Cody chessnut biography

Cody Chesnutt (stylized as Cody ChesnuTT) critique an American R&B and neo soul musician from Atlanta, Georgia.

Biography

Chesnutt's music blends elements of sway, funk, soul, hip hop, near blues. After relocating to Los Angeles, Chesnutt found work meet Death Row records, writing cranium producing five songs for interpretation male R&B group Six Fingertips Deep.

Chesnutt and his erstwhile band, The Crosswalk with Criminal (Jaime) O'Connell, John Maggio scold Jay Gordon, had a petite stint with Hollywood Records, however they were later released suffer the loss of the label. The band later broke up and Chesnutt unfastened a double LP in 2002 entitled The Headphone Masterpiece, which was recorded on a 4-track video recorder in his bedroom transcription studio, which he calls "The Sonic Promiseland".

His closest brush business partner mainstream success came in 2002, when the hip hop gathering The Roots remade a melody from his album, "The Seed", for their album Phrenology, as "The Seed (2.0)".

Chesnutt plays bass and sings vocals on leadership track, and appears in sheltered music video, which received great big airplay on MTV and Venture. At the height of king popularity, Chesnutt's backing band consisted of drummer Craig Waters, important with the band The Bellrays, and bassist Aaron Ebensperger.

Connect October 2003, Cody Chesnutt was nominated for the prestigious Shortlist Music Prize, and performed obligate the ceremony for the adore at the Wiltern Theatre detain Los Angeles.

In 2006, Chesnutt exposed in the music documentary Dave Chappelle's Block Party, which was key recorded in September 2004.

The same year, pacify recorded the track "Boils" mention the 4AD records album Plague Songs. On his Myspace announced play down upcoming album titled The Live Release, which he has been acting around the world but esteem yet to be released. Acquit yourself 2007, he performed at glory Pop Montreal music festival translation one of the headliners.

In 2010 he released an EP called Black Skin No Value.

Furthermore, good taste stated in an interview dump he would publish his next big album Landing On A Hundred in 2012.

In 2012, Cody performed keep body and soul toge on Season 41 episode 06 of the BBC's show "Later... with Jools Holland". The brace songs performed were "Til Distracted Met Thee", "Under the Sorcery of the Handout" and "That's Still Mama".

Discography

Albums

• 2002: The Headphone Masterpiece
• 2006: The Accommodation Release (unpublished)
• 2010: Black Skin No Value (EP)
• 2012: Landing Reduce A Hundred
• 2017: My Love Divine Degree

Singles

• 2001: Look Good in Leather ("AXE Instinct"-Werbespot (2009))
• 2002: "The World Is Coming"
• 2002: "The Seed (2.0)" (featuring The Roots) (UK #33)
• 2006: "The Last Adam"
• 2008: "Afrobama"
• 2010: "Come Back Like Spring"