1. Colby O'Donis is best known for his guest appearance on Lady Gaga's 2008 single "Just Dance", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, spent over 11 months on the chart, and received diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Colby O'Donis was born in Queens, New York, and grew up there and in Florida.
Colby O'Donis's mother, Olga, is a singer once crowned Miss Puerto Rico in New York, and his father, Freddy "Fast Freddy" Colon is a New York disc jockey who worked on New York station WQHT.
Colby O'Donis was named after Colby O'Donis, a firefighter who was killed while saving his father's life.
Colby O'Donis has stated that, for seven years, she helped pay for his dance, piano, and guitar lessons out of her own paychecks.
When Colby O'Donis was eight, his parents relocated to Orlando, Florida, and a year later, he began collaborating with the production group Full Force, the same group that had worked with Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and Britney Spears.
Colby O'Donis' rise to fame began at age ten, when he became the youngest recording artist ever signed to Motown in order to do a song for a major motion picture soundtrack.
At age twelve, his father bought him his first production studio, and by the time he had reached fourteen, Colby O'Donis was opening local Florida shows for major recording artists, including Backstreet Boys, Brian McKnight, 98 Degrees, Britney Spears, and Ne-Yo.
Shortly after his fifteenth birthday, Colby O'Donis' parents made the decision to relocate to Los Angeles, California, and pursue a recording deal.
In 2006, Colby O'Donis almost signed a record deal with Babyface.
However, before the deal was finalized, Colby O'Donis' management set up a meeting between Colby O'Donis and Akon.
Colby O'Donis agreed and, for the next two years, he waited for the label to "get going and achieve the stature they need to launch new artists" before being officially signed.
Colby O'Donis has said that, before he signed with Interscope Records and Akon, he had already released six independent record albums.
In 2010, Colby O'Donis was featured in a song called "What You Waiting For" by Malaysian artist Mizz Nina, which has received extensive airplay in Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries.
In 2013, after what he described as "a 4-year hiatus", Colby O'Donis began working on his second studio album, titled Start Over.
Colby O'Donis grew up listening to artists including the Temptations, Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson, and Usher.
Colby O'Donis married Erin Yvonne, a dancer, actress and life coach on November 21,2016.