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Love Is All Gone

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Released: Jan 1, 2009

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Love Is All Gone
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Let Me Make It Clear
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My Baby
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I Can't Get Over You
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Dying Inside To Hold You
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Genre: Hip Hop / Pop / R&B
Location Chicago, Un
Profile Views: 1282835
Last Login: 8/23/2011
Member Since 2/11/2004
Website www.ibumusic.com
Type of Label Unsigned
Bio
THE IBU STORY 2005 R&B Group Of the Year, New York Intl Music Festival / 2004 Best R&B Group, New York Intl Music Festival / 2003 Winner of the State sponsored Chicago Music Opportunity Project / Sang the National Anthem at 13 White Sox Games 2005-2009 / IBU, short for Inspired By U, the name the chose as they claim to be inspired by the