Career Van Hunt

1 career

1.1 career
1.2 capitol records
1.3 blue note
1.4 independent
1.5 godless hotspot , hoping for?
1.6 fun rises, fun sets

career
early career

hunt wrote , co-produced song hopeless singer dionne farris, formerly of arrested development, , joined band on guitar , keyboards. hopeless appeared on soundtrack film love jones (1997). hunt co-wrote several songs rahsaan patterson on album love in stereo (1999), , co-wrote cree summer, including song mean sleep , album street faërie (1999), produced lenny kravitz. collaborated joi on single missing (2002). through dionne farris, hunt met a&r person randy jackson (who later went on judge on fox s american idol). jackson become hunt s manager in 2002.

capitol records

hunt recorded of songs debut album in 2000. producer dallas austin took hunt s recording capitol records, leading him sign label in 2001. hunt s first album, van hunt, released in february 2004. album included singles down here in hell (with you) , dust , , seconds of pleasure , , nominated grammy award best urban/alternative performance. hunt s second album, on jungle floor, released in 2006. album featured single, character, revisited mean sleep , duet nikka costa, , cover of no sense of crime stooges. album co-produced bill bottrell. hunt has toured , appeared mary j. blige, alicia keys, boney james, roots, seal, angie stone, coldplay, brand new heavies, dave matthews band, , kanye west.

in 2006, hunt appeared nikka costa on sam moore album, overnight sensational, on song if had no loot . hunt featured on half fun , track on count bass d album, act waist size, released on fat beats records.

in 2007, hunt won grammy award best r&b performance duo or group vocals, along john legend , joss stone, cover of sly & family stone song, family affair , appeared on 2006 tribute album different strokes different folks. hunt described winning award 1 of bigger pleasures ve had athens blur magazine in 2009.

blue note

hunt released 4 track digital ep, popular machine, on august 7, 2007. hunt announced full-length album, popular, released on blue note records on january 15, 2008. hunt moved atlanta los angeles in 2007 while album nearing completion. blue note had taken on hunt s recording contract after corporate restructuring @ blue note , capitol s parent company, emi. in december 2007, blue note announced not releasing album, , hunt , label mutually agreed part ways. hunt wrote on myspace blog in january 2008, couldn t promise popular ever officially released. blue note owns master recordings , opted not sell him @ affordable price. hunt commented didn t think had enough money promote album properly. la weekly called album appealingly trippy fusion of funk grooves, punk guitar , soul vocals , , left-field stunner . hunt told atlanta alternative weekly newspaper creative loafing devastated when label decided not release album. in august 2017, popular saw official release on online distributors 10 years after shelved.

independent

as of june 2008, hunt recording fourth album, plans release himself , market using internet. hunt has blogged new approach on myspace page. hunt toured u.s. in july , august 2008. released use in case of emergency, compilation of demos, remixes , b-sides recorded between 1997 , 2005, through web site in may 2009. in 2009, hunt performed on theme song film hurricane season, entitled on our way. hunt has been working on autobiographical book of short stories titled tales of friction. in july 2009, hunt told atlanta journal-constitution plans release 1 more album , tour once more, not know plans after that. hunt performed @ national black arts festival s tribute curtis mayfield @ atlanta symphony hall on july 16, 2010. on june 15, 2011, hunt released song june , third studio album hoping for?. album released on september 27, 2011.

godless hotspot , hoping for?

van hunt performing @ music midtown, 2012.

on june 14, 2011 van hunt took twitter announce release of first song in 3 years. song june released @ midnight via mike ragogna of huffington post along announcement of title of forthcoming album (what hoping for?) , release date. subsequent longer article song june , new album , van s new approach appear later same day on music remedy website. article not talk joint venture-between hunt s own label godless-hotspot , thirty-tigers. goes on june first of series of free songs released various sites until release of new album. next eyes pearls first official single album set released radio sometime in july

the fun rises, fun sets

van hunt released updates of work on upcoming album via pledgemusic during course of 2014. in march 2015, announced title of album fun rises, fun sets, due release on may 5, 2015. previewed release of new album new single vega (stripes on) , available release via itunes , amazon , followed single, old hat . both tracks had official videos accompany releases. album charted @ #31 on billboard top r&b/hip-hop albums.