Colbie Caillat
Colbie Caillat is an american pop singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Malibu California.(born may 28th 1985). As a child her parents gave her the nickname of “Coco” which she later used as the name of her first album. As a child Colbie took piano lessons But lacked in inspiration until she was 11. She then realized to wanted to be a singer and began taking vocal lessons. At the age of 19 she began to play acoustic guitar and a producer named Mikal Blue helped her to record her first song. She then auditioned for American Idol where she was rejected at the pre-audition and was unable to sing for the judges. she then auditioned a second time the following year she sang her original song “bubbly” and was once again rejected. However Colbie was glad by the decisions of the judges. She expressed gratitude to them fro this saying “I was shy. I was nervous. I didn't look the greatest. I wasn't ready yet. I was glad when i auditioned, that they said no”.
2007-2008:Coco
Colbie’s MySpace profile became very popular after this and she became the number-one unsigned singer in her genre for four months. Her debut single was “Bubbly” and peaked and 5th on the Billboard Hot 100 and 2nd on the pop 100. It also reached 58th in the UK singles chart in september 2008 after 11 months in the chart. Two singles followed “realize” and “The little things”. In May 2008 she recorded a duet with Jason Mraz called “lucky” for his album ‘We sing we dance we steal things’. That same month Colbie recorded a cover song “Kiss the girl” from The little mermaid for Disney's DisneyMania 6 CD. In summer 2008 she became the supporting act for John Mayer summer tour.
August 2008 Colbie released a song and video for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics called “Somethin’ Special” and released another music video for her song “The Little Things” for the U.S. market.In October 2008 Colbie provided background vocals and co-wrote with Taylor Swift for Taylor’s song called “Breathe” on her album ‘Fearless’.
2009-2010: Breakthrough
Colbie’s second album titled ‘Breakthrough’ was released on August 2009. Most of the album was co-written by Jason Reeves, an American songwriter signed to Warner Bros. First single from Breakthrough “Fallin’ for you” was released on June 29, 2009. August 4, 2009 the album became available on iTunes with the bonus song “Hold your Head High”. The second single “I never told you” was released February 16 2010. June 2010 colbie recorded a remake of Blondies song maria for the Levi’s Pioneer’s Sessions.
2011(present day): All of you
September 12, 2010 colbie announced her upcoming album was being recorded and would be release in 2011. So far “I Do” has been release and hit number one on itunes on its first day. According to Colbie all the songs and their stories in this album are personal or friends experiences. The new album will be released on May 3, 2011.
Coco (2007)
Breakthrough (2009)
All of You (2011)
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