Description
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Artist
Born: May 5, 1981, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Soulful vocalist whose early releases were a defining factor in the UK garage sound. More recently he has been moving towards a standard RNB style.
David was born in Holyrood, Southampton, Hampshire, the son of Tina (née Loftus), a retail assistant at Superdrug, and George David, a carpenter. David's father is a Grenadian and David's mother is an English Jew related to the founders of the Accurist watch-making company; David's maternal grandfather was an Orthodox Jew and his maternal grandmother a convert to Judaism. David's parents separated when he was eight and he was raised by his mother. He attended Bellemoor School.
David's father played bass in a reggae band called Ebony Rockers. As a teen, David began accompanying his father to local dance clubs, where DJs let him take the microphone.
David's earliest exposure came when he worked on a b-side to British group Damage's cover of "Wonderful Tonight". He then started doing vocals for a few tracks with garage act Artful Dodger. The song "Re-Rewind", from the Artful Dodger album It's All About the Stragglers, hit Number 2 on the UK charts in 1999; thus, paving the way for a solo career. David's first single, "Fill Me In", released on Colin Lester's and Ian McAndrew's Wildstar Records made him the youngest solo male artist ever to reach Number 1 in the United Kingdom (he was 18 years old at the time). This was the first of a string of four Top 10 singles from his debut album Born To Do It, which eventually sold more than seven million units worldwide, earning multi-platinum status in more than 20 countries. The song "Key To My Heart", taken from the US version of the album, was also featured on the award-winning Warner Brothers animated film Osmosis Jones.
Tracks
1
Ain't Giving Up
02:38
2
When The Bassline Drops
03:05
3
Don't Go
03:27
4
16
03:48
5
Couldn't Be Mine
03:01
6
One More Time
03:14
7
Change My Love
03:24
8
Nothing Like This
03:02
9
Got It Good
03:49
10
All We Needed
03:37
11
Louder Than Words
04:05
12
What If
03:39
13
Like A Fan
05:07
14
Better With You
03:13
15
No Holding Back
02:44
16
Here With Me
03:12
17
Warm It Up
03:11
18
Sink Or Swim
03:21
Releases
Formats
CD, Vinyl, File, CDr
Labels
Sony Music , Sony Music, Sony Records Int'l, Speakerbox
Countries
Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Europe, UK & Europe
