Happy Rhodes

Happy Rhodes (born Kimberley Tyler Rhodes on August 9, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and electronic musician with a four-octave vocal range.

Family

Born Kimberley Tyler Rhodes but called "Happy" since infancy, she legally changed her name to Happy Tyler Rhodes at age 16. Through her father, Vernon H. Rhodes Jr., Rhodes is a distant relative of Cecil Rhodes and her first name "Kimberley" is after the Kimberley diamond mines. Her middle name "Tyler" is after the American actress Mary Tyler Moore, who was a friend of Rhodes' mother, Susan D. Stamper, while both took dance classes at the New York City Ballet. Rhodes' maternal grandfather Dave Stamper wrote songs for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 through 1931 and composed the music for several other Broadway shows. A family legend claims that Stamper wrote the well-known song "Shine On, Harvest Moon" in 1903 for Nora Bayes when he was working as her Vaudeville piano accompanist, but sold the rights and credit to Bayes and her husband Jack Norworth. Rhodes' parents divorced when she was young. Rhodes has two brothers who are twins.

Find Me (Happy Rhodes album)

Find Me is Happy Rhodes most recent studio album, released October 19, 2007. Rhodes collaborated with artists who made contributions to the album, these include guitarist Bon Lozaga and bassist Hansford Rowe of Gongzilla, bassist Carl Adami, guitarists Teddy Kumpel and Jon Catler and pianist Rob Schwimmer.

Overview

Rhodes’ 11th studio album to be released, the songs were originally recorded in 2001 but due to the costs of mastering, the album was not released on public sale until October 2007. There are currently no singles released from the album and Rhodes had made no claims to be releasing one.

To assist with the costs of recording and producing the CD herself, Rhodes released a “sampler” disc to fans in 2005 which consisted of 8 tracks from the album. These discs were sold at Rhodes’ live performances in January 2005 at the Tin Angel, New York. The left over discs were sold on the Ecto mailing list, selling out quickly. The sampler album is no longer available.

Find Me

Find Me may refer to:

Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)

"Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" is a song by German electronic music duo Jam & Spoon featuring Plavka. The song reached number 6 in Italy and peaked at number 22 in the United Kingdom as well as in Australia.

Track listings

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References

Find Me (Christina Grimmie EP)

Find Me is the debut extended play (EP) by American artist and YouTube sensation Christina Grimmie. The album was released for digital download on June 14, 2011. Physical copies of the album are sold at Grimmie's tour appearances and shows.The album was released independently and debuted at number 35 on the Billboard 200 chart in the US. The album entered the top 10 of the Independent Albums in the US, debuting and peaking at number 6. The album also had success on the Billboard Digital Albums chart, debuting at number 11.

The album's lead single was "Advice", which was released for airplay on Radio Disney on June 11, 2011 and has peaked at number 3 at Radio Disney Top 30 Countdown. The song was met with a positive fan reception, receiving a 95% approval rate by Radio Disney listeners. On the strength of digital downloads, "Liar Liar", debuted at number 15 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers single chart.

Background

Recording and development

Grimmie began posting covers of songs on her official YouTube account [ zeldaxlove64] in the Summer of 2009 (July, 17). According to Grimmie, her friend persuaded her to post her videos on the popular video sharing website. After receiving positive feedback for her performance, Grimmie began to regularly upload videos of herself performing covers, usually entitled "Me singing ...". For example, she posted videos of herself performing covers of the Miley Cyrus hits Party in the U.S.A. and When I Look at You. Getting more popular on YouTube, Grimmie eventually got in contact with Kurt Hugo Schneider (through fellow YouTube musician Tiffany Alvord whom she recorded a duet with). Schneider and Grimmie then recorded a medley of Miley Cyrus songs that quickly became one of Christina's most-viewed videos. After watching this video, Selena Gomez's stepfather Brian Teefey contacted Grimmie to be her manager.