I think we all know Owl City. I've talked about him before and Fireflies was kind of a phenomenon for my generation, but a quickie overview is that it's Adam Young, whose been active as Owl City since 2007 and has released six albums since. Aloe Blacc is Egbert Dawkins the Third, which is amazing, and has been active since 1995. He first started with music by playing a broken trumpet, but when it was fixed he realized he'd have to take it seriously. Then he found hip hop music. He formed Emanon (no name backwards) with another guy and became a breakout indie rap underground group, with six releases between 1996 and 2002. During this time he also toured with a French jazz group called Jazz Liberatorz. He went solo in 2003, releasing two EP's before getting signed to a label in 2006. He released an album that year after getting into the songwriting more, having been unhappy with the ego centered lyrics of the genre thus far. It got huge recognition from all over. In 2009 he was working on his next album, but also toured with Emanon and collaborated on another project. His album came out in 2010, and became even bigger than the first, then he contributed to another album where the proceeds were being donating to the AIDS health movement. In 2012 he joined a music project called Roseaux, released an album with them, spent 2013 co-writing with Avicii and switching labels before releasing an EP. Since then he's kind of been popping up at random for performances and features on songs, like this one which came out in 2015. I guess now we'll see where he turns up next.
Peace.
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