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Colbie Caillat
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By age 21, Californian vocalist Colbie Caillat had evolved swiftly from an aspiring R&B/folk singer to a pop sensation with the marketing assistance of a little networking tool called Myspace. She grew up in Malibu and Ventura County and caught the music bug at an early age from her father Ken Caillat, an established audio engineer who helped produce Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Tusk. Songs were often mixed at the console in her Malibu beach house, filling the corridors with the sounds of Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, and other '80s pop/rock. As a child, Caillat gave piano lessons a try but wasn't inspired until she turned 11 years old and became enthralled watching Lauryn Hill sing in Sister Act 2. Immediately realizing that she wanted to be a singer, and with her parents' encouragement, she started taking vocal lessons. At age 15, in a twist of fate, she met Mikal Blue, a producer who had previously worked with Five for Fighting and Carrie Underwood. He hired her to sing on a few techno songs that were to be used during runway models' shows and they cultivated a professional relationship and began writing together. At 19, she picked up an acoustic guitar and the two recorded the first song she composed.

As the collaboration thickened, Jason Reeves entered the picture and lent his artistic know-how to help shape and craft the music for her debut, Coco. Caillat wrote the basic melodies, usually in her bathroom because of the reverby acoustics, and would then bounce her ideas off Blue or Reeves for their artistic input. After finishing a handful of songs, she posted some tunes on MySpace and generated virtually no response for the first few months. To her astonishment, when she added the single "Bubbly" to the site, people latched on to the catchy hook. As word of mouth spread, her page pulled in a few thousand hits a day; after she had accumulated 6,240 friends, Rolling Stone highlighted her as one of the top female artists on MySpace. For four months, she was the number one unsigned artist, and garnered over 14 million plays. With such an appealing statistic on her résumé, record labels began courting her and she signed to Universal Republic, as her number of online friends surpassed the 100,000 mark. In July of 2007, her label released Coco. ~ Jason Lymangrover, All Music GuideMore

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Colbie Caillat
A great song, says Colbie Caillat, should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. Tak...
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Most Popular Music Videos (4)

Bubbly
(Duration: 3:14)
Jul 15th, 6:01am
Colbie Caillat, "Fallin' For You"
(Duration: 4:01)
Jul 18th, 7:50am
The Little Things
(Duration: 3:48)
Aug 12th, 7:34am
Realize
(Duration: 4:03)
Jul 15th, 5:50am
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Fan Comments

Nov 29th, 2:21am
I love your music and i think that you are awsome!!!
Nov 22nd, 7:49pm
my brother gots this in his phone
Nov 12th, 2:13pm
hey thanks so much for friending me! i love your music, especially fallin for you, realize, and bubbly. i think you are extremely talented and i hope you continue to make more great music!
Nov 11th, 7:42pm
i luv ur songs colbie, keep on rockin'
Nov 11th, 5:24pm
Love your music. Great voice, great songs. Keep up the wonderfulness.
Nov 11th, 4:27pm Last edited Nov 11th, 4:28pm.
this artists' music is both very emotional and uplifting, with obvious creativity- in both singing and guitar. her success and popularity have just begun to reach the heights it will go.and her creativity is something to look forward to.....)))))what a talented young woman is Colbie.
Nov 11th, 1:11pm
What a great song! greetings and kisses from Venezuela.Winston C
Nov 11th, 3:46am
every song of colbie immediately becumes one of my favourites...i juss cant help it..she has that unique crispy voice which makes me listen all of her songs....keep it up!!!...
Nov 11th, 2:51am
It's a delight listening to your featured song, you can't not like it, just like your voice.
You are beatiful. This is just the 3rd song i've heard so far... now, i am yours, oopss, i am your fan ;)