Mayer Hawthorne

Mayer Hawthorne ( born February 2, 1979 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; actually Andrew Mayer Cohen ) is an American soul musician. His stage name is derived from the middle name and the street where he grew up ( Hawthorne Road, Ann Arbor ).

Life

Hawthorne grew up in the university town of Ann Arbor and moved to Los Angeles later. There, the music producer Chris Manak ( Peanut Butter Wolf ) noticed him and signed him to his label Stones Throw Records. Originally Hawthorne was entered as a hip -hop producer in appearance; He had rather produced jokingly Soul Music: " It is an expensive and annoying procedure if you need to obtain permission for the use of a sample. I wanted to see if I can not even import the sounds that I need time. "

The multi-instrumentalist composes, produces, sings and plays his songs completely alone one. Hawthorne's arrangements and his falsetto vocals reminiscent of the golden Motown era of the 1960s and 1970s, to soul legends such as Curtis Mayfield, Smokey Robinson, Isaac Hayes or Barry White. Yet Hawthorne copied his musical idols not easy, but expresses his music its own distinctive stamp on "My sound is evident from Curtis Mayfield as the classic Motown sound influenced, but I 'm just grew up in the eighties, have as a DJ and worked hip- hop producer, so I approach the music of another, fresher position as a musician from the sixties. "

Is correspondingly large Hawthorne's popularity among many U.S. rappers. How to Snoop Dogg denote the young artist as one of his favorite musicians.

Hawthorne's debut album A Strange Arrangement was published in 2009 and was received by the critics with great praise. In early 2011 gave Hawthorne known his move to the record company Universal Republic, where he released his hand again produced second studio album How Do You Do, which came in Germany on October 4, 2011 on the market.

Discography

Albums

  • A Strange Arrangement (2009, Stones Throw Records)
  • How Do You Do (2011, Universal Republic )
  • Where does this Door Go (2013, Universal Republic )
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