Keidran Jones, known by his stage name Iyaz, was born in 1987 into a musical family.
16 Facts About Iyaz
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Iyaz was born and raised on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.
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Iyaz studied digital recording at New England Institute of Technology.
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Iyaz was featured on the track "Island Girls" by Out Da Box Family, which achieved radio success in the Caribbean.
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Iyaz took part in recording the Haiti charity single, "We Are the World 25 for Haiti".
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Iyaz appeared on the fourth season of Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana Forever and made a song with Miley Cyrus called "Gonna Get This", which is featured on the Hannah Montana Forever soundtrack album.
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In 2011, Iyaz played his part in Big Time Rush's song "If I Ruled the World".
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Iyaz released "Last Forever" with David Guetta as the producer, and its follow-up, "At Last".
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Iyaz was featured on New Boyz's single "Break My Bank" and Akon's "My Girl".
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Later, Iyaz did a duet called "You're My Only Shorty" with Demi Lovato, which is from Lovato's third studio album, Unbroken.
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Iyaz released a song with Travie McCoy titled "Pretty Girls" and later in the year a song titled "My Heart Broke" surfaced.
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Iyaz uploaded a duet song named, "Christmas Time" featuring Sha Sha Jones on to YouTube, A Christmas song which his grandparents requested.
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In 2014, after leaving his previous labels the year prior, Iyaz signed with new Los Angeles-based independent record label Rekless Music, which is distributed by the Alternative Distribution Alliance and Warner Music Group.
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Iyaz tweeted in December 2014 he would release a single titled "One Million", and released a snippet of the song on SoundCloud.
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Iyaz released "One Million" on iTunes in Japan on 12 December 2014, the first single from his second album Aurora, released exclusively in Japan on 8 April 2015.
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On 24 July 2015 Iyaz released the second single from Aurora, "Alive", featuring Nash Overstreet of Hot Chelle Rae.