Brandon Paris Band

Infobox musical artist
Name = Brandon Paris Band
Background = group_or_band


Origin = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre = rock, pop, reggae
Years_active = 2002–present
Label = formerly Koch Entertainment. currently independent
URL = http://www.brandonparis.com|www.brandonparis.com]
Current_members = Brandon Paris
Dagriff
Marc Gladstone
Chris Murray Driver
Bryan Jasper
Brian Sanheim

Brandon Paris Band is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Brandon Paris started the band in 2002. The band performs a fusion of pop, rock, reggae, punk and soul. They have gained a huge amount of popularity in many parts of Canada and attained an already significant fan base across Canada before they signed a deal with Koch Entertainment in January 2006. They released their first song "Rewind and Start Again" in March 2006, from their debut album titled "On My Own", which after a few months hit Top 20, peaking at #17 [http://www.tandemtracks.com] on the Canadian CHR charts. The second single almost reached top 40 at #53 CHR, Topping off an already exceptional year, Brandon Paris Band was nominated for Best New Group or Solo Artist (CHR) by the Canadian Radio Music Awards in spring of 2007 [http://www.cmw.net/cmw2009/awards_crma.asp] in 2006.

Name

The band is named after the lead singer, Brandon Paris, who was originally a solo artist and changed the name from "Brandon Paris" to "Brandon Paris Band" [http://www.myspace.com/brandonparisband] in 2006 right before the official release of the album. He decided to add "Band" at the end of his name as he thought it was easier than having to start over from scratch with marketing a new band name.

History

In 2002 Paris was approached by Dave Devindisch (former bassist of the Vancouver band DDT) at a concert where he asked if he would be interested in recording a demo at his home studio. Brandon agreed and soon after, Dave and Brandon formed a two man band playing at local venues. In 2003, Paris decided to finally record a full album with Ninjabeatz Studios in Burnaby, British Columbia, where reggae artist Dagriff was recording his solo album. Dagriff was approached by Paris and asked if he would be interested in collaborating on one song from the album he was recording. Soon after, Dagriff joined the band and became a huge influence on the band's music. Dagriff was eventually featured on more than half the album which took over two full years to eventually complete. In 2004, Greg Ellis was asked if he would play guitar on a couple songs for the album which resulted in him joining the band as well. In 2005, Chris Murray Driver, who was friends with Dave Devindisch, joined the band, and only a few months later talked his friend Marc Gladstone (keyboards) into joining the band. Both Marc and Chris are former members of the band Doug and the Slugs.

In spring 2005, Paris tried to release the songs independently to radio with no success. A few months later he approached Vancouver-based record producer Troy Samson of Hipjoint Productions [http://www.hipjointproductions.net/news_2007.html] (Moka Only, Kreesha Turner, Snoop Dogg) and Jeff Dawson [http://www.jeffdawsonproductions.com] (State of Shock, Kelly Rowland, Daniel Powter, Marcy Playground), to rework six of the original recordings. This took the whole project to a new level. Paris changed the name from "Brandon Paris" to "Brandon Paris Band" and decided they were finally ready to shop their debut album now titled "On My Own".

in January 2006, Brandon Paris Band signed a deal with Koch Entertainment literally overnight just days after sending out their album to record labels across Canada, with many offers following. Their debut albums' first single, "Rewind and Start Again", was a huge success on commercial radio after being released on March 13, 2006. The song climed up to top 20 on the Canadian CHR charts (tracked by Radio & Records (Billboard Information Group)) [http://www.tandemtracks.com] . "Somebody to Hold" was also well received in many cities and reached almost top 40 status peaking at #53. Koch Entertainment, Brandon Paris Band's record label, decided to release "Give Me a Reason" only a month after the release of "Somebody to Hold", in hopes of getting better results, but to their dismay it wasn't enough to reach top 40 status. "Give Me a Reason" unfortunately peaked at #77 on CHR. Topping off an already exceptional year, Brandon Paris Band was nominated for Best New Group or Solo Artist (CHR) by the Canadian Radio Music Awards in spring of 2007 [http://www.cmw.net/cmw2009/awards_crma.asp] .

In January 2007, Ellis and Devindisch were replaced by Bryan Jasper on guitar and Brian Sanheim on bass. Brandon Paris Band finished writing thier second album June 2008 and have since been recording their entire album in The Factory Studios [http://www.thefactorystudios.com] , engineered and mixed by Sheldon Zaharko (Billy Talent, Smugglers, New Pornographers, Barney Bentall, Ridley Bent).

Discography

Albums

* "On My Own" (October 3, 2006)

ingles

Members

*Brandon Paris – Lead vocals (2002–present)
*Dagriff – Reggae/lead vocals (2003–present)
*Marc Gladstone – Keys and backing vocals (2005–present)
*Chris Murray Driver – Drums (2005–present)
*Bryan Jasper – Guitar (2007–present)
*Brian Sanheim – Bass backing vocals (2007–present)

Former members

*Dave Devindisch – Bass and backing vocals (2002–2006)
*Greg Ellis – Guitar (2004–2006)

Band member timeline

The initial band members were (based on available information):

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Nominations

Best New Group CHR in 2006 [http://www.cab-acr.ca/english/media/news/07/nr_jan1507.shtm]

References

External links

* [http://www.brandonparis.com Official Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/brandonparisband Brandon Paris Band on Myspace]
* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brandon-Paris-Band Brandon Paris Band on Facebook]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QfxCVp45Qc Youtube Biography video]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IRiiBOUOWg Youtube Music video "Rewind & Start Again"]