Sarah Hudson (singer)
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Sarah Hudson is an American
pop
singer-songwriter
, and creator of the club-pop music project Ultraviolet Sound. She is the daughter of record producer
and 1970s television personality-pop
singer Mark Hudson.
and 1970s television personality-pop
singer Mark Hudson (of the Hudson Brothers
), and established Europe
an dancer, Wendy Gotelee. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California
, Hudson grew up doing dance and musical theater. As a teenager Hudson did extensive guest and background vocal work for many established pop artists and began writing her own songs at the age of 18. Hudson has trained professionally from the age of 3 under voice instructors Mary Drummond, Elisabeth Howard and Dena Murray.
, folded before her debut album, Naked Truth (2005), was officially released. Collaborators include Desmond Child
, Eric Bazilian
, Billy Mann, Ozzy Osbourne
and Aerosmith
vocalist Steven Tyler
. Hudson has been featured in Interview
, Women's Wear Daily
, YM
, Seventeen
, Teen Vogue
and Elle
.
Among UVS's highlights for 2008 were being on tour for most of the year, a show in Toronto at Circa with the DJ superstars SebastiAn and Kavinksy, a 35-city tour with Atlanta-based crunk-rockers Family Force 5
, a show in Vegas with Lady GaGa
, a SXSW performance on a bill with Robyn
, N.E.R.D, Dragonette
, Katy Perry
and other top artists, multiple posts from celebrity blogger and tastemaker Perez Hilton
, hearing their cover of "Two of Hearts" in rotation on the top dance station in Seattle, WA and more. Ultraviolet Sound took their music international in March 2009 with a 20-date U.K. tour which included stops in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Brighton and Nottingham.
UVS released their new album worldwide on April 12, 2011. They recently added 3 preview songs from their latest album "Fuck'd Up" featuring Izza Kizza "Electric Misfit Love Machine" and "La La Love" on their MySpace page.
On July 28 they streamed their first single "Suck My Kiss" on their MySpace page. On September 14, 2010 their first single "Suck My Kiss" was released digitally on iTunes along with three remixes.
, during a challenge where the contestants had to design a rocker fashion with which she would portray her image. She was touted as an "up and coming rock star".
. Her godmother is Goldie Hawn
to whom her uncle Bill Hudson was previously married. She is a first cousin of Kate Hudson
and Oliver Hudson
.
Hudson currently divides her time between New York City
and Los Angeles
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
, and creator of the club-pop music project Ultraviolet Sound. She is the daughter of record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
and 1970s television personality-pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer Mark Hudson.
Early life
Sarah Hudson was born to parents, record producerRecord producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
and 1970s television personality-pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer Mark Hudson (of the Hudson Brothers
Hudson Brothers
The Hudson Brothers are an American music group formed in Portland, Oregon in the 1970s and consisting of Bill Hudson, Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson...
), and established Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an dancer, Wendy Gotelee. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, Hudson grew up doing dance and musical theater. As a teenager Hudson did extensive guest and background vocal work for many established pop artists and began writing her own songs at the age of 18. Hudson has trained professionally from the age of 3 under voice instructors Mary Drummond, Elisabeth Howard and Dena Murray.
2005-2006: Debut album
Hudson's previous record label, S-Curve RecordsS-Curve Records
S-Curve Records was founded in 2000 by former Mercury Records executive Steve Greenberg. It is based in New York City. In 2001 the label established a distribution and licensing agreement with EMI Records. In 2007 Greenberg relaunched the label after a two year hiatus, during which he served as...
, folded before her debut album, Naked Truth (2005), was officially released. Collaborators include Desmond Child
Desmond Child
Desmond Child is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.-Career:...
, Eric Bazilian
Eric Bazilian
Eric M. Bazilian , is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer, best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters.-Early life:...
, Billy Mann, Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
and Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
vocalist Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the frontman and lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'", due to his high screams...
. Hudson has been featured in Interview
Interview (magazine)
Interview is an American magazine which has the nickname The Crystal Ball Of Pop. It was founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol. The magazine features intimate conversations between some of the world's biggest celebrities, artists, musicians, and creative thinkers...
, Women's Wear Daily
Women's Wear Daily
Women's Wear Daily is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called "the bible of fashion." WWD delivers information and intelligence on changing trends and breaking news in the fashion, beauty and retail industries with a readership composed largely of retailers, designers, manufacturers,...
