Thriving Ivory was an American

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based in the

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area. They released their self-titled

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debut album on June 24, 2008. The debut album reached number 1 on the

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Heatseekers chart on the strength of the charting single "Angels on the Moon". After half a year, " Angels on the Moon" appeared on the US

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Chart, reaching number 28. Several songs off of the record were recorded with award-winning producer

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. The band was featured as a VH1 You Oughta Know Artist and won the Yahoo! Music: Who's Next? User's Choice Competition. In 2009 they performed their single " Angels on the Moon" on

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and

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. Early in 2010 their first single "Angels on The Moon" went certified Gold in the US selling over 500,000 copies. Their second studio album, '' Through Yourself & Back Again'' was released on September 14, 2010. The record was co-produced by Thriving Ivory,

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, and Grammy award-winning producer/mixer

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. The band took a hiatus from 2010-2016 to explore other opportunities and eventually ended their relationship with Wind Up Records. Original founding guitar player Andrew Cribley began to pursue other musical and creative outlets in the San Francisco Bay Area, while original founding drummer Paul Neidermier took a break from the band to focus on his family and other pursuits. In the summer of 2016, founding members, Scott Jason and Clayton Stroope began working on new material for what would be their first new release since 2010. After announcing this on social media the band was approached by Jeremy Lopez of the management firm Lippman Entertainment; however, shortly thereafter they decided to separate. Both Scott and Clayton have announced on their social media plans for moving forward but in different directions. Scott Jason subsequently launched a solo project under the name Scott Jason Through A Telescope and has released new songs on all digital platforms. Scott also volunteers for the 501(c)(3) non-profi
Angels on the Moon
and plays the occasional show, some of which help raise money for Angels on the Moon. In the fall of 2018 Clayton Stroope was signed by the Los Angeles–based publishing firm Riptide Music Group. He has since released an EP under the project name City Wolf, and has had tracks licensed by Amazon Prime, Fox Sports, Hulu, Marvel, Netflix, Activision, TNT, NISSAN, and NBC. He is currently collaborating on new project with licensing music veteran, rapper Easy McCoy, for the Los Angeles–based publishing/licensing firm Position Music. The duo was signed by United Talent Agency in the summer of 2020. In early 2021 Clayton teamed up with veteran writer/producer, and co-founder of the band

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, Tim Myers, on a solo album also set for release with Position Music.

Members

*Clayton Stroope –

Lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

*Scott Jason –

Songwriter A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...

Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

Keys Key, Keys, The Key or The Keys may refer to: Common uses * Key (cryptography), a piece of information needed to encode or decode a message * Key (instrument), a component of a musical instrument * Key (lock), a device used to operate a lock * ...

*Drew Cribley –

Guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

*Bret Cohune –

Bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

*Paul Niedermier –

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

*''Thriving Ivory EP'' (2003) *''Secret Life EP'' (2004) *''Rhapsody Originals EP'' (2008) *''Tell Me Your Name EP''(2009)

Singles

Music videos

References

External links

Soundcheck: Risers - THRIVING IVORY
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Thriving Ivory is Hotel Indigo's Summer Artist in the Spotlight
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