Meghan Elizabeth Trainor (born December 22, 1993) is an American singer and songwriter. The Trainor job has been recognized with several awards and nominations, including Grammy Award, Music Break Association Breakthrough Music of the Year award and two Billboard Music Awards.
Trainor was interested in music from a young age, and wrote, recorded, produced and produced three independently released albums between the ages of 15 and 17. In 2011, she signed a publishing deal with Big Yellow Dog Music, and pursued a career in songwriting. After signing a recording contract with Epic Records in 2014, Trainor rose to fame with the release of his major-label debut studio album, Title (2015). The album debuted at number one on US Billboard 200, sold over one million copies domestically, and produced three top 10 singles: "All About That Bass", "Lips Are Movin" and "Like I'll Lose You ".
In 2016, Trainor won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. The second major release Thank You was released in 2016, preceded by a lead single "No" which reached number 3 on Billboard Hot 100. In 2017, Trainor released the single "I ' m a Lady ", which appears in the animated film Smurfs: The Lost Village.
Influenced prominently by the 1950s and 1960s in music, Trainor music has been renowned for its aesthetic retro style. Common themes in the lyrics include modern female subjects, body image, and empowerment.
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Meghan Elizabeth Trainor was born on December 22, 1993 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, daughter of Kelly Anne "Kelli" (Jekanowski) and Gary Trainor, both jewelers. Trainor has an older brother named Ryan, and a younger brother named Justin. Trainor started singing at the age of six, initially singing with his father in church. He began writing music at the age of 11, beginning with his own arrangement of the song "Heart and Soul" (1938). Trainor connects early in his career by being born into a musical family. The trainer's father is a music teacher and musician, and plays organ in the Methodist church. His great-great uncle, Bob LaPalm, was in the previous band with Al Anderson of the NRBQ rock band, and Trainor's aunt and uncle Trinidadian, Lisa and Burton Toney, were soca and songwriters.
At the age of 11, Trainor told his father that he wanted to be a recording artist and started writing songs, recording them using GarageBand from his MacBook. "He does a lot with ears", her mother reminded. His father encouraged him to explore various musical genres. At the age of 12, Trainor began performing as part of Island Fusion, a "multi-purpose band" featuring cover, soca music, and Trainor compositions. The band includes his aunt, his younger brother, and his father. Trainor plays piano, guitar, and bongo drum, and sings with the band for four years. At the age of 13, Trainor has written his first original song, "Give Me a Chance". When he was in the eighth grade, the family left Nantucket. They moved temporarily to Orleans, Massachusetts before moving to North Eastham, Massachusetts, where children attended Nauset Regional High School. At Nauset Regional High, Trainor studied the guitar and became a replacement cheerleader. In addition, Trainor sang and played trumpet in a jazz band for three years.
When he was a teenager, Trainor's parents encouraged him to attend the songwriting conventions, and they took him to places where production companies were looking for new artists and songwriters. At the age of 15, he took guitar lessons from former NRBQ band member Johnny Spampinato. During this time, Trainor used Logic Studio to record and produce his compositions, and then work independently of a home studio his parents built for him.
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Careers
2009-2013: Beginning
Between the ages of 15 and 17, Trainor independently released three albums of material he wrote, recorded and performed on his own. Her debut album, Meghan Trainor , was released on December 25, 2009, receiving broadcasts from local radio station WCIB. Trainors enrolled in the Summer Performance Program at Berklee College of Music during the summer of 2009 and 2010, reached the final of the program's songwriting competition. Trainor released "Take Care of Our Soldiers" on April 16, 2010, a charity to support American troops abroad. In 2011, Trainor released two acoustic albums, I Sing with You and Just 17 . During this time, he received an award for Best Female Artist at the 2009 Acoustic International Music Awards, and Prize at the 2010 New Orleans Songwriter Festival, Tennessee Song Concert 2011 and John Lennon Love Song Songwriting Contest.
At a music conference in Colorado, Trainor was introduced to former NRBQ member Al Anderson. Impressed by Trainor's songwriting skills, Anderson referred Trainor to his publisher, Carla Wallace in Big Yellow Dog Music, urging Wallace to sign the Trainor. At this time, Trainor was offered a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music; However, Trainor decided to leave college to pursue a career in songwriting. Wallace offered Trainor a publishing deal with Nashville-based Big Nashville Music, which was signed by Trainor at the age of 17. She started her career as a song-to-hire writer partly because of her ability to write in a number of genre styles. He was interested in song publishing, not sure himself as a recording artist. "He thinks he is one of the fat girls who will never be an artist," recalled his father. Trainor graduated from Nauset Regional High School in 2012. Her second single, "Who I Want to Be", was released on April 24, 2012.
Throughout 2013, Trainor travels to Nashville, New York City, and Los Angeles, where he will write and help produce country and pop music. He will also sing lead vocals and backgrounds for other artist demos, with his vocals occasionally making the final cut. He then got the first song royalty by writing for artists from Italy and Denmark. In June 2013, Trainor meets producer Kevin Kadish in Nashville through references from Wallace and a mutual friend. Kadish and Trainor shared love with retro-style music and began recording together that month. Trainor later became frustrated by leaving for Los Angeles for a songwriting session. Her parents did not want her to move, explaining moving there because it was expensive. In November 2013, Trainor decided to move to Nashville. There, he wrote songs for a number of actions, including Hunter Hayes, Rascal Flatts, R5, and Sabrina Carpenter.
2014-2015: Title
Kadish and Trainor wrote "All About That Bass" in 2013. After numerous record labels refused to have their artist record a song, Trainor recorded the song himself in September of that year, and did so on the ukulele for LA Reid's Epic Records chairman in February. 2014, which immediately led to him signing an agreement with the label. Trainor hired Troy Carter as his manager. "All About That Bass" was released on June 30, 2014, and the music video became a viral hit. "All About That Bass" reached number one in 58 countries and became one of the best-selling singles of all time, with worldwide sales of 11 million units as of December 2014.
"All About That Bass" started the extended debut of Trainor (EP), Title , released on September 9, 2014. It consisted entirely of Trainor and Kadish, and reached the top position at number 15 on Billboard 200 and number 17 in the Canada Albums Song Stamp. Trainor released their second single, "Lips Are Movin" on October 21, 2014. The song's music video was commissioned by Hewlett-Packard, which included Trainor as part of a promotional campaign for their HP Pavilion product. The single reached number four on Billboard Hot 100, making it the fifth female artist to follow up her chart-topping debut with the top 5 other singles. "Lips Are Movin" also reached the top 10 in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In November 2014, he appeared as a guest mentor during the seventh season of the American series The Voice . Trainor is listed as the fourth most Trending Music Artist of the Year in Google Search for 2014. Billboard placed her as the fourth Top New Artist of the year, and placed her 12th on their own 21 Under 21 2014 list.
Sony Music Entertainment requested that the current Trainor publisher, Big Yellow Dog Music, withdraw three Trainor's self-release albums from circulation in preparation for its major label debut, Title . As a result, Title is recognized as Trainor's debut studio album. Acting as a substitute for his long EP of the same name, and released on January 9, 2015. The album debuted on top of US Billboard 200, making it the 13th female artist to debut song and album album On March 3rd, Trainor released their third single from an album called "Dear Future Husband", which finally peaked in Hot Top 20. Trainor featured in Charlie Puth's first single "Marvin Gaye" which was released also in March 2015. The next single , "Like I'm Gonna Lose You" featuring John Legend, being number one on the Australian Singles Chart and top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The first concert tour for the main concert, The Bass Tour , starting on February 11, 2015, with the Australian band Sheppard as the opening act. The album will be promoted further through MTrain Tour, with Charlie Puth and Life of Dillon as an opening act. It will start on Friday, July 3, 2015. However, around that time or shortly thereafter, in July 2015 (an online article does not specify a certain time) he was diagnosed with vowel sound bleeding - potentially serious but rather a common event among the singers , and was ordered by his medical team to undergo a complete vocal break, meaning the cancellation or long delay of at least the first two dates on MTrain Tour: the performance of Friday 3 July 2015 at Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Saturday the following night, July Four (Independence Day ), at Mohegan Sun, in Uncasville, Connecticut. On August 11, 2015, Trainor announced via social media that he canceled the rest of his northern US tour due to further vocal cord bleeding and would seek operations "to finally fix this once and for all." On July 28, 2015, it was announced that Trainor was writing the song for The Peanuts Movie soundtrack, titled "Better When I'm Dancin", which he would sung. "Better When I'm Dancin '", released with an accompanying music video, is also featured on Just Dance 2016 ' the new subscription platform, Just Dance Unlimited In August 2015, Trainor co-wrote Rascal Flatts single "I Like the Sound of That". On October 30, 2015, Trainor appeared on Undateable as a music guest. He also made a cameo appearance as a customer named Meghan. By the end of 2015, American singer Who Is Fancy released the single "Boys Like You", featuring Trainor and Ariana Grande. The title is the ninth best-selling album of 2015 worldwide, with 1.8 million copies sold according to IFPI.
2016-2017: Thank You
Trainor reveals to E! Online on January 7, 2016, that he's almost done his album Thank You . Trainor told MTV that the album was influenced by Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, and Bruno Mars, and featured collaborations between him and R. City. The album's first single, titled "No", was produced by Ricky Reed and released on March 4, 2016, shortly after Trainor won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. The main single peaked at number 3 on US Billboard Hot 100. Shortly after "No" was released, Trainor released four promotional singles, "Watch Me Do", "I Love Me", "Better" ( Featuring Yo Gotti), and "Mom" featuring his mother Kelli Trainor. The second single from the album, titled "Me Too", was released on May 5, 2016. The accompanying video was released on May 9, 2016, but was later removed that day due to unapproved digital manipulation of Trainor's body. It was corrected to an unedited version and re-released the next day. Thanks was released exclusively on Apple Music on May 6, 2016, and saw the standard commercial release on May 13, 2016. In July 2016, Trainor started The Untouchable Tour, to support the album, with Hailee Steinfeld and Common Kings as the opening act. On February 24, 2017, she released her single "I'm a Lady" for Smurfs: The Lost Village . In December 2017, he was revealed to be one of the judges on Fox's new television show The Four.
2018: Treat Myself
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Trainor stated that the major label's major studio album had been completed, adding that "it was really special, my whole family singing on every song and Daryl singing in every song. I played piano and organ on one song. "The main single," No Excuses ", was released in March 2018 with" Let You Be Right "and followed two months later. Album entitled Treat Myself , will be released on August 31, 2018. After announcing the album, Trainor distributed the fourth single, "All the Ways".
Arts
Influences
Growing up, Trainor was introduced to 1950's music, doo-wop, jazz, and James Brown's works by his father. Trainors grew up around soca and other Caribbean styles. He praised the music of the 1950s, soca, and Frank Sinatra for influencing his hip-hop, pop music mix. As a songwriter, he is influenced by songs performed by Sinatra. "Nobody writes like that again, because it's hard", he said. He was inspired by Stevie Wonder and Phil Collins, and has named the 1999 Tarzan soundtrack - where Collins features - as his favorite album during his youth. He also cites Bruno Mars as one of his greatest influences. Other artists he received as influences were Christina Aguilera, the Andrews Sisters, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, The Chordettes, Ray Charles, Earth, Wind & amp; Fire, Britney Spears, Child Destiny, NSYNC, Ariana Grande, Jason Mraz, T-Pain and Beyoncà ©  ©.
Music styles and themes
Trainor is identified as a singer-songwriter. The voice is predominantly characterized as "Neo-Retro", a "mix-mash" of R & amp; B, pop, doo-wop and blue-eyed soul. The debut EP Trainor Title consists of a reversed-style sound, and 1950s doo wop songs that straddle the line between R & amp; Modern B and pop melodies. His work is reminiscent of the famous composer Brill building, such as Goffin-King, Greenwich-Barry, etc.; comparisons with American singers-songwriters Neil Sedaka, Jenny Lewis, Neko Case and 1960s singers such as Connie Francis, Brenda Lee, Betty Everett, Lesley Gore, and Eydie Gormà ©  ©. Trainors play a variety of musical instruments: bass, guitar, ukulele, keyboard, trumpet, percussion, and piano. He feels the melody of the song is more important than the lyrics. She composes in various genres, including country, hip hop, reggae and soca, but prefers doo-wop and reggae.
Vocal trainers have been described as "soulful" and "highly resonant", and "a reedy cross" between Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. Chris DeVille of Stereogum argues that he is "a very capable singer", and adds that Trainor "projects many characters and emotions in a relatively limited range". While singing, Trainor uses a South American dialect. The harmony in his music has been likened to the girl group of the 1960s. The lyrics of trainers are recognized to reflect on the fetus of the 21st century. He said that he aims to "break the chain" from the "absurd standards of thinness" promoted by the beauty industry with the lyrics.
Public image
In 2014, Rolling Stone is considered Trainor of the year "Most Unlikely Pop Star". While promoting her first album, she is renowned for being an inspiration to youths struggling with body image and bullying. The Guardian calls him "poster girl for bigger woman" and "pop symbol for self-acceptance", while the Fashion Times writes that Trainor "inspires many women to embrace their curves". The online magazine, however, has described Trainor as an anti-feminist suggesting he seek self-esteem based on male opinion, but in an interview in 2016, Trainor clarified that he considered himself a feminist after learning more about it. Fanbase trainers are collectively identified as Megatrons. In March 2015, Trainor partnered with the FullBeauty Brand to relaunch their website fullbeauty.com, and to help create clothing for women of various body types.
Personal life
In July 2016, Trainor began dating actor Daryl Sabara. They got engaged on December 22, 2017, 24th birthday Trainor. In March 2018, the singer opened up about his fight with depression and anxiety. He said, "I thought, My God, will it end for me forever? I fall into a depressed hole and an insane insane."
Awards and nominations
During his career, Trainor has won three ASCAP Pop Music Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, People's Choice Awards, and received one Grammy Award. She was named "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" by the Music Business Association in 2014. Among her achievements, Trainor became the 21st woman to land her first single on the top of Billboard Hot 100, and the fifth female artist to following up his debut single on chart-topping with 5 other top releases. On the Billboard Year End chart for 2015, Trainor is listed seventh in Top Artists and second on Top Female Artists.
Discography
- Title (2015)
- Thank You (2016)
- Treat Myself (2018)
Tour
- The Bass Tour (2015)
- MTrain Tour (2015)
- The Untouchable Tour (2016)
See also
- List of artists number one on Billboard Artist 100
References
External links
- Official website
- Meghan Trainor at AllMusic
- Meghan Trainor Discography at Discogs
- Meghan Trainor on IMDb
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