Band or Musician Name
P.D.A.
Type of Music
Pop - Hip Hop
How long have you been together/working?
5 years.
What is your connection to Oklahoma?
Born, raised and taught in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Every song and note is a story based on something that happened to P.D.A. in the great state of OK.. :) Tulsa is the training ground..
History of the Band
P.D.A. is an American pop/hip hop artist and producer from Tulsa, OK. The name P.D.A. stands for Public Display of Afflection (Afflection being a hybrid of the words Affliction and Affection for what he states as a "the struggle between love and hate"). He has been named one of Tulsa's Most Influential People in 2007, 2008, and 2010.
P.D.A. started his music career early. He began singing in school choirs and at the age of 11 he joined the Tulsa Youth Opera and performed in off broadway musicals such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He then turned to hip-hop music at the age of 13 and released his first album "Prologue" at the age of 18. He interned at a local recording studio (Big Wolf Entertainment) where he learned the basics of studio recording and there he worked on his second album Act I - The Next Concept that was released later in his career due to artistic complications. He soon left Big Wolf Entertainment and started his own home studio under the name Squaresoft Productions (no relation to the video game company) and began work on his next album.
Act II - A Different Victim:
He began work on Act II in the summer of 2006 and released the album in February 2007 after signing with the independent label Fat Lip Entertainment. The album consists of 17 songs and features samples from a wide range of different artists such as White Zombie, Melanie Safka, Diana Ross and the Supremes, as well as samples from the video game soundtracks of Um Jammer Lammy and Resident Evil 4. Act II also contains a remade version of Madonna's song "Human Nature". P.D.A. produced, recorded and mixed the entire album himself at his home studio. Act II - A Different Victim released to regional acclaim landing P.D.A. three of Tulsa World's Spot Music Awards for Album of the Year, and Best Hip-Hop Artist 2 years in a row and was nominated for an ABOT award for Best Locally Produced, Independent Album, but lost to a pre-fame David Cook. The album also helped him land the cover of Urban Tulsa, a popular publication in Tulsa. The local success of the album provoked a solid 2 years of national tours and eventually led to being featured in SPIN Magazine and Oklahoma Magazine and opening for acts such as Akon, Jeffery Star, The Millionaires, and Critical Bill. In 2010 Act II was named #61 in Oklahoma Rock's 100 Greatest Albums of the 2000s.
Continued at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.D.A._(rapper)
Advice
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