Artist:MAJOR.
Song:Why I Love You
Album:Even More
The 2016 single Why I Love You came out of nowhere after soul legends Stevie Wonder and Patti LaBelle gave their stamp of approval. Then it spread online and now it's a major wedding song. MAJOR. is singer songwriter Major R. Johnson Finley. He was born Mar. 10, 1984 in Denton, TX. and he grew up in Houston in a blended family of ten kids. After graduating from Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Finley studied at Berklee in Boston and then moved to Los Angeles after graduation. After posting videos on YouTube. Finley signed with British producer Harmony Samuels and his label BOE Music Group. Samuels has produced Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Lopez among others. Then he retired in 2007. He opened his own recording studio in 2011 and produced Ariane Grande's 2013 debut single The Way. Then he started his own label. He produced Finley's 2016 debut EP I Am MAJOR. After Stevie Wonder hailed Why I Love You as wedding song of the year and Patti LaBelle sang it at one of her concerts, Why I Love You went viral and reached #12 on the R&B Singles chart. Then Finley performed Why I Love You on the Soul Train Awards broadcast. The album Even More was released in 2018. You can get it as a digital download. Finley released a couple of spoken word recordings. And he appeared on the FOX TV series Star. He recently released a new EP The Hope of My Soul produced by Samuel and Joe Sumner (Sting's son). Maybe listeners have forgotten about him. Here's the video for Why I Love You by MAJOR.
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