According to NPR's Audie Cornish, Miguel "broke through to a national audience in 2012" with both "Adorn" and Kaleidoscope Dream. By September, the single had sold 190,000 copies. It was Miguel's second number-one single on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and his highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 17. The album's lead single "Adorn", which had been released on August 7, became a sleeper hit on urban radio. In February 2013, he released a politically driven video for the song "Candles in the Sun". As of February 2013, Kaleidoscope Dream has sold 322,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, selling 71,000 copies in its first week. His second studio album, Kaleidoscope Dream, was released on October 2, 2012, to critical acclaim. 2012–2013: Label change and second album Īfter Jive was shut down and absorbed by RCA Records, Miguel was moved to RCA, where Pitts was named president of urban music, and received a new marketing team. It ultimately spent 45 weeks on the chart, and sold 404,000 copies in the US. Its following two singles, " Sure Thing" and " Quickie", performed well on the charts, After falling off the chart for three weeks, All I Want Is You became a sleeper hit, as it re-entered the Billboard 200 and climbed the chart for 22 weeks, before peaking at number 37 on May 14, 2011. The album's title track attained radio airplay, while Miguel toured as a supporting act for Trey Songz and Usher.
It initially performed poorly, debuting at number 109 on the Billboard 200 on 11,000 copies sold, and was underpromoted by Jive, amid the label's dissolution.
Īfter his protracted contract dispute with Black Ice was settled, All I Want Is You was released in November 2010. Miguel also released Mischief: The Mixtape he explained that the title referred to his attempt to " people that there is an alternative to getting sort of the same thing". Raymond, as well as Asher Roth's Asleep in the Bread Aisle and Musiq Soulchild's " IfULeave". įor the following three years, he contributed to Usher's Here I Stand and Raymond v. In 2007, Miguel also contributed vocals to three tracks on the debut collaborative project of Blu and Exile, Below the Heavens, appearing under the moniker "Miguel Jontel". Consequently, his album was not released for two years. After being signed, he recorded his debut album All I Want Is You, but was sued by Black Ice for breach of contract. Miguel recalled that the signing of his contract took place in a "very small room in a very small office in a small corner of the building at Jive". The following month, Miguel signed a recording contract with Jive Records. record that no one was ever supposed to hear"-Pitts scheduled a meeting with Miguel in October 2007. But that's not what my lifestyle was.įor nearly a year, Miguel's manager at the time submitted several songs to music mogul Mark Pitts after receiving a song titled "Sure Thing"-which Miguel described as a "highly personal. They marketed me like the typical R&B artist, which I can't really blame them for, because that's what they know. I left the marketing of my album and me as an artist up to the discretion of the label. That album was a huge learning experience. Miguel is also close high school friends with rapper Blu, who also lived in San Pedro. In eleventh grade, Miguel was introduced by a friend to a member of the production company Drop Squad, and he subsequently spent the rest of high school learning his way around a recording studio before seeking a record deal. At a young age, Miguel was introduced to the older R&B his mother listened to, and his father's musical tastes, including funk, hip hop, jazz and classic rock. Miguel's parents divorced when he was eight years old.
He is one of two sons of an African American mother and a Mexican American father. Miguel Jontel Pimentel was born on October 23, 1985, and raised in San Pedro, California. Miguel incorporates R&B, funk, hip hop, pop, rock and electronic styles into his music, and has been compared to vocalists Babyface and Prince. His fourth studio album, War & Leisure, was released in 2017 to further acclaim. In June 2015, Miguel released his third album, Wildheart, which also received critical acclaim. Īfter Jive's dissolution in 2011, he moved to RCA Records and released his second studio album, Kaleidoscope Dream, in 2012 to critical acclaim. Although it was underpromoted upon its release, the album became a sleeper hit and helped Miguel garner commercial standing.
After signing to Jive Records in 2007, Miguel released his debut studio album, All I Want Is You, in November 2010. Raised in San Pedro, California, he began pursuing a music career at age thirteen. Miguel Jontel Pimentel (born October 23, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor.
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