Monday, January 17, 2011

Profile of the week: Duncan Daniels

Genre: Pop
Secondary Genre: Urban/R&B

Boston
Massachusetts
USA


For the 3rd week running, Teasertube is bringing the profile of your favourite Artiste across the globe. This week the radar is on Duncan Daniels, one of Nigeria's finest producers based in the States. Get informed!


Biography
Duncan Daniels
Duncan Daniels is a 26yr Old American musician, producer, and song writer of Nigerian origin. Born in Boston Massachusetts and raised in England and Nigeria.  Later moved back to the states in his early 20's to study Music Production & Engineering at Berkley College of Music in Boston Massachusetts. Duncan Daniels brings to life a very diverse mix of Pop, Rock, and R&B and brings a unique and versatile style of musicianship into the industry to suit the modern urban radio era.
Duncan Daniels who started writing music and playing the piano at the age of 11, accredits his interests to artists such as U2, Bon Jovi, and even the late great Michael Jackson. At the age of 15, he started producing music and has worked with various Record labels and production companies worldwide. His debut album was released in 2006 entitled “I Don Taya”. A 12 track album that holds till today classic tunes such as "Will Tomorrow Ever Come", "Take me Home" to name a few. Now his back with a fresh new sound and style and has teamed up with MTV Africa 2009 award winning Rapper M.I. to produce another hit song which he titled ‘Like This’ also his most popular song at the moment, on so many music charts worldwide. Including gaining a spot on the worldwide Coast2Coast Mixtape Vol 87 Hosted by NINA SKIES. presented by Lil Fats.



Duncan Daniels who is an avid Traveler has also performed at major events all around the globe. The Uk, Africa, Canada, The U.S etc and have produced numerous artistes world wide. Recently Duncan Daniels visited Lagos Nigeria to shoot the music video to hit single 'Like This" ft M.I(which recently won a placement on FUSE TV on Demand now available free on Comcast, Fox, Cablevision, and FiOS, as well as Verizon VCast and Joost for all of March 2010)and since after then have been promoting his most recent 19 track Album "Sho Stoppah just released February 14th 2010, it features artists like Mode 9, M.I, Naira, Felyne and many more. From the look of both album release parties held in Boston and in Africa, one can't help but recognize the hard work that Duncan Daniels has put in especially as an unsigned independent Artist. This, so true, landed him a spot on the "Independent Husslers" segment of The Coast2Coast Magazine February 2010 Issue #5. Duncan Daniels steadily represents the city of Boston, Brixton Uk, & Nigeria in his music style and words and is a face to keep an eye on as the year progresses.

Just recently Duncan Daniels Video for "Like This" ft M.I just got on The MTV BASE music video charts and is getting massive spins all over Africa and parts of Europe. Duncan Daniels also just Released a new Hot single titled "Ready for Love" which was officially released on ITUNES June 15th 2010.



Like This ft M.I 


Pages/Music Links etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-1E9HHxDn4

http://www.facebook.com/dunkishrock

http://www.twitter.com/dunkishrock

http://www.reverbnation.com/dunkishrock

http://www.myspace.com/dunkishrock

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19848186573&ref=ts#/pages/Duncan-Daniels/38555846853