Calvin Harris

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Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris (born January 17 1984), is a British singer, songwriter and record producer. He was born and grew up in Dumfries, Scotland, UK.

1 History
- 1.1 First album
- 1.2 First single
2 Trivia
3 Today
4 See also
5 Other websites
6 References

[change] History

Calvin Harris signed record contracts with EMI (publishing) and Sony BMG (recording) in 2006, after his music had been found on the social networking website, MySpace.

[change] First album

His first album I Created Disco was released on 18 June 2007. The album contained uptempo electronic sounding songs that were influenced by music from the 1980s. To promote I Created Disco, Harris left to go on a tour of the UK, supporting Faithless and Groove Armada.^[1]^[2]

[change] First single

The first single release from the album, 'I crated Disco' was called "Vegas". It was released on limited edition vinyl. His second single from his album was called "Acceptable in the 80s", a tribute to the style and culture of the decade. The song reached the top ten on the UK singles chart, remaining on the chart for fifteen weeks.^[3] "The Girls" was the album's second charted single. The fourth release from the album was "Merrymaking at My Place" however it only reached #43 in the UK chart.

[change] Trivia

In 2007, Harris also recorded with Kylie Minogue. He had caught Minogue's attention after his recordings had been passed on to her by another record producer.^[1] Harris says that working with Kylie was "surreal, but fun" although revealed to mixmag in 2007 to "needing a few drinks before meeting her." It has been confirmed that Harris has co-written and produced two songs on the forthcoming Kylie album, 'In My Arms' and 'Heart Beat Rock'.

He has recently been given the credit as being the producer in a remixed version of The Mitchell Brothers song "Michael Jackson".