A.P.T. Media Kit!
A Short Bio:
A product of a suburban upbringing with two parents. A big fan of “Weird Al” Yankovic. A humorist who never smokes and seldom drinks.
Oh – and a song he created helped President-Elect Barack Obama win the 2008 election.
A.P.T. – the initials of his name, Aaron P. Taylor – has been making music as far back as his early childhood. When he turned 15, he decided to become a hip-hop artist, and practiced his craft daily by freestyling songs whenever he had free time to himself.
While at Hampton University, A.P.T. would entertain people around campus with his remakes of other songs via his out-message for his answering machine. In his senior year, he purchased a drum kit and a Pocket Studio, and created his first CD, “The A.P.T. EP,” a combination of parodies and real songs that proved to be a hit with his fellow students.
Beyond graduation, A.P.T. continued to make music. He began using YouTube as a means of posting his music up on the world wide web. In May of 2008, he came up with the daunting idea of creating a website called “One-Song-A-Week by A.P.T.” (www.aptsongs.wordpress.com), where he would put up a new song and music video every Sunday - for ONE WHOLE YEAR.
Recently, A.P.T. has gained worldwide attention, due in large part to his music video for song number five, a remixing of Lil’ Wayne’s “A Milli” called “Obama, Obama” (re-dubbed by the public at large as “Obama Milli”). The song first took off on YouTube, then became an INTERNATIONAL SENSATION.
The song has been played on radio stations across the United States (on too many stations to mention here) as well as on BBC radio, and night clubs in Canada, Germany, Kuwait, and more. His song has also been quoted by celebrities and people in the major media, and A.P.T. has done several radio interviews, including 105.3 in Oklahoma and 900 AM radio in Philadelphia.
A.P.T. continues to develop a strong legion of fans from the online community. His songs/music videos have been enjoyed by millions of people, and his albums – “The O-Bama Mixtape,” “The A.P.T. LP” and “The Next Black President (a.k.a. Back On My Grind)” - have been downloaded/bought by many. He currently resides in the Northern VA/D.C. area, where he looks forward to cultivating his growing fan base.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS (SO FAR):
Created the popular website, “One-Song-a-Week by A.P.T.” (www.aptsongs.wordpress.com)
“Obama, Obama” (Lil’ Wayne “A Milli” remix) goes national, then worldwide
Interviewed by radio stations, pod casts, online magazines and college radio programs
Song featured twice on AllHipHop.com (July 2008 and October 2008)
“Obama Obama” catchphrase gets quoted by figured in the major media (T-Pain, Sal Malaki on E! News)
“Obama Obama” received over 400,000+ views on his YouTube page, and has been reposted by many others and viewed MILLIONS of times (and downloaded several thousands of times on his site)
“The O-bama Mixtape” gets downloaded over 3000 times by new listeners
“The A.P.T. LP” released and bought by numerous fans
Had a role as an extra in Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (February 2008)
OTHER SIGNIFICANT HIGHLIGHTS:
1. His “One-Song-a-Week” site – www.aptsongs.wordpress.com – gets an average of 1000 hits per day
2. His songs are also posted at www.soundclick.com, where, over the last year, his songs have charted in the top five of various charts, including:
“Obama Obama” (#1 on the Parody charts for several months)
“John McCain is a PIMP” (#1 on the Political Humor charts)
3. A.P.T. gets fan mail from all over the world, and has amassed a following of over 2600 MySpace fans and several hundred subscribers between his two YouTube pages, www.youtube.com/aptistheman and www.youtube.com/aptsongs.
A.P.T. MUSIC WEBSITES:
