T. Mills
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Travis Tatum Mills better known by his stage-name T. Mills, is an American hip hop artist based in Riverside, California
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Travis began his career writing music in his bedroom, about the love of his life, a girl named Kristen from Brooklyn, New York; using software such as Pro Tools
, Logic
and Reason to create backing tracks for his songs. Mills quickly gained attention self-releasing music online, leading to a spot on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour
performing on the Babycakes stage. After several notable live performances, T. Mills was signed to the Laguna Beach label Uprising Records
, who released the Finders Keepers EP on July 14, 2009 and his debut album Ready, Fire, Aim! on September 28, 2010. Preceding the release of the album, the video for the lead single "Stupid Boy", which was produced by Khris Lorenz, premiered on MySpace on July 13, 2010. Mills' second album, Leaving Home, was released July, 22, 2011. The album was released for free under Columbia Records
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Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
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Travis began his career writing music in his bedroom, about the love of his life, a girl named Kristen from Brooklyn, New York; using software such as Pro Tools
Pro Tools
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation platform for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, developed and manufactured by Avid Technology. It is widely used by professionals throughout the audio industries for recording and editing in music production, film scoring, film, and television...
, Logic
Logic Pro
Logic Pro is a hybrid 32 / 64 bit digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software application for the Mac OS X platform. Originally created by German software developer Emagic, Logic Pro became an Apple product when Apple bought Emagic in 2002...
and Reason to create backing tracks for his songs. Mills quickly gained attention self-releasing music online, leading to a spot on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour
Warped Tour 2009
Warped Tour 2009 was the 15th installment of the annual Summer Warped Tour festival. Vans Shoes was again the tour's primary sponsor. Tour founder/organizer Kevin Lyman announced that this year's tour would feature only one main stage with bands playing 40 minutes each instead of two main stages...
performing on the Babycakes stage. After several notable live performances, T. Mills was signed to the Laguna Beach label Uprising Records
Uprising Records
Uprising Records is a record label founded in 1994 by Sean Muttaqi - having released records by Fall Out Boy, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Cipher, Red Knife Lottery, Underminded, Amir Sulaiman, iCON the Mic King, The Crest and more...
, who released the Finders Keepers EP on July 14, 2009 and his debut album Ready, Fire, Aim! on September 28, 2010. Preceding the release of the album, the video for the lead single "Stupid Boy", which was produced by Khris Lorenz, premiered on MySpace on July 13, 2010. Mills' second album, Leaving Home, was released July, 22, 2011. The album was released for free under Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
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EPs
- The Finders Keepers EP (2009), Uprising RecordsUprising RecordsUprising Records is a record label founded in 1994 by Sean Muttaqi - having released records by Fall Out Boy, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Cipher, Red Knife Lottery, Underminded, Amir Sulaiman, iCON the Mic King, The Crest and more...
- Leaving Home EP (2012), Columbia RecordsColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
Albums
- Ready, Fire, Aim! (2010), Uprising Records
- Leaving Home (2011), Columbia Records
Singles
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
USR&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
USRap | |||
| 2010 | "Stupid Boy" | — | — | — | Ready, Fire, Aim! |
| "She Got A..." | — | — | — | ||
| 2011 | "Vans On" | — | — | — | Leaving Home |
| "Hollywood" (featuring Colin Munroe Colin Munroe Colin Munroe is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer originally from North Gower, Ontario, who now resides in Toronto.-Biography:... ) |
— | — | — | ||
| "Can't Take Your Eyes Off Me" | — | — | — | ||
External links
- Official website of T. Mills
- T. Mills on MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- T. Mills Biography on the Uprising RecordsUprising RecordsUprising Records is a record label founded in 1994 by Sean Muttaqi - having released records by Fall Out Boy, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Cipher, Red Knife Lottery, Underminded, Amir Sulaiman, iCON the Mic King, The Crest and more...
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