Taio Cruz

Taio Cruz is a British singer songwriter, record producer , occasional rapper , and enterpriser In 2008, he launched his debut album Departure , which he composed, organized and made himself. It reached first success in great Britain and gained him a MOBO Award nomination.

In Oct 2009, Cruz launched his follow up record Rokstarr , including the number-one singles Split Your Heart and Dynamite. Cruz has collaborated with Kesha and Fabolous to the solitary Filthy Picture, in addition to Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy on his solitary Higher. Moreover, Cruz written and recorded the tune Telling the Globe as the direct single in the soundtrack to the 2011 animated picture Rio Cruz’s third studio album, TY.O , was released in Germany in December 2011. In 2012 Cruz co-composed the tune Without You.

Cruz came to be in London, into a Nigerian father along with a Brazilian mom in the state of Minas Gerais He attended Bilton Grange , an exclusive prep college in Rugby , Warwickshire.

Cruz started composing songs when he was 1-2. His song-writing career started at age 1 9 as a part of Challenging Stewart ‘s composing collective, RedZone Enjoyment. Cruz realized notability in 2005 when he was granted a Brit Award for cowriting Will Youthful ‘s 2004 single, Your Sport .

Cruz is the creator and ceo of Rokstarr Music London, which in 2006 launched his debut solitary I Just Want to Know . The solitary brought major interest from radio, and in addition from music business insiders, who have been already well-aware of the musician’s potentiality; supervisor Jamie Binns, who started symbolizing Cruz as of this time, afterwards told HitQuarters :He was some guy that everyone had ear-marked to do harm in the future.; Even though the solitary got a fair amount of radio air play, it didn’t perform together with anticipated in either land. Yet, instead of lose religion in Cruz, labels were ready to negociate a record deal, as by this time they’d listened to his other tunes and were ever-more sure by his capableness.

Cruz’s admirers contained Island Records ‘s Darcus Beese and Monte Lipman , who, according to Binns,equally considered ‘I Just Want to Know’ matched the structure on each side of the Atlantic.; In 2006, Cruz signed a schism single offer with Common Music Team firms, Republic Records as well as the UK division of Island Records.