Colby O'Donis

Colby O'Donis was born in 1989 in New York to a family of immigrants from Puerto Rico. At the age of three, he won a children's competition by singing a song by Michael Jackson. When Colby was 8 years old, his parents moved to Florida, where the young man began working with the producer Full Force (this man produced the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and N'Sync). At 10 years old, Colby became the youngest artist ever to be signed to Motown Records - a contract was signed to record the song "Mouse in the House" for the soundtrack to the cartoon "Stuart Little". Soon Colby begins taking guitar lessons from Johan Oiested, musician Carlos Santana. Less than a couple of years later, the prodigy has already opened performances by famous artists; and when Colby turned 15, the parents thought that their son could already become the main earner in the family - they specially moved to Los Angeles so that Colby could sign a lucrative contract for recording an album (by that time the catalog of songs performed by the boy, totaled more than 100 numbers). Colby signed to Genuine Music Group. Of course, the creativity of the young talent needed to be improved, and a whole team of star r & b-producers, including Justin Timberlake, was involved in this. In 2008, the first album, succinctly titled "Colby O", hit the American shelves, and at the Grammy Awards of the same year, Colby O'Donis was nominated for Best Dance Recording with Lady GaGa. "for the song" Just Dance ".