Northcarolian: The Dream

Songwriter, turned R&B singer was born in Rockingham, NC. Birthname Terius Youngdell Nash,who now goes by the dream moved down to Atlanta, GA, with his mother at the age of three. He began his love for music at a young age. He first learned how to play the trumpet in elementary school, the later on picking up intruments such as: the drums and guitar.
Once he graduated from high school her began his singing career, but it was off to a slow start. He began to start selling lyrics after he met up with Laney Stewart in 2001. Stewart helped him land his first publishing contract in 2003. Over the next four years he wrote sucessful hits for artists like Britney Spears, Madonna, but the height of his songwriting career was with Rihanna's international hit "Umbrella". After that smash hit he was being approached by different labels, particuarly def jam, Rhianna's label. They eventually stopped dancing around the issue of him breaking out as a solo artist after he wrote the hit "Bed" for new coming artist J Holiday.
In fall of 2007 the dream released his first sing, "Shawty is a ten". At the end of the year he followed up with his album titled "Love me all summer, hate me all winter." Even while recording his own material her still manages to write for other people such as: R kelly, Sting, Celine Dion, and Mary J blige. His music contintues to get people jumping out of theie seats when they hear beats from "The Dream". His tunes captures ladies hearts all over the states. When you think of R&B he is truly the epiphony. Listen to some of his track and let me know which one is your favorite. To listen go to http://www.last.fm/music/The+Dream/+tracks