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Colbie Caillat
Acoustic / Soul / Folk



Los Angeles, California
United States

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Member Since2/3/2005
Band Websitecolbiecaillat.com
Band Members
Live Band:
Vocals: Colbie Caillat
Guitar: Justin Young
Guitar: Benjamin Hazlett
Drums: Craig McIntyre
Bass: Josh Nyback
Piano: Will Gramling

Influences

Lauryn Hill, Bob Marley, John Mayer, Fleetwood Mac, The Weepies, Brett Dennen, Gavin Degraw, Joni Mitchell, Coldplay, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Natasha BeddingField, Sheryll Crow, Hope, Platinum Pied Pipers, The Beatles, Tom Petty, Death Cab/Postal, The Eagles, Boys 2 Men, Jack Johnson, James Taylor, Jodeci, John Legend, Leona Naess, Marc Broussard, Tristan Prettyman, Norah Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Green, Keith Sweat, KebMo, Usher, Steel Pulse, Eddie Grant, Los Lonely Boys, Gipsy Kings, Frank Sinatra, Jason Mraz, Shane Alexander, Jason Reeves, Amber Rubarth, Dixie Chicks, Beyonce, Damien Rice, Cindy Lauper







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Sounds Like"Sweet honey flowing over rocks"
Record LabelUniversal Republic
Type of LabelMajor


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 18 2009 8:00P
Mares Vivas Festival Vila Nova de Gaia
Jul 20 2009 8:00P
Rivierenhof Antwerp
Jul 21 2009 8:00P
Paradiso Amsterdam
Jul 23 2009 8:00P
KKL Luzern
Sep 18 2009 5:00P
Arizona Fall Frenzy, Tempe Beach Park Tempe

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   About Colbie Caillat

Management:
Chad Jensen, The Fitzgerald Hartley Co
cjallclear@earthlink.net
www.FitzHart.com

Booking:
Brian Ahern, The William Morris Agency
bja@wma.com




"Lucky" Official Video With Colbie Caillat





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"Bubbly" - The Music Video

A great song, says Colbie Caillat, should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. Taking her own sound advice, "Coco", the debut album by the 22 year-old Californian singer-songwriter is simply crammed full of them.

In an age when marketing has been elevated above content and so many songs are written and produced to a pre-ordained formula, Caillat comes as a welcome breath of fresh air. Records these days seem to fall into two categories. The vast majority tend to contain one or two good tracks which you download to your computer so that you never have to listen to the rest of the album again. Far more rare are those that demand to be listened to from start to finish, with every song in perfect symmetry. Think of the kind of vintage, organically-crafted albums that Carole King or Joni Mitchell used to make. Thankfully, it's a tradition that is being kept alive today by the likes of Norah Jones, Jack Johnson - and now Colbie Caillat.

"If you listen to an album like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, every song has its place," she says. "If you took one away you'd spoil the balance of the entire record. That's the kind of album I wanted to make. It wouldn’t feel right to have my name on a record that was just a few good tracks and then lots of filler."

The reference to Fleetwood Mac is revealing. Caillat grew up in the idyllic clime of Malibu, California with music all around her. Her father, Ken Caillat, co-produced Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" and "Tusk" albums and later ran his own record label. As a child she recalls the likes of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie being around. "Of course I've learned a lot from them. You'd be a fool not to," she says. Yet she is totally her own woman.

She began singing with serious intent at the age of 11 after hearing Lauryn Hill's version of Killing Me Softly. "I think her voice is absolutely beautiful and it made me want to start singing so I entered a talent show and of course I sang a Lauryn Hill song." As she grew older, however, her father offered one crucial piece of advice. It was all very well having a great voice, he pointed out, the people who command real respect in the music business are the songwriters. "I thought about that for a long time", she says.

In truth, it took some time coming - but when it did, the floodgates opened. "I needed to play an instrument to write songs and although I had piano lessons as a kid, it never went anywhere because I was never in the right state of mind to practice," she recalls. Surprisingly, it wasn't until she was 19 - little more than two years ago -that she eventually took up the acoustic guitar. "I wrote my fist song after my very first guitar lesson and then it just all flowed out," she recalls. "If something's biting me I hold it in because that's the kind of person I am. Then it comes out in songs. Things builds up inside of me and I'll write three songs in a weekend. It's a release. I don't choose what to write about. It's just there."

Along the way, she found two key collaborators in Mikal Blue, who hired her when she was 15 to sing some songs he'd written for a fashion show, and singer/songwriter Jason Reeves. Together, they helped to craft the songs on "Coco," which Blue also produced.

"The songs always start put with me," she explains of the collaborative process. "I'll be sitting around at home getting bored and something will come out. Then if I get stuck, I can take it to Mikal or Jason. Having people you trust to bounce ideas around keeps the creativity flowing."

Once she had a bunch of songs, she put a few of them on MySpace, more in hope than expectation. "Nothing much happened for a few months," she remembers. "Then I wrote this song called Bubbly and put it up there and it got this huge reaction. I mean thousands and thousands of hits every day."

In the end, she became the number one unsigned artist on MySpace for four successive months, garnering an almost unbelievable 10 million plays. Record labels started courting her and she signed with Universal Republic because, she says, they offered her total creative freedom. "The great thing about MySpace is that you can build up an army of fans and then when you go to a record company, there's no point in them trying to change what you do because it's already been tried and tested," she points out.

Quite what it is about Bubbly that struck such a chord, she's still not entirely sure. "I guess it's the simplicity of the lyrics and the melody," she says. "It's meant to make you feel good and everybody can relate to it." And "Coco" - the album is named after a childhood nickname which stuck - is full of similarly memorable songs imbued with an irresistible warmth which draw on a rich array of influences. "I love all kinds of music and I've been influenced by all of it," she says. "Classic rock like Fleetwood Mac and the Steve Miller Band. Original soul like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Lauryn Hill. Bob Marley and reggae, John Mayer. Anything that makes you feel good."

And from the sunny, upbeat promise of songs such as Bubbly and Oxygen to the gentle, semi-r&b groove of The Little Things and the lilting reggae of Tied Down, "Coco" is one of those classic albums that simply makes you feel glad to be alive. "You make me smile, please stay for a while," she sings on Bubbly. It really ought to be her mantra.






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Jul 5 2009 4:18 PM

Hey Colbie
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Jul 5 2009 4:06 PM


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Jul 5 2009 3:36 PM

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Jul 5 2009 10:59 AM

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Jul 5 2009 9:53 AM

THANKSAMILLION FOR THE LOVE.MS.CHERISH
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Jul 5 2009 2:45 AM

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Jul 4 2009 11:41 PM

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Jul 4 2009 9:55 PM

Thanks for adding me! I'm working on my 2nd album "Stand Up" and will be posting my new songs soon! Keep in touch!
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Jul 4 2009 9:40 PM

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Jul 4 2009 9:25 PM


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Starting on Monday, July 6, 2009, through the rest of the month we'll be celebrating all that Michael Jackson has given to us as well as the music world. If you would please send us your favorite videos of him, and messages/comments that you'd like to share about him, or anything else it would be greatly appreciated. We'll put all comments in a blog and videos will be played on our page throughout the month. Thank you all for your participation!

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Jul 4 2009 8:49 PM

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Jul 4 2009 8:47 PM

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Jul 4 2009 8:18 PM

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Jul 4 2009 7:35 PM

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Jul 4 2009 7:25 PM

Hello

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