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Taio Cruz Teams Up With Ke$ha

• 25th Mar 2010

Taio Cruz has taken America by storm as his debut US single “Break Your Heart” has vaulted to # 1 on the US iTunes chart today. This is an astonishing achievement for the multi-talented artist/writer/super producer as the single is his first release in the United States.

The success of “Break Your Heart” follows hard on the heels of the recent US success of Island /Cash Money’s Jay Sean, whose single “Down” topped the US Billboard chart in October 2009. “Break Your Heart”, which was recently nominated for a Brit Award, entered the UK singles chart at no. 1 where it remained for 3 weeks.

Now Taio sets his sights on the UK chart once more with the release of his brand new single “Dirty Picture” featuring the red-hot miss Tik Tok herself Ke$ha. Ever the keen talent scout Taio invited Ke$ha onto the track long before she broke through in the US, and the resulting presciently titled song has been one of the most cherry-picked on Cruz’s acclaimed second album “Rokstarr”.

The pair have just shot a suitably (in)appropriate video for the track.

A remix of “Dirty Picture” featuring DRAKE, the hottest rapper in the US right now, will be available shortly.

Things are really hotting up for Taio with his recent Brit Award nomination for Best Single, and the news that “Break Your Heart” is really breaking through in the US. “Break Your Heart”, featuring the mighty Ludacris, is his first single release in the US and for it to hit the number 1 spot on the iTunes chart is a phenomenal achievement for the 26 year old hit maker.

In the last couple of years Taio Cruz has established himself as a major UK artist in his own right, as well as the go-to writer /producer/performer when a hit record is the order of the day. In that time the he has written, produced and performed with a long list of top-drawer A-list performers.

In the wake of success of his debut album Departure (2008), which spun off a quintet of UK chart hits (“I Just Wanna Know,” “Moving On,” “Come On Girl,” “I Can Be,” “She's Like a Star”), Taio was tapped to work in the studio with X Factor champs Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke, and Shayne Ward.

Sessions followed in Philadelphia with writing for Britney Spears, Brandy, and Justin Timberlake. The year climaxed at the MOBO Awards with a Best Single nomination for “She's Like a Star,” which Taio performed with Sugababes.

With the completion of Rokstarr in 2009, overlapping the success of “Break Your Heart,” Taio kept himself busy writing and producing for Cheryl Cole's double-platinum UK debut album 3 Words. Taio also scored his second #1 UK single as writer of the Tinchy Stryder/Amelle smash “Never Leave You”; Taio previously wrote and performed on Tinchy's Top 3 hit “Take Me Back.”