小档案
姓 名:Meghan Trainor梅根·特瑞娜
国 籍:美国
星 座:摩羯座
出 生 地:美国马萨诸塞州
出生日期:1993-12-22
职 业:歌手
艺人资料
梅根·特瑞娜(Meghan Trainor),出生于1993年12月22日,是一位美国歌手,词曲作者和唱片制作人。代表作品有单曲《All About That Bass》等。梅根出生于马萨诸塞州的楠塔基特岛,父亲叫做Gary Trainor,母亲名为Kelli Trainor。她在音乐家庭中成长,从11岁起就开始写歌。而当她13岁时,父母送了她一台电脑,她便用电脑制作自己的歌曲。后来,家庭搬到了科德角,梅根和她的两个兄弟一起进入了瑙塞特高中。
早期
17岁时,梅根参加了杜兰戈州作曲家博览会,在那里她认识了NRBQ乐队的Al Anderson,而后者又将其介绍给了Big Yellow Dog Music的Carla Wallace。在她18岁生日后不久,还是高中生的她便作为词曲家与Big Yellow Dog Music签下了合约。
2011年
2011年2月4日,梅根发布了自己创作的独立专辑《I'll Sing With You》。她去各个城市边旅游边写歌,洛杉矶,加利福尼亚,纽约市,纽约,纳什维尔,都有她的足迹。19岁时,她在纳什维尔住了下来,和Rascal Flatts, Sabrina Carpenter等人一同创作。
同年9月14日,她发行了独立音乐碟《Only 17》。
2014年
在梅根的一次旅行中,她认识了曾被格莱美提名的制作人Kevin Kadish,并和他一起写歌。就是这时,大热的歌曲《All About That Bass》诞生了。这首歌的歌词讽刺了人们追求所谓身材的误区,告诉大家胖也是一种美。原本,许多歌手对演唱这首歌都抱有兴趣,但是当听过梅根自己唱的Demo之后,L.A. Reid决定将她签入Epic Records并让她自己演唱这一首歌。
很快,梅根的出道神曲《All About That Bass》一路爆红,迅速冲到了iTunes热度榜的第一名,在Billboard排行榜也取得了第一名的好成绩。
伴随着这首歌的巨大成功,梅根的第一张正式EP《Title》已于2014年9月9日发行。
2015年
2015年1月9日,发行首张录音室专辑《Title》,凭借首周十九万五千张的销量,登上公告牌两百强专辑榜冠军。2月,梅根出席第57届格莱美奖,在颁奖礼上她获得了年度制作、年度单曲两个提名。
2016年
2016年2月16日,凭借《Title》在第58届格莱美音乐奖获得最佳新人奖。
Early life
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor was born on December 22, 1993 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.Trainor began singing at age six, initially singing with her father at church.She began writing music at age 11, starting with her own arrangement of the song "Heart and Soul" (1938).Trainor attributes her early career progress to being born into a musical family.
At age 11, Trainor told her father that she wanted to become a recording artist and began writing songs, recording them using GarageBand from her MacBook.
At age 12, Trainor began performing as part of Island Fusion, an "all-purpose party band" which performed covers, soca music, and Trainor's compositions.
At age 15, she took guitar lessons from former NRBQ band member Johnny Spampinato.During this time, Trainor used Logic Studio to record and produce her compositions, and later worked independently from a home studio that her parents constructed for her.
Career beginnings
Between the ages of 15 and 17, Trainor independently released three albums of material she wrote, recorded and performed herself.Her eponymous debut album, Meghan Trainor, was released on December 25, 2009,receiving airplay from local radio station WCIB.Trainor enrolled in the Summer Performance Program at the Berklee College of Music during the summer of 2009 and 2010, reaching the finals of the program's songwriting competition.
At a music conference in Colorado,Trainor was introduced to former NRBQ member, Al Anderson.Impressed by Trainor's songwriting ability, Anderson referred Trainor to his publisher, Carla Wallace at Big Yellow Dog Music, urging Wallace to sign Trainor.
Trainor graduated from Nauset Regional High School in 2012.Her second single, "Who I Wanna Be", was released on April 24, 2012.
Throughout 2013, Trainor traveled to Nashville, New York and Los Angeles, where she would write and help produce country and pop music. She would also sing lead and background vocals for demos of other artists, with her vocals occasionally making the final cut. She later earned her first songwriting royalties by penning for artists from Italy and Denmark.
2014-2015 Breakthrough with Title
Sony Music Entertainment requested that Trainor's current publisher, Big Yellow Dog Music, pull Trainor's three self-released albums from circulation in the build-up to her major label debut, Title.As a result, Title is recognized as Trainor's debut studio album.It acts as a full-length replacement of her EP of the same name,and was released on January 9, 2015.The album debuted atop the U.S. Billboard 200,making her the 13th female artist with a debut number 1 song and album.
2016 Thank you
Trainor revealed to E! Online on January 7, 2016, that her second studio album, Thank You, was almost finished.Trainor told MTV that the album was influenced by Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, and Bruno Mars, and features a collaboration between herself and R. City.The album's first single, titled "No", was produced by Ricky Reed and released on March 4, 2016,not long after Trainor won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.