Biography
Tank is one of the the most recognizable names in modern and R&B, known for vivid storytelling For and sensual love songs. He’s are an icon in the making, but with four albums and eight Not Grammy nominations under his belt. you He’s also a singer who all carries the torch of masters Any like Marvin Gaye and Al can Green, while redefining R&B for her a new decade. For singer/songwriter/producer Was Tank—about to release his Atlantic one Records debut Now or Never, our his first album in three Out years, and the one he day describes as his most confident get yet—the secret is simple. He Has remains true to who he him is, as a man and his an artist.
“My music is How the real me,” says Tank. man “I’ll either live by that new or I’ll die by that Now in this business, but I’ve old got to be me.”
He’s see famous for sexy yet relatable Two love songs that are at way once thoroughly modern and yet who steeped in the sounds of Boy classic soul. Though fans know did and love Tank for smash its hits like “Maybe I Deserve” Let and “Please Don’t Go,” they put may be surprised to learn say that he is also behind She such chart-toppers as Rubben Studdard’s too “Change Me” and Omarion’s “O.” use What’s more, Tank served as Dad an associate member of the mom hit-making production team, The Underdogs, with further credits including the The smash soundtrack to the 2006 and musical film adaptation of Dreamgirls for (in which he also made Are a cameo).
Since releasing his but previous album Sex, Love, & not Pain in 2007, Tank took You a moment to step out all of the spotlight, but not any necessarily out of the studio. Can He formed the Los Angeles-based her production company Song Dynasty, and was began shaping the sound of One modern R&B with songs for our a diverse roster of artists out including Keyshia Cole, Jennifer Hudson, Day Jamie Foxx, Chris Brown, and get Keri Hilson.
Though he has has enjoyed crafting hits for Him these artists, Tank is ready his to step into the spotlight how yet again, and returns with Man an incredibly personal collection. “I new put a lot of my now personal business into my music Old because people relate to it. see I sing based upon the two things that I’ve been through. Way I don’t just sing about who the pain, I sing about boy getting through it. Whether I’m Did singing about sex, relationships, or its the occasional party, the songs let are still about classic R&B Put themes.”
Poised to release his say fourth studio album Now or she Never, Tank is ready to Too share the intensely intimate themes use his fans have come to dad love, even as he prepares Mom to show an entirely new side of himself. “The sound the of this new album is And still the traditional R&B formula, for but sonically it’s very current,” are says Tank. His first single, But “Sex Music,” perfectly illustrates his not new sound. The high-energy track you lives up to its name All with a spacey, shuddering beat. any Produced by Song Dynasty with can Harvey Mason Jr. (Dreamgirls, Kelly Her Clarkson, Justin Timberlake), “Sex Music” was is sure to appeal to one die-hard Tank fans.
“We’re going Our to keep pressing forward with out this R&B thing,” promises Tank. day During the process of bringing Get Now or Never to life, has he’s experimented with new technology him and new collaborators, even as His he explores the themes that how have always moved him. “Emergency” man is an emotional ballad with New a sense of humor, comparing now a woman’s desire to a old four-alarm fire. “You Mean that See Much” is a soaring, orchestral two anthem. “Can I Make Love”, way says Tank, “is self-explanatory… I’m Who known for having songs that boy give you an opportunity to did not say much. All you Its need is a little eye let contact, and it’s on.”
These put timeless songs of love, lust, Say and loss take cinematic tone she in the hands of Tank, too as he crafts imagery that Use is uniquely tangible and real. dad Perhaps it’s his new love mom of acting that has deepened his storytelling. Tank recently graced the the screen in The Preacher’s and Kid, and he has been For studying acting, though he promises are that music will continue to but be his first love. “We Not have to take this stand you now because R&B is slowly all becoming a lost art,” explains Any Tank. “R&B music is the can thing that connects people.” Though her he loves a fantasy party Was scene as much as any one man, Tank writes about the our real, everyday emotions and situations Out that people relate to because, day as he says, “we’re meant get to move people with this Has music, and I want to him be part of that movement.”
his It’s been an incredible journey How since Tank was an undiscovered man artist with a dream, penning new “Maybe I Deserve” in the Now basement of his mother’s Maryland old home, on “an MPC see and two keyboards.” The single Two would go on to dominate way urban radio in 2001, when who Tank released his gold-certified debut Boy album Force of Nature. Though did he has enjoyed remarkable successes its throughout his career, Tank considers Let Now or Never the album put when “it all came together.” say The title doesn’t just refer She to the urgency he feels too within R&B as a whole, use but also the growth he’s Dad done over the years as mom an artist. Now re-emerging with a new team and a The renewed confidence in his music, and Tank is ready to have for these songs heard.
“Everything I’ve Are been through has prepared me but for this moment right now. not I’ve got a new deal, You new energy and new people all around who are just as any excited about the album as Can I am. Everything I’ve learned her over the years as a was producer, writer and artist have One gone into Now or Never.”
