Kyle Andrews is an American

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and performer born in

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and based in

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Career

Andrews has released albums on Portland's Badman Recording Co. as well as his own Elephant Lady Records imprint. His 2010 song "You Always Make Me Smile" (co-written with friend Neil Mason) was featured in a worldwide

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ad. Andrews worked with students from the BYU AdLab and ad agency

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to concept a music video for the song. The resulting music video was filmed in

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, featuring Andrews singing in the middle of an attempt to break the

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for the largest water balloon fight with 3927 participants and 120,021 water balloons. The video went

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. His interactive video for "Sushi" (directed by Dennis Liu) was made from 1.4 million tiles, and thousands of unique

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video stills. In 2010 it was shortlisted for the Guggenheim's YouTube Play Exhibit. His music has been used in other TV shows and commercials, including a worldwide television ad for

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("We Were Colors") and a national television ad for

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("Bombs Away"). "You Always Make Me Smile" also appeared in an episode of ABC's

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. Although Kyle performs as a first-name/last-name artist, and self-recorded the majority of his discography, he plays live with a full band. Andrews' fifth album, '' Robot Learn Love'', was released August 16, 2011.

Discography

*2006 – ''Amos In Ohio'' *2007 – ''Find Love, Let Go'' *2008 – ''Real Blasty'' *2010 – ''Kangaroo EP'' *2010 – ''Bombs Away / We Were Colors'' ''(digital-only single)'' *2011 – '' Robot Learn Love'' *2013 – ''Brighter Than The Sun'' *2016 – ''Escape'' *2018 – ''Big Hearts Exploding''

References

External links

Official SiteKyle Andrews on Bandcamp
* AMG Allmusic page {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Kyle 1982 births Songwriters from Illinois Living people Singers from Chicago 21st-century American male singers 21st-century American singers American male songwriters