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Royce Kirkland (Band)
Royce Kirkland (born May 5, 1993), is an American singer, songwriter, anti-fashionista, and multi-instrumentalist.[1] On March 05, 2009, Kirkland released his first digital album 2 Kool and the subsequent double Ep release 2 Kool 4 Hi Skool. Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 2007—2011: 2 Kool Era 2.2 2012—Present: Fated 2 Be Hated: The Rebel Rises 3 Discography 3.1 Extended plays 3.2 Singles 4 References 5 External links

[edit]Early life

Kirkland is of White, Creole, and Native American descent.[2] He got his start in Riverside, CA.[1] He moved back and forth from Riverside, CA and Nashville, TN since, Age 5. He did rap battles and played various instruments throughout his childhood. Royce grew up mostly alone and very troubled. He spent this time crafting his musical abilities. He moved to Nashville, TN permanantly at Age 10 to escape the gang violence in Los Angeles. "I admit i did get caught up in that lifestyle for a good amount of time". "All my cousins were doing it but i quickly realized it wasn't for me". At age 15, he started taking his music and abilities to the next level.[3] After Upstarting his own independent label with then partner AustinWhite!. He spent the next few years maintaining a MySpace profile where he uploaded various demos of self-written and self produced tracks. Shortly before his 16th birthday, he caught the attention of iheartcomix and was promptly signed after sending them a message through the social networking site. Afterwards, he spent the next few years producing and remixing for acts to the widespread disdain of others.[4] Royce is musically inspired by the likes of Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, old music, and "Underground acts you've never heard of".

[edit]Career

[edit]2007—2011: 2 Kool

After the release of "2Kool" and "I'd Hate Me 2" as the first singles from the album, it was announced through a press release the album would be released on January 11, 2009.[16] However, the album was postponed and an extended ep titled 2Kool was announced for release on February 22, 2009 by Planet Cool Records.[17] The release of the EP "2Kool4HiSkool" on December 1, 2008 predated the release of the album "2Kool".[18] The album was finally released March 05, 2009. After signing with iheartcomix Records in May 2009[9] Kirkland secretly did uncredited production work for many indie bands.[10] In June 2009, Kirkland took the blogosphere and myspace world by storm doing many interviews and radio shows.[11]He spent the next years completely cut off from his prior presence. Doing countless unofficial projects and releases. At the same time, he began to write and record material for his second album with himself doing one-hundred percent of the work by himself as before.

[edit]2012—Present: Fated To Be Hated: The Rebel Rises

In October 2011, Kirkland announced on a indie DJ show that he is still currently working on his 'real' debut album, but is changing his musical direction to a more 'Rock' inspired sound, stepping away from electro-hop. In December 2011, Kirkland announced on his Twitter account that the new album is expected to be released on Summer/Fall 2012 and the first single in April 2012. In January 2012, he admitted that he had fell out of love with rap and is now pursuing rock full time. In his statement he said that rock is just something he's always dreamed of doing he really "feels" that aspect of music. Kirkland announced via Tumblr that his stigma album will be titled after one of his new songs, 'Denim Jacket Journeys (You Can't Be Me Im A Rock-star)', and confirmed the new album would indeed be released. Kirkland is about to release 2 music videos for his first new single 'Rebel Rises'. Another new track, 'llIVll', which is according to Royce is "The most hard hitting rebellious sounding record from the new album".

[edit]Controversy

Royce has been cited as very playful and shows this on his very controversial twitter account. He says outrageous things and tries to rail up everyone as much as possible. He also tweets what other people say about him as a 'joke'. Letting people believe what they want to believe about him. If you look deeper there are some seriously deep tweets in there. He has been stated to be undoubtedly over-confident, well-dressed, outspoken, incomparably talented, and devilishly handsome.

[edit]Discography

[edit]References

^ a b Cragg, Michael (2012-04-12), Royce Kirkland: He's the Rebel You Want 2 B, London: The Hackney Chronicles retrieved 2012-04-21 (and other variable reliable sources)

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