, YM
YM (magazine)
YM was an American teen magazine that began in 1932. It was published for 72 years and was the second-oldest girls' magazine in the United States...
, Seventeen
Seventeen (magazine)
Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...
, Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue magazine began as a version of Vogue magazine for teenage girls. This US magazine focuses on fashion and celebrities and offers information about the latest entertainment and feature stories on current issues and events.- Description :...
and Elle
Elle (magazine)
Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
.
Recent work
Work began in late 2007 on Hudson's new "club pop" music project under the name Ultraviolet Sound. The group, also known as UVS, released their first full length record, O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Dancing), in April 2008 independently. The band secured sponsorship of O.C.D from Adidas Originals and garnered a total of 135,000 downloads.Among UVS's highlights for 2008 were being on tour for most of the year, a show in Toronto at Circa with the DJ superstars SebastiAn and Kavinksy, a 35-city tour with Atlanta-based crunk-rockers Family Force 5
Family Force 5
Family Force 5 is a Christian crunk rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. They consist of Solomon "Soul Glow Activatur" Olds, Jacob "Crouton" Olds, Joshua "Fatty" Olds, Nathan "Nadaddy" Currin, and Derek "Chap Stique" Mount...
, a show in Vegas with Lady GaGa
Lady GaGa
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...
, a SXSW performance on a bill with Robyn
Robyn
Robin Miriam Carlsson , better known by her stage name Robyn, is a Swedish recording artist, singer, and songwriter. Robyn became known in the late nineties for her worldwide dance-pop hit "Do You Know " from her debut album Robyn Is Here . She co-wrote the song "Du gör mig hel igen" for...
, N.E.R.D, Dragonette
Dragonette
Dragonette is a Canadian electropop group active since 2005. Dragonette consists of singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz and drummer Joel Stouffer....
, Katy Perry
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...
and other top artists, multiple posts from celebrity blogger and tastemaker Perez Hilton
Perez Hilton
Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. , better known as Perez Hilton , is an American blogger and television personality. His blog, Perezhilton.com , is known for posts covering gossip items about celebrities...
, hearing their cover of "Two of Hearts" in rotation on the top dance station in Seattle, WA and more. Ultraviolet Sound took their music international in March 2009 with a 20-date U.K. tour which included stops in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Brighton and Nottingham.
UVS released their new album worldwide on April 12, 2011. They recently added 3 preview songs from their latest album "Fuck'd Up" featuring Izza Kizza "Electric Misfit Love Machine" and "La La Love" on their MySpace page.
On July 28 they streamed their first single "Suck My Kiss" on their MySpace page. On September 14, 2010 their first single "Suck My Kiss" was released digitally on iTunes along with three remixes.
Television career
Hudson was featured on Frontline in its report "The Way The Music Died." She has also appeared on a Season 1 episode of Project RunwayProject Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
, during a challenge where the contestants had to design a rocker fashion with which she would portray her image. She was touted as an "up and coming rock star".
Personal life
Her godfather is Steven TylerSteven Tyler
Steven Tyler is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the frontman and lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'", due to his high screams...
. Her godmother is Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969...
to whom her uncle Bill Hudson was previously married. She is a first cousin of Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson
Kate Garry Hudson is an American actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after winning a Golden Globe and receiving several nominations, including a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Almost Famous. She then starred in the hit film How to Lose a Guy in 10...
and Oliver Hudson
Oliver Hudson
Oliver Rutledge Hudson is an American actor. He is the son of Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, and brother of Kate Hudson...
.
Hudson currently divides her time between New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
and Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
.
Albums
- 2005: Naked Truth
- 2008: O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Dancing) under Ultraviolet Sound
- 2011: Ultraviolet Sound under Ultraviolet Sound
Music videos
| Year | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | "Girl On The Verge" | Naked Truth Naked Truth Naked Truth is the debut Album by American singer Sarah Hudson, released in 2005 .Track #6, "Unlove You", was covered by Ashley Tisdale on her 2007 debut album "Headstrong".-Track listing:... |
| "Gimme My Electro" | Fast, Cheap and Out of Control | |
| 2008 | "O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Dancing)" | O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Dancing) |
| 2010 | "Suck My Kiss" | Ultraviolet Sound |
| 2011 | "Video Megamix" | |
| "Girl Talk" |