- LA Symphony
Infobox musical artist
Name = LA Symphony
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Origin =Los Angeles, California , USA flagicon|USA
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Genre = Hip hopChristian hip hop
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Years_active =1997 –present
Label =Eartube Empire Squint Entertainment Basement Records Gotee Records Syntax Records
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URL = http://www.lasymphony.com
Current_members = CookBook
FLYNN ADAM
Sharlok Poems
UNO Mas
Joey the Jerk
Past_members =Pigeon John
B-Twice
J-Beits
Coy
Notable_instruments =LA Symphony is a Christian hip-hop group from
Los Angeles, California . Current members of L.A. Symphony are FLYNN (also known as Flynn Adam), UNO Mas, CookBook, Joey the Jerk, and Sharlok Poems. Past members includePigeon John and BTwice, J-Beits a.k.a. Great Jason and Trendi MC (who compose Halieyoos Fishermen with Sharlok Poems), Coy (Paul "Coy" Allen ), Xpress, Gaja and Beond of Acid Reign.History
Formed in 1997, the band released their first album, 1999s "
Composition No. 1 " on independent record labelEartube Empire . They then recorded an album entitled "Call It What You Want " forSquint Entertainment , containing tracks produced by the band and by Mario C,will.i.am andPrince Paul . The album was sold as a bootleg copy at live shows and online until officially released on Squint as "CIWYW ", in addition to a release a promotional EP titled "Big Broke L.A." that contained tracks from "Call It What You Want".LA Symphony independently released the "Baloney" EP in
2002 . Originally, 1000 limited edition copies were pressed, hand-numbered and shipped in resealable sandwich bags. "Baloney" was later re-pressed.Following the "Baloney" EP, LA Symphony was signed to
Gotee Records . They then released "The End Is Now " in2003 , "Less Than Zero" in2005 and "Disappear Here" in2005 .On
November 22 ,2006 LA Symphony announced on theirMySpace blog that they will be releasing "Unleashed", a mixtape of unreleased material in summer2007 . Guests on the mixtape includePosdnuos andAwol One .Discography
*1999: "
Composition No. 1 "
*2001: "Call It What You Want "/CIWYW "
*2001: "Big Broke L.A. " (Promo EP)
*2002: "Baloney" (EP)
*2003: "The End Is Now "
*2005: "Less Than Zero
*2007: "Unleashed"External links
* [http://www.lasymphony.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/content/view/54/45/ L.A. Symphony Interview]
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