It got a great response and Mark Pitts, my A&R, was convinced that it should be a single and I was excited, but I was like, “Are you sure this could work?” He was like, “Man, that shit is going to kill.” And he was right. We put out the first one at the top of February of 2012, and “Adorn” was on that and it got quite a buzz. Make the whole thing a personal creative process from the artwork to the painting to the design to the production and writing-just for the people who discover music like I do online or my favorite blogs.
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In late 2011 I was like, “I’m going to put out a series of micro EPs.” I just knew I wanted to put out free music and make it very quality vs. You released those independently rather than through RCA just after the Jive merger. I didn’t sleep until the next day, which was awesome.Īll this success in the last 12 months means a lot to you, coming off how you began this whole process almost exactly one year ago with the Art Dealer Chic mixtapes. I had a suite, and I had all my friends over and family and we just partied. So then I stopped by Chris ’s party to see Mark Pitts-he signed both of us he’s like my mentor.
I’ve been to these parties for years, but this seemed like the special night. I stopped by the Sony party-had to do that to say thanks. So you win the award, have a great performance, Kelly Clarkson shouts you out in her speech. I did want it to be a stripped-down performance, and it really was genius of him to put us in the aisle. I got to tip my hat to Ken Ehrlich-he really had the vision. I wanted to make an intimate thing but I had a bigger vision about the crowd. When did you know that the performance was happening, and how did you arrange to start singing the song from the crowd?Ī week-and-a-half out we knew that we could perform. I had my girl with me and it was like, “How crazy is that? And I get to perform?” It was just a great feeling. I found out in the car as we were pulling up to the red carpet. Since the award wasn’t televised, where were you when you found out? “I’m on like cloud 12, man.”Ĭongrats on winning your first Grammy. It’s such an awesome opportunity and awesome time for that to happen,” he says. “The cool part is you want people to discover you. In the past 72 hours, Miguel had been approached by “a few artists I’m truly a fan of,” but no one he could confirm. The impact of Miguel’s Grammy moment was still taking shape when Billboard reached the 25-year-old singer at home in Los Angeles on Feb. 3 on the Billboard 200 and also one of three nominees in the inaugural best urban contemporary album category at this year’s Grammys.
His album, Kaleidoscope Dream, was a breakout hit when it was released last fall, debuting at No. She was talking about Miguel’s performance of “Adorn,” and clearly a lot of music fans felt the same way, as Miguel’s single achieved its best sales week ever on the strength of Sunday-night sales alone, rising to 44,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan, a surge of 229%. party photos from music’s biggest weekend.a minute-by-minute look at social activity during the telecast.a Q&A with Hunter Hayes and Ed Sheeran.Miguel Stars in Our Special Grammys Issue