Taio Cruz
Jacob Taio Cruz (* 23. April 1980 in London as adetayo Ayowale Onile-Ere ) is a British R & B - singer and songwriter of Nigerian and Brazilian descent. By 2011 he has released three studio albums.
Music career
Beginnings
The song Your Game , which Cruz wrote for Will Young , went multi-platinum and won the Brit Award for best British single in 2005 . In 2006 he released his debut single I Just Wanna Know .
As the founder of the record label Rokstarr Music London, Taio Cruz maintains a joint venture partnership with the music companies Republic Records US and Island Records UK .
Departure (2006–2008)
Taio Cruz released his second single Moving On in September 2007, which reached the top 30 in the UK. His album Departure was released in the UK on March 18, 2008. The album went gold in the UK for over 100,000 units sold. Come On Girl became the next single from the album and reached number 5 on the UK charts. The songs I Can Be and She's Like a Star were also released as singles.
International breakthrough (2009-2010)
His album Rokstarr was released on October 12th. The first single, Break your Heart , peaked at number one in the UK and US. The single was released with and in the UK without Ludacris . Dirty Picture , a collaboration with American singer Ke $ ha , reached the top 10 in the UK. He then released the track No Other One . The fourth single on the album (second in the US) was Dynamite . Dynamite ranked number 1 in the UK and number two in the US. The fifth and final single from the album was called Higher . He sang these with Kylie Minogue and in the USA with Travie McCoy .
Studio album: TY.O
On December 2, 2011, his third album TY.O was released via Universal Music. Even before the album was released in Germany, the single Hangover was released , which after two weeks had already sold over 200,000 times and it received a gold record. The second release is called Troublemaker , which he presented on January 27 in the German casting show The Voice of Germany . On March 25, 2012, Taio Cruz released the third single There She Goes , which he recorded with rapper Pitbull . The album also features the single Little Bad Girl , on which he worked with Ludacris and David Guetta in 2011 . In July 2012 he released the song World in Our Hands as a single. It was used by ZDF as the 2012 Olympic Song and entered the German charts before it was released on CD.
As a Londoner, he received the honor of performing in front of millions of television viewers at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics . He sang his song Dynamite .
Fast Car is the second single in the US from the album TY.O . Fast Car was written especially for publication in the USA, but it was also able to position itself in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The single has officially been on the US market since August 14, 2012. The single was released in the UK on December 24th.
In the US and UK, the album TY.O was only released towards the end of 2012. There it was released with the new song Fast Car as an EP under the title The Fast Hits , on which only the most successful songs from the album, as well as remix versions of old titles can be found.
2014: #Black
His fourth studio album #Black was announced for 2014 . An exact release date has not been announced. At the end of 2013 some songs appeared on the internet. Including the songs Winner and Touch the Sky . On May 5, 2014, the song Don't You Dare was announced. The song celebrated its radio premiere on May 12, 2014. It will be the first single from the album. A release date was not announced for this either.
2015 to date: Roses Collection
Taio Cruz announced new music for April 27, 2015 on Twitter. There was also a countdown to the release on his official website. On May 27, 2015, the official music video for his new single Do What You Like celebrated its premiere on the VEVO video platform . However, the song did not establish itself commercially and did not reach the official singles charts in any country.
Later in 2015 he was also active as a DJ for a short time; so he was recorded by the Dutch record label " Spinnin 'Records ", for which he produced a series of its podcasts "Spinnin' Sessions". He also produced a vocal version for the club hit Booty Bounce with the German DJ and producer Tujamo . The song was able to enter the German single charts. At the same time, he stated that his long-awaited studio album #Black would not be released. He gave the reason that long players could no longer prevail and that individual singles would attract more attention. Instead, he wants to carry out this series of singles as the Roses Collection project . In 2017 he released the single Row the Body together with the American rapper French Montana .
In June 2018 he released the single signs together with the French DJ Hugel , which, however, did not make it into the charts in any country.
Discography
Studio albums
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Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2008 | Departure | - | - | - |
UK17th  (27 weeks)UK |
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First published: March 17th, 2008
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2009 | Rokstarr |
DE31 (16 weeks) DE |
AT36 (9 weeks)AT |
CH37 (27 weeks) CH |
UK14th  (5 weeks)UK |
US8 (26 weeks) US |
First published: October 12, 2009
Sales: + 1,200,000 |
| 2011 | TY.O |
DE28 (25 weeks) DE |
AT36 (8 weeks)AT |
CH15 (24 weeks) CH |
- | - |
First published: December 2, 2011
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Individual evidence
- ↑ companycheck.co.uk
- ↑ newssquared.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ germanchartblog on August 13, 2012; Retrieved September 1, 2012.
- ↑ Twitter. Everything that's going on right now. In: twitter.com. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Top 40 / M Future Releases | Mainstream Hit Songs Being Released and Their Release Dates ... In: All Access . ( allaccess.com [accessed December 27, 2016]).
- ↑ Taio Cruz Reveals Fast Car Music Video Premiere Date . In: Caesar Live N Loud . ( caesarlivenloud.com [accessed December 27, 2016]).
- ↑ Ty.O. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Taio Cruz - TY.O Album Art + Tracklist . In: Def Pen . November 4, 2011 ( defpenradio.com [accessed December 27, 2016]).
- ↑ twitter.com
- ↑ Taio Cruz | Official. In: Taio Cruz: Official. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Do What You Like (Official Video) - Taio Cruz. In: VEVO. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Taio Cruz: That's why there is no more new album from him. In: Promiflash. Retrieved February 19, 2017 .
- ↑ jumpradio.de: Hugel & Taio Cruz "Signs" | MDR JUMP . ( jumpradio.de [accessed on July 17, 2018]).
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ http://www.musikmarkt.de/Aktuell/News/News/Taio-Cruz-sracht-mit-Dynamite-fuer-Rekord-bei-Def-Jam-mit-Videos ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Taio Cruz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Taio Cruz at Allmusic (English)
- Taio Cruz at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cruz, Taio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cruz, Jacob Taio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British singer and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |