- Ronnie Day
Infobox Musical artist
Name = Ronnie Day
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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Ronald Guglielmone, Jr.
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Born = Birth date and age|1988|1|18|mf=yRedwood City ,California , U.S.
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Genre = Rock
Occupation =Musician
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URL = [http://www.ronniedaymusic.com/ www.ronniedaymusic.com]
Notable_instruments =Ronnie Day (born Ronald Guglielmone, Jr. on January 18, 1988) is an American
singer-songwriter fromRedwood City ,California . He has released an independent album titled "Nine Sleepless Nights" and a second album titled "The Album" which was released on November 14, 2006 bySony/BMG /Epic.Day started his public music career in a San Francisco Bay Area band called "Sounds Like Life," which also featured
John Vesely , who is now the principal artist in the acoustic-based band "Secondhand Serenade ." [cite web
url=http://www.mylocalbands.com/band.asp?xid=8353#bio
title=Sounds Like Life Biography
date=2004-06-20]In 2006, Day signed with
Epic Records after an industry-wide bidding war. He toured for one year, and was eventually dropped by his record label in June 2007. He has recently started his own company,Simplify Music , with plans to release a self-produced CD in 2009. [cite web
url=http://ronnieday.livejournal.com/18709.html
title=Ronnie Day Dropped By Label
last=Day
first=Ronnie
publisher=LiveJournal
date=2007-06-20
accessdate=2008-09-30]Most of Day's fanbase was initially on the Internet via his MySpace page, but it expanded as he toured the U.S. and had television exposure.
His song "Falling for You" has been heavily featured on various MTV shows, most notably "" and "The Hills".
mtvU is producing "The Ronnie Day Project", a narrative episodic music video series based on the music from his debut album "The Album." The series is directed by Joshua Caldwell, who won an MTV Movie Award for mtvU's Best Film on Campus at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards. The series will take place over six episodes, with each one a chapter of a larger story, following the narrative from Ronnie's album. [cite web
url=http://www.mtvu.com/music/ronnie_day/
title=The Ronnie Day Project on mtvU
publisher=mtvU
date=2007-04-19
accessdate=2008-09-30] [cite web
url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960022.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
title=Pop musicians make the grade at mtvU|author=Zeitchik, Steven
last=Zeitchik
first=Steven
publisher="Variety"
date=2007-02-22
accessdate=2008-09-30]Professional album reviews
* For "The Album":
**Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8s9sa93gr23s link]
**RebelPunk Rating|4|5 [http://rebelpunk.net/content/review.php?id=118 link]
**NeuFutur rating-10|7 [http://www.neufutur.com/Reviews/ronnieday.html link]References
External links
* [http://www.ronniedaymusic.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.purevolume.com/ronnieday Ronnie Day at Purevolume]
* [http://www.mtvu.com/music/ronnie_day/ Ronnie Day on mtvU]
* [http://www.myspace.com/ronnieday Ronnie Day's MySpace]
* [http://www.thesocalscene.com/interviews.php?interviewid=51 Ronnie Day Interview by Jamie Pham on TheSoCalScene]
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