€œWell, to me the number four is a number that kinda follows us AROUND, or at least certainly follows ME around. Titling his new album “Everything Is 4†As an ever-affable Jason - who this year sits alongside both Paula Abdul and Nigel Lythgoe as a judge on US TV’s high-profile “So You Think You Can Dance†and who in 2014 became American radio’s most played male artist - reacquaints himself with “Blues & Soul†Assistant Editor Pete Lewis for a revealing in-depth interview.
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€¦ All of which brings us back to today and the release of the aforementioned new album “Everything Is 4â€. Since which time Jason has impressively gone on to release three globally-successful albums - 2010’s “Jason Derulo†2011’s “Future History†2013’s “Tattoos†(whose chart life was significantly extended by the 2014 release of “Talk Dirtyâ€, the North-American-repackaged version which featured four newly-recorded songs) - which have between them prestigiously spawned no less than ten career Platinum singles, including 2010’s “In My Headâ€, 2013’s 2 Chainz-featuring/multi-award-nominated “Talk Dirtyâ€, and 2014’s Snoop Dogg-featuring “Wiggleâ€.
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Rotem’s Warner Music Group-affiliated label Beluga Heights, for whom his 2009 Imogen Heap-sampling debut single “Whatcha Say†would go on to top the US Hot 100 while also attaining bona fide worldwide success. All of which would eventually lead to his own solo recording deal with multi-Platinum producer (of then-chart-topping Sean Kingston/Rihanna fame) J.R. Diddy, Danity Kane, Cassie, Sean Kingston and Lil Wayne. Meanwhile, having by his mid-teens already tasted success as an actor (via lead roles in theatre productions like “Ragtimeâ€, “Smokey Joe’s Café†and “Lucky Stuffâ€), from the age of 16 an adolescent Derulo would also go on to prove himself a successful songwriter to stars-of-the-day like P.
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Which would in turn eventually lead to him in 2006 graduating from New York’s nationally-prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). Meanwhile, with him also beginning Performing Arts School at eight years old, Jason would spend much of his youth studying opera, theatre and ballet. Which is currently being pioneered big-time on radio airwaves across the globe by the throbbing bass, falsetto vocals and punchy hooks of its Ian Kirkpatrick-produced first offshoot single “Want To Want Meâ€.īorn Jason Joel Desrouleaux into a Haitian/American family in Miramar, Florida on September 21, 1989, Derulo’s musical talent would come to the fore early on, with him writing his first song at the tender age of eight. Having already impressively attained close on 50 million worldwide record sales in just five years, US superstar singer/songwriter/dancer Jason Derulo this month comes correct with the release of his eagerly-anticipated new album “Everything Is 4â€.