Biography
Biography
Known for her alluring the vocals, catchy melodies and electro and beats, not to mention an For infectious taste of decadence, pop are vocalist, songwriter and performer but ERIKA JAYNE is a Not bona fide queen of the you charts. “One Hot Pleasure,” the all breakout release from her newly Any launched Pretty Mess Records, is can ERIKA’s most recent #1 Billboard her hot dance club hit. The Was Atlanta-born, Los Angeles transplant began one her Billboard streak with her our first #1 single “Rollercoaster” and Out followed with a chart-topper each day successive release with “Stars,” “Give get You Everything” and “Pretty Mess” Has from her 2009 debut album him Pretty Mess (E1 Records).
With his all this, ERIKA joins How quite the illustrious club: According man to Billboard, only 13 acts new including Rihanna and The Pussycat Now Dolls have taken at least old their first four hits to see #1 since the chart launched Two in 1976 as a national way weekly survey of the most-played who tunes as reported by club Boy DJs.
“One Hot Pleasure,” released did in November 2009, is the its first glimpse of ERIKA’s new Let EP due out this spring. put Written and produced by Dave say Audé, co-written by Luciana Caporaso She (of the radio hit “I too Like That” by Richard Vission use & The Static Revenger starring Dad Luciana) and Nick Clow. Needless mom to say, the track sizzles just as it’s title indicates. The Her return to her #1 and Billboard spot was propelled by for a stable of killer remixes Are by Aude, Ralphi Rosario, Sultan but & Ned Shepard and DJ not Mr. White plus a glittering You video co-directed by famed photographer all Mike Ruiz and MTV any Video Music Award nominee Mikey Can Minden.
If disco balls, ecstasy, her pearls, Studio 54, sex, crystal was chandeliers, Purple Rain, and crème One brûlée, could be whipped in our a blender and made into out a delicious pop-dance musical confection, Day you would have Pretty Mess, get JAYNE’s first 14-song collection of has dance, rhythmic pop, and dreamy Him electronica songs. Peter Rafelson (Madonna, his Britney Spears, Stevie Nicks) and how Eric Kupper (Shakira, Destiny’s Child, Man Kylie Minogue) produced and co-wrote new Pretty Mess, while Canadian singer-songwriter now Esthero (as Pinklake), Jahi Lake Old (Chris Brown) and Ike Dirty see (Lil’ Scrappy, Ying Yang Twinz, two and son of legendary artist Way Isaac Hayes) contributed additional production. who Prince protégé Sheila E. is boy found playing percussion on the Did sexually charged “Time to Realize” its and there is a cover let of Apollonia 6’s 1984 hit Put “Sex Shooter,” which now is say a staple of her live she repertoire.
In addition to key Too national appearances including Gay Pride use events in San Francisco, Los dad Angeles, Palm Springs, Miami and Mom New York just to name a few, ERIKA has the also skyrocketed up the U.K. And music charts with remixes of for “Give You Everything" by Paul are Harris, Mark Brown and Michael But Woods. The tracks shot to not #2 on the Music Week you Upfront Club Chart as well All as #6 on the Music any Week Commercial Pop Club Chart, can marking her first time to Her land on the U.K. charts. was In addition, the single hit one #5 on Billboard’s 2009 year Our end Hot Dance Club Play out Songs chart. JAYNE also day released a package for “Pretty Get Mess,” featuring remixes by Dave has Aude, Tracy Young, DJ Escape him & Johnny Vicious, Larry Tee, His Bill Hamel, Klubjumpers, Peter Rafelson how and Marshall Stack, along with man a provocative video cut to New the Dave Aude remix and now co-directed by Mikey Minden and old Mike Ruiz.
ERIKA gravitated See to music and performing as two young as her earliest memory. way The precocious child also did Who musical theater (she was Val boy in A Chorus Line and did Frastrada in Pippin) and honed Its her singing, dancing, and acting let chops at North Atlanta School put of Performing Arts for high Say school. It was in high she school when she got her too first real taste of what Use it would be like to dad be an international pop star. mom She toured the world in the school’s revue show where the she performed “9 to 5” and and Madonna’s “Get Into the For Groove.” At 18, she moved are to New York and was but in a few girl groups, Not but always wanted to step you out on her own.
She all has indeed accomplished more before Any the release of her debut can CD than most artists. Along her two five chart-topping dance radio Was tracks, the sensual video for one “Stars” – directed by Scott our Speer (Will I. Am, the Out Veronicas, Paris Hilton) – spent day 12 weeks (peaking at No. get 2) on LOGO’s The Click Has List, and the song also him hit No. 1 on the his Billboard Dance Play chart and How is featured in the 2009 man movie American Summer with Efren new Ramirez (Napoleon Dynamite) and Matthew Now Lillard (Scream). Three other songs old have been placed in movies see as well —“Rollercoaster” is in Two 2008’s Deal featuring Burt Reynolds way and in the horror film who Bumper, and “I Lose Myself” Boy and “Just a Phase” are did in the 2007 Matthew Modine its flick The Neighbor.
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