was released on

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on March 31, 2009, through Aware/Columbia Records. She had previously released an EP. Her song "Make Me Believe" was offered as the iTunes single of the week during the week of March 30, 2009, and she was featured as one of

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's ''You Oughtta Know: Artist on the rise.'' Taylor has toured with a variety of artists including

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, Brett Dennen,

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and

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. She was a supporting artist, with

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and

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, in concerts during the summer of 2009. She was a contestant on the second season of ''The Voice'', where she picked

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lead singer

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as her coach. She was eliminated in later rounds and did not perform in the live shows. Taylor's song "Like You Do" was featured in the score of the next to last episode of

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's '' One Tree Hills sixth season, and a season 2 episode of

's '' Tough Love'', in which she also performed on the show. "Make Me Believe" was featured on '' 90210'' on May 5, 2009. She released an EP, ''Motion'', in 2012. In 2013, Taylor worked with California-based DJ

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and was the featured vocalist for his song "Beam" (Dannic Mix). In 2014, she was featured vocalist on "Up All Night" by Russian DJ Arty, which became the first single taken from his 2015 album '' Glorious''. In 2015, she provided vocals for " Make It Right" on Armin van Buuren's album '' Embrace''. She has also collaborated with

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on "Getaway", AFSHeeN on "Would It Be Ok", and HARBER on "Me and My Friends". In 2019, she was the vocalist on Morgan Page's single "Reason for Living", which was included in "Beat Saber (Original Game Soundtrack), Vol. III".

Discography

Albums *''Love Travels EP'' (2009) *''Love Travels LP'' (2009) *''Motion EP'' (2012) Singles

References

External links

Official TwitterOfficial MySpace pageInterview, Clutch Online
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