Iyaz

With inventive re-imaginings from the reggae-splashed hook-heavy soul popularized by acts like Sean Paul and Sean Kingston in the first half from the 21st century’s 1st decade, Virgin Islands-born singer Iyaz swiftly developed a hearty cult following on MySpace. Kingston, along the way of developing his own Period Is Cash label, discovered Iyaz’s site and purchased the 21-year-old vocalist as the maiden signee of his fresh imprint. Iyaz’s debut solitary, “Replay,” an iPod name-checking musical stew that added splashes of traditional and electronica to his typical isle pop, soared to number 2 around the Billboard Warm 100 in November 2009. The track, compiled by Iyaz and Jason Derulo, topped the U.K., Australian, and Swiss pop graphs and eventually proceeded to go platinum — many times more than — in the U.S. Follow-up solitary “Single” wasn’t almost as well-known — it reached number 3 in the U.K. and didn’t fare almost as well somewhere else — nonetheless it setup the June 2010 launch of Replay. After considerable touring and a big change of brands, Iyaz done his second recording, titled Aurora.