Taio Cruz

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Adetayo Ayowale Onile-Ere (; born 23 April 1980), known professionally as Jacob Taio Cruz ( TY-oh), is a British singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer.

Cruz was discovered in the mid-2000s by American record producer Tricky Stewart, joining the latter's record company RedZone Entertainment as in-house talent. After several years in songwriting, he released his R&B-styled debut single "I Just Wanna Know" in 2006. A modest hit and his first UK singles chart entry, its success led him to sign with Republic Records and Island Records' UK branch. The labels released his debut studio album, Departure (2008), which he solely wrote, arranged and produced. It received gold certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and earned critical praise, as well as a nomination at the 2009 Music of Black Origin Awards (MOBO).

Cruz adopted an EDM-pop sound for his subsequent releases. His second album, Rokstarr (2009), was met with further commercial success, entering 13 international music charts and peaking within the top ten of the Billboard 200. Despite mixed critical response, it was preceded by the single "Break Your Heart", which peaked atop both the UK singles chart and Billboard Hot 100, and spawned the single "Dynamite", which peaked at atop the former chart and peaked at number two on the latter. Two further singles, "Dirty Picture" (with Kesha) and "Higher" (featuring Kylie Minogue or Travie McCoy), peaked within the UK chart's top ten. Cruz performed the song "Telling the World" as the lead single for the 2011 animated film Rio's soundtrack. His third studio album, TY.O (2011), moderately entered several international charts, but failed to enter the UK Albums or the Billboard 200; it contained the UK hits "Hangover" (featuring Flo Rida) and "There She Goes" (featuring Pitbull).

He has since released several non-album singles, and co-wrote several hit songs including Tinchy Stryder's "Never Leave You" (2009), Jennifer Lopez's "I'm Into You" (2011), David Guetta's "Without You", "Wish U Were Here" by Cody Simpson (both 2012), and "Kiss Me" by Olly Murs (2014).

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Taio Cruz, de son nom complet Jacob Taio Cruz (/ˈdʒeɪkəb taɪəʊ ˈkɹuːz/), est un auteur-compositeur, chanteur anglais né le 23 avril 1980 à Londres. Il œuvre sur les terres musicales du R&B bien qu'il considère lui-même sa musique comme pop. Egalement producteur de musique primé au MOBO et nommé par le MOBO. Il crée son propre label et signe un partenariat avec le label Republic (Universal).

Sa carrière décolle au moment où il sort son single avec Ludacris intitulé Break Your Heart. Ce titre reste cinq semaines dans le US Top 40 (Billboard) en 2010. Le second single de ce premier album s'intitule Dynamite et sort au mois de juillet 2010.

Son single Your Game chanté par Will Young a été nommé au meilleur single de l'année aux Brit Awards en 2007. Son album Rokstarr (2009) contient les singles Break Your Heart et Dynamite. Cruz collabore avec plusieurs artistes notamment Kesha sur le single Dirty Picture. Kylie Minogue et Travie McCoy sur son single Higher. Il a écrit et enregistré la chanson Telling the World en tant que premier single de la bande originale du film d'animation Rio (2011). Le troisième album studio de Cruz, TY.O , est sorti pour la première fois en Allemagne en décembre 2011, d'autres collaborations d'artistes incluent le rappeur Pitbull sur There She Goes, ainsi que Ludacris et David Guetta sur le titre Little Bad Girl.

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