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Keidran Jones (born 15 April 1987), better known by his stage name Iyaz, is a British Virgin Islands singer-songwriter and dancer from Tortola, signed with the record label Beluga Heights Records. He is known for his singles "Replay", "Solo" and "Pretty Girls". He released his debut album ''Replay'' in 2010. == Life and career == Iyaz was born in 1987 to a musical family. He grew up in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.〔 Iyaz studied digital recording at New England Institute of Technology.〔David Caplan, ("5 Things to Know About Singer Iyaz" ), ''People'', 02/04/2010〕 "Island Girls" achieved radio success in the Caribbean.〔 Sean Kingston found Iyaz through his Myspace page in 2008 and later signed him to a recording contract with Time Is Money/Beluga Heights. Michael Nguyen introduced him to producer and Beluga Heights head J.R. Rotem. He released "Replay" in 2010, which peaked at #2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and at #1 in many other territories, including the United Kingdom. His second single "Solo" was released in February 2010, and peaked at #32 on the Hot 100. He also took part in recording the Haiti charity single, "We Are the World 25 for Haiti". His debut album, ''Replay'' was released in 2010, and he was also featured on Charice's single "Pyramid". In an interview with HitQuarters, Rotem described Iyaz's creative perfectionism:
Iyaz also appeared on the fourth season of ''Hannah Montana'', ''Hannah Montana Forever'' and made a song with Miley Cyrus called "Gonna Get This", which is featured on the ''Hannah Montana Forever'' soundtrack album. He is also featured in the upcoming film ''21 Coconuts''. Iyaz had a part in Big Time Rush's song "If I Ruled the World". Iyaz is now working on his second album which is titled "Aurora" but there is no release date to be confirmed. In 2011, Iyaz released "Last Forever" with David Guetta as the producer,〔http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/iyaz-last-forever-prod-by-david-guetta-song.313693.html〕 and its follow-up, "At Last". Iyaz was featured on New Boyz's single "Break My Bank" and Akon's "My Girl". In 2012, Iyaz did a duet called "You're My Only Shorty" with Demi Lovato, which is from her third studio album, ''Unbroken''. He released a song with Travie McCoy titled "Pretty Girls" and months later in the year he released "My Heart Broke". In 2013, Iyaz released another single, "Da Da Da", among with other songs; "Congrats", "What Is this Feeling" and "Too Sexy". In 2014, after leaving his previous labels the year prior, Iyaz signed with new Los Angeles based independent record label: Rekless Music, who is distributed by the Alternative Distribution Alliance and Warner Music Group. Iyaz made a new cover song of Chris Brown's Loyal named "Comin' For Ya", followed by another cover months after of Magic!'s song "Rude" which he shared on SoundCloud. Iyaz tweeted on Twitter in December he was releasing a brand new hit single, "One Million" and released a snippet of the song on SoundCloud. Iyaz released "One Million" on Itunes in Japan alone on 12 December 2014. On 24 July Iyaz released his new Single "Alive" featuring Nash Overstreet of Hot Chelle Rae, Produced by J.D. (Boy Rekless) Salbego the President/CEO of Rekless Music, Iyaz's new label, and Stuart Hart. On September 23, 2015, MTV exclusively premiered worldwide the official video to Iyaz's brand new hit single "Alive". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iyaz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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