Craig David

Craig David , born the May 5th 1981 with Southampton (Hampshire, England), is a British Musicien .

Biography

He shares his childhood, rather without history, between the universe of the Hip hop and the new culture British garage. Impassioned by the music, it starts to compose its first songs on its Bloc-notes and its Dictaphone.

As of 14 years, it enters as “MC” a local Pirate radio station where rates/rhythms R' mix B, Ragga and sounds garage. In turn MC and DJ, the young man occurs in the clubs of his birthplace and meets the DJ Mark Hill of the Artful Dodger, the spiritual fathers of the 2-step.

The power is on quickly. They are first of all pointed out by a Reprise again in version garage of the tube Human of Human League, before recording a piece entitled Rewind , mixture of R' B and garage. Rewind collects a sharp success in the discotheques and the movement underground of on the other side of the channel, which makes it possible Craig to obtain a contract near the Wildstar label.

Influenced in particular by Stevie Wonder, Usher and Faith Evans, the young person Métis then attacks its first individual in solo: Wire Me In . The disc makes a tobacco and climbs immediately in the first place of the Hit-parade S.

In August 2000 its first album Born To Do It follows, with crossed kinds pop and R' B, which makes known it in whole Europe. It runs out of them more 70  000 specimens as of the day of its exit.

Are the two following albums ( Slicker Than Your Average and The Story Goes ) a success minus Net, in spite of some individual noticed, of which What' S your flava? . He also collaborates with Sting for Rise & Fall , where he uses the melody of Shape off my heart .

Its fourth album, Trust me , is announced for on November 12th, 2007. The first individual one extracted Hot Stuff (Let' S Dance) is a sample David Bowie (with its approval). The album was recorded between London and Cuba with the producer Martin Terefe (producing of KT Tunstall, Cat Stevens, James Morrison…) and Fraser T. Smith, a collaborator of long time.

Discography

Albums

  • 2000 : Born To Do It
  • 2002: Slicker Than Your Average
  • 2005 : The Story Goes...
  • 2007 : Trust Me

Individual

  • 2000 : Wire Me In
  • 2000: 7 Days
  • 2000: Walking Away
  • 2001 : Rendezvous
  • 2002: What' S Your Flava?
  • 2003 : Hidden Diary
  • 2003: Small channel & Fall (featuring Sting)
  • 2003: Spanish
  • 2003 : World Filled With Coils
  • 2005: All The Way
  • 2005 : Don' T Coils You No More (I' m Sorry)
  • 2006: Unbelievable
  • 2007 : Hot Stuff (Let' S Dance)

Collaborations

  • 2000 : Woman Disturbs (Artful Dodger)
  • 2003: Small channel and Fall (featuring Sting)
  • 2007: This Is The Girl (featuring Kano)
  • 2007: Bad Servant boy (featuring Kano)

External bond

  • www.craigdavid.co.uk
  • Words of songs of Craig David
  • Myspace Craig David

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