Miguel

Miguel, the Los Angeles native has one of those raw honey falsettos that oozes into your soul and stays there, even after the music stops. Billboard Magazine exclaims, Miguel, 24, "offers both the sweetness of Babyface and the passion of R. Kelly."

With the album tracks on his ByStorm/Jive debut, All I Want Is You, Miguel certainly delivers. Through his longtime partnership with LA-based underground stalwarts Fisticuffs, and his visits with veteran boardsmen such as Salaam Remi and Dre & Vidal, Miguel has cooked up a truly genre-bending mixture of sounds. On the same platter, you'll find traces of the Cali avant garde hip-hop he picked up from his long time high school friend Blu; the funk, electro and classic rock he borrowed from his crate-digging Mexican-American dad; and the big, rich harmonies of his African-American mom's traditional soul.

With more than 8 million plays on MySpace, his current and second single off his album, "Sure Thing" has captivated fans and reached #1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The slow-burn makeup song features a chopped-and-screwed hook with rock candy-sweet lyrics with the song is based on a true story.

"I wrote 'Sure Thing' after I cheated on my girlfriend at the time," Miguel reveals. "Instantly, I knew I had made a mistake and I didn't want to do it again. I started writing all these metaphors about how she and I belonged together like, 'If you be the cash, I'll be the rubber band' and 'You be the match, I'm a be your fuse.' That song helped me sort out how I was feeling about her."

Not only did "Sure Thing" help Miguel get his girl back, it compelled industry veteran Mark Pitts, JIVE Label Group's President of Urban Music and the CEO of ByStorm Entertainment, to sign the songwriter to an artist deal in June 2007. "Sure Thing" also reached number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Miguel is back with his third single "Quickie" which is impacting radio now.

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