Van Hunt

R&B multi-instrumentalist Truck Hunt, given birth to and raised in Dayton, Ohio, was raised surrounded by the pimp way of living of his dad. A soundtrack of traditional soul and modern R&B was his backdrop and Hunt immersed himself within the shades and moods of everything. A move through the Midwest to Atlanta in his early twenties allowed Hunt to hone his audio. He’d been playing electric guitar and writing tracks since his teenagers, so naturally a profession in music was coming. Capitol inked him a offer in 2003 and his self-titled debut found its way to February 2004. Performances on Soul Teach, The Late Later Present with Craig Kilborn, and NPR coincided using the discharge of Truck Hunt’s double one “Dirt” and “Secs of Pleasure”; the record peaked within the very best 40 of Billboard’s R&B Albums graph. The solid follow-up, For the Jungle Flooring, was released in 2006 and topped the Heatseekers graph but didn’t leave a lot of an impression in any other case. Hunt after that shifted to Blue Take note; promotional copies of Popular, his first record for the label, had been mailed out, however the discharge was eventually shelved. Hunt eventually assembled Use in case there is Emergency, comprising materials from his vault, and provided it as a free of charge download for his supporters. In 2011, through his very own label, the Sony RED-distributed Godless Hotspot, Hunt released the striking What Had been You LONGING FOR?, his third correct officially released record. Some crowd-funding assistance facilitated The Fun Increases, The Fun Units, his fairly subdued fourth recording, released on Godless Hotspot 2015.