![]() Hopefully, I’m gonna start working with him again – really good. I was talking to M-Phazes lately and he mentioned that he stayed with you guys when he was working with Amerie?Īloe Blacc: Yeah, he’s a great producer. Music Feeds: You obviously have Australian connections here through Maya. This month, the Los Angeles-based Blacc – last here in October for the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games in Sydney – will play dates such as the Perth Festival, Twilight At Taronga and Zoo Twilights. Blacc even had a holiday compilation, Christmas Funk, boldly reinventing Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’. He recently issued ‘I Count On Me’, used to promote Green Book – the movie now nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Through 2018, Blacc shared solo singles, notably the breezy ‘Brooklyn In The Summer’, and various collabs. (He has collaborated with other Aussie acts too, like Melbourne rare-groove band The Bamboos.)īlacc has kept himself busy since Lift… He performed at Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert in Madison Square Garden, cameoed in the acclaimed sitcom Black-ish, and presented the IMAX documentary America’s Musical Journey. Along the way, Blacc married Maya Jupiter, a trailblazing Australian MC and former triple j host. Lift… – with input from Pharrell Williams – garnered Blacc a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Album. In 2013, he dropped his first major label album, Lift Your Spirit, generating another hit in the Elton John-referencing ‘The Man’. Signing to Interscope, Blacc released an acoustic rendition of ‘Wake Me Up!’. ![]() Traversing bluegrass, country and EDM, ‘Wake Me Up!’ aired as the lead single from Avicii’s 2013 debut, True, topping charts globally and accruing multi-platinum sales. ![]() Blacc was offered a management deal by Simon Fuller – architect of the Spice Girls and the Idol telly franchise.īlacc experienced his most unexpected triumph with the late Swedish DJ Avicii, co-writing the festie staple ‘Wake Me Up!’. The song was so ubiquitous that Connecticut indie rapper Chris Webby slyly remixed it alongside Mac Miller. ![]() Four years on, he crossed over with the follow-up, Good Things – its bluesy single ‘I Need A Dollar’, synced as the theme to HBO’s How To Make It In America, a smash. Blacc morphed into a socially-conscious singer/songwriter with 2006’s credible solo debut, Shine Through, on Stones Throw Records. ![]()
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