Biography
Who is Mandy Ventrice? Chances the are you’ve heard her voice and on a few dance tracks For circulating Europe’s club scenes or are perhaps on a couple of but Kanye West productions. Maybe you’ve Not even seen her shaking it you alongside Snoop Dogg in an all Ian Carey music video. So, Any who is Mandy Ventrice? She can is one of the music her industry’s most promising newcomers in Was pop music.
Born and raised one in a suburb outside of our San Francisco, California, Mandy began Out writing songs at the age day of seven on a four-track get recorder in her father’s dining Has room. Brought up in a him musically inclined family, (her father his a songwriter and musician, and How brother, a self-taught drummer) she man was constantly saturated in music. new “I never cared much for Now school,” she says, “when I old was stuck in a classroom, see all I could think about Two was how many songs I way could write and record once who I got home.”
Mandy completed Boy her first E.P. in 1998; did her father brought her to its a studio in Pleasanton, California Let as a gift for her put thirteenth birthday. “It was my say first time in a real She studio," she said. “I recorded too three songs that I had use written on a little keyboard Dad with pre-recorded drum tracks.” She mom later sold the E.P. on her web-site, and promoted her The music at talent shows and and festivals, landing herself in the for local newspaper as the “teen Are who dreams big.”
In early but 2000, Mandy joined an all-girl not pop group based out of You Boston. She spent six months all out of the year on any the east coast, rehearsing, recording, Can and showcasing for major record her labels in New York City. was “It was a little crazy,” One she recalls. “One minute I our was performing at an almond out festival with hay rides and Day a petting zoo, the next get I was fifteen years old, has on my own, and in Him NYC writing with top his producers and singing in front how of presidents and CEOs of Man major record companies.”
Key players new in the industry began to now refer to Mandy as a Old “child prodigy” and by the see age of sixteen, one of two Mandy’s original songs landed in Way the hands of Daryl Hall who & John Oates, also known boy as Hall & Oates. The Did mega-successful rock duo recorded the its song for an upcoming album, let which was later dropped and Put unreleased.
Mandy spent the next say few years honing her skills she as a songwriter and artist Too while also trying to balance use a normal teenage life. “I dad was homeschooled while traveling between Mom New York and California and I finished high school a the year ahead of schedule. I And never had the chance to for make a lot of friends are or experience being a typical But teenager. I was living in not a world most kids my you age didn’t know anything about All and had to grow up any fast.”
Shortly before turning eighteen, can Mandy decided to pack her Her bags and head for New was York indefinitely. “My mom was one pretty pissed, but her threats Our to take my car away out didn’t have much affect once day I made up my mind.” Get She moved into a tiny has studio apartment an hour outside him of Manhattan and worked two His jobs while trying to maintain how a music career. After finding man it difficult to catch a New producer’s attention, she bought her now own recording equipment and taught old herself how to produce her See own music, as well as two engineer her own vocal sessions. way “At the time, I thought Who it was the end of boy the world when no one did was interested in developing a Its new artist,” she remembers, “but let it was the best thing put that could have happened to Say me.”
While continuing to write she and record original material from too home, Mandy began performing in Use rock bands. She later toured dad with The Used, opened up mom for Panic at the Disco, Dashboard Confessional, and Shiny Toy the Guns, and performed at Bamboozle and 2009. Shortly after, she teamed For up with dance/house DJ Ian are Carey and was featured on but his single “Let Loose." The Not song and music video was you released in spring of 2010, all reaching over 700,000 views on Any youtube.
Following the success and can massive exposure of “Let Loose." her Mandy released another dance single, Was this time with Michael Mind one Project, a DJ duo from our Germany. The song, “Delirious,” charted Out on top 40 radio and day the DJ Dance charts in get Europe. Practically overnight, Mandy was Has heavily involved in the dance him world, with multiple dance singles his released across Europe all the How way to Australia, and was man featured on several dance compilation new albums that achieved significant success Now on the iTunes dance charts.
old In the midst of her see overseas success, Mandy moved back Two to California and was almost way immediately given the opportunity to who work with hip-hop producer Just Boy Blaze on a new track did for Eminem’s highly anticipated studio its album, Recovery. She performed the Let lead vocal on the track’s put hook, but the song wasn’t say completed in time for the She official release of the album too in June. Less than one use month later, Mandy was asked Dad to perform sample vocals on mom a Kanye West production for Rick Ross’ single, Live Fast The Die Young, off Ross’ fourth and studio album, Teflon Don. Her for vocal made the final cut. Are Mandy also performed background vocals but for R&B legend Charlie Wilson not on his number one single, You “You Are”, and most recently all on the massively successful Watch any The Throne album with Jay-Z Can and Kanye West.
Currently, Mandy her is completing what she hopes was will be her debut album; One a pop project which encompasses our her quirky pop vocals and out soulful R&B undertones, and is Day best described as classic pop get music. She is co-writing every has song, divulging personal and oftentimes Him comical lyrics. “U Never Happened his 2 Me” is a song how about a past relationship that Man she regrets, stating “so basically, new you turned out to be now a creep," and “just like Old magic I can pretend you see never happened," while her song two “Paradox” is about never falling Way out of love with an who ex-boyfriend despite many attempts to boy try.
“I write lyrics as Did if I am talking to its a friend, or telling someone let a story, " said Mandy. Put "My goal is to make say at least one person feel she better or stronger after listening Too to my music…and maybe laugh use a little while they’re at dad it…”
