Ahmir - Swagger Like Us
 

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AHMIR is a male contemporary R&B group based in Boston, Massachusetts. AHMIR is the #1 most popular R&B group on YouTube. The group is currently unsigned to a record label. The members of AHMIR consist of "Sing-Sing" (from Philadelphia, PA), "Big Mike" from (Harlem, NY), "Mr. Jones" (from Boston, MA) and "KC" (from Rochester, NY). AHMIR is managed by Michael J. Cheung, president of Chino World Management, Inc.Several years ago, Mr. Jones and Big Mike formed a friendship in Boston based on mutual respect for one another's talents. Big Mike made his way to Boston by attending Boston University. Michael Cheung, who is the current manager for AHMIR, had also developed a friendship with Mr. Jones while attending Boston University. Before long Mr. Jones, Big Mike and Michael Cheung each shared a vision of developing a male R&B group. Shortly thereafter, Michael Cheung brought in KC through auditions and Sing-Sing was scouted by Big Mike at a show at Berklee College of Music where he was a student.AHMIR gained in popularity in 2006 with their hit single, "Welcome To My Party." Although being an unsigned group, the single was announced as being the #19 top selling R&B Hip Hop Single of 2006 on Billboard's year-end chart. In addition, the track was deemed eligible for a 2007 Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B Track. Billboard featured them in an article entitled "They're Next" as the group won the "We Hear The Future" Showcase at the annual Billboard R&B Hip Hop Conference in Atlanta. AHMIR's notoriety also grew with their song entitled "The Wedding Song". "The Wedding Song" circulated quickly via Internet websites such as Myspace and a music video for the song on YouTube. Both songs were included on the group's debut album, "The Gift" which was released independently on April 11, 2007. "The Gift" was re-released on February 19, 2008 with 3 new tracks. This included the single "Angel", "No Place Like Home", and an acapella version of "No Place Like Home". "No Place Like Home" garnered honors as a finalist for the International Songwriting Competition and winner for the R&B Category of the USA Songwriting Competition. On June 26, 2007, AHMIR performed on the NBC TV Series America's Got Talent. They made it to the Top 35 round in Las Vegas. On the show, they mentioned that the word AHMIR is Arabic for prince (Amir / Emir in Arabic أمير) Two international tours increased AHMIR's global fanbase. The tours were entitled "The Welcome To My Party Tour" and "Comeback Tour" which included cities such as Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Linz, and Düsseldorf. AHMIR has opened for major recording artists such as John Legend, Busta Rhymes, 112, Jagged Edge and Boyz II Men and have been the recipient of many awards. In 2009, AHMIR became the #1 most popular R&B group on the website YouTube through an array of unique covers of contemporary top-charting songs, parodies, original music, and video blogs. As of December 2009, AHMIR's total video views on YouTube totaled more than 10,000,000. The popularity of AHMIR's covers such as Miley Cyrus' "The Climb" have led to online praise by celebrities such as Ryan Seacrest, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Lovato, Owl City, Brian J. White, Tiffany Thornton, Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, and Michael Mauldin father of Jermaine Dupri and industry veteran. AHMIR's growing presence on YouTube led to the release of the "AHMIR - Covers Collection Vol. 1". The group is also an advocate of several charity organizations including American Red Cross, Songs of Love, Autism Speaks, American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Words Matter, Yele Haiti and the YMCA. AHMIR has been seen performing at benefit concerts and dedicating songs on YouTube to bring awareness to these charities. They also appear in We Are The World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition) produced and edited by Lisa Lavie and Iman Crosson. In 2010, AHMIR had their world premiere single "Come Back". The song was written by band member Sing-Sing and produced by Big Dawg Productions (EMI) and Spikey Spike / Ahmir Music / Bos. America. The music video was directed by Conner Daly (ConnorBear Films).Media coverage * Television performances include the Fox Morning News, New England Cable News (NECN) Morning Show and Backstage with Barry Nolan on Comcast CN8. * Several newspapers in their home base of Boston have covered the success of AHMIR including: The Boston Globe - "Ahmir - Out of Nowhere, They've Topped Topped the Charts" April 11, 2007, "They've Got Talent" July 16, 2007; The Boston Herald - "The Perfect Gift" July 14, 2007; and the Boston Metro - "Ahmir's Got Talent" July 16, 2007. * The magazine VIBE also featured AHMIR in their September 2007 issue as an "Artist of the Month" feature with BlackPlanet.com * AHMIR appeared on the BET show 106 & Park on February 13, 2008, where they won the weekly Wild-Out Wednesday competition in the male R&B Group category with 45% of national audience online voting. Awards * "Best R&B Group" at the New England Urban Music Awards * Overall winner at the Worcester Idol Competition * First place at the Urban Explosion Talent Competition in NYC held by Urban Threshold * "Best Male R&B Group or Duo" at the 4th Annual Underground Music Awards in New York City * Winner at the "We Hear the Future" Showcase & Competition at the Billboard R&B Hip Hop Conference in Atlanta * "Best Album" for The Gift at the New England Urban Music Awards
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