Gregg Alexander
Gregg Alexander is an American singersongwriter and producer, best known as the frontman of the New Radicals, who scored the international hit You Get What You Give in late 1998. Earlier in life he recorded two solo albums, Michigan Rain and Intoxifornication. He dissolved the New Radicals in 1999 to focus on production and songwriting work, winning a Grammy Award for the song The Game of Love in 2003. Later he copenned songs for the film Begin Again, including Lost Stars, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Gregg Alexander was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, United States, and raised in a conservative Jehovahs Witness household. He received his first guitar at the age of twelve and taught himself to play several instruments. Along with his sister, Caroline, theyd play the piano and Gregg would compose songs. At age fourteen Gregg joined the band The Circus, with classmates George Snow, John Mabarak, along with Greggs older brother Stephen Aiuto. They played the 1984 highschool Battle of the Bands, competing against John Lowery . By the age of sixteen, he signed his first recording contract with AampM after playing his demo tapes to producer Rick Nowels. He released his debut album Michigan Rain in 1989 at the age of nineteen, to little notice. In 1992, he signed to Epic and released Intoxifornication, which consisted largely of rereleased songs from Michigan Rain and was again ignored.
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