Monday 10 October 2011

Short Biography for chosen artist

EXAMPLE

Name: Elliot John Gleave
Stage name: Example
Age: 29 years old
Birthday: 20 June 1982 
Location: West London
Genre of music: Electro house, grime, hip hop,dubstep
Years active: 1994-present

Example's third album Playing In The Shadows was released on 4 September 2011. The album debuted at number 1 on the UK Album Charts with two number 1 singles.
A British singer and rapper currently signed to Data Records. His pseudonym arose due to his initials being "e.g." which is a common abbreviation for 'for example'.

After releasing three singles through his own label 'All The Chats', including the original 7' version of 'I Dont Want To' in January 2006, Example received attention from Pete Tong, Zane Lowe and others at Radio 1. Example also caught the attention of people at four major record labels - perhaps most significantly Mike Skinner (of The Streets), owner of The Beats label.

Mixtapes
"We Didn't Invent the Remix" (2006)
"What We Almost Made" (2008)
"The Credit Munch" (2009)
"The Big Dog Blog Mix" with Wire (2010)



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