Biography
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Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States
While best known for Billboard dance hits “Sunrise”, “Ocean Drive”, “I’m Listening, and remake of Roxy Music’s “More Than This”, Madison Park is downtempo duo James and DeAnna Cool. The couple launched their record label, basicLUX Records in 2002 and executive-produced a series of chill-out compilation CDs. New Sound Theory, Volume 1 was released in early 2003 and featured a few tracks by the duo including “My Personal Moon”, which unexpectedly garnered immediate attention. Released as a single, it hit the Billboard Dance Sales Chart. It was then that Madison Park decided to release their debut full-length CD, Boutique, earlier than planned.
Their sophomore album, In the Stars, was released June 20th, 2006. In the Stars produced more Billboard dance hits such as “I’m Listening” (also making the Billboard Sales chart) and “More Than This”.
December 9, 2008 marked the release of Madison Park’s third album, Another Yesterday. Radio hits from the album include title track “Another Yesterday” and “Come Out And Play”, a collaboration with Swedish house artist Monodeluxe.
Later that year Madison Park’s remix of Nina Simone’s “The Look of Love” was placed in the film Sex and the City.
In between full-length CDs, Madison Park released scores of singles and executive-produced four volumes of New Sound Theory, as well as titles Roxy Remodeled, In a Trance, The Mistletoe Lounge, Holiday Remixed and Summer Vibin’.
On 12.02.14 Madison Park dropped another single, “Parts of Me”, the first cut off of the fourth MP album.
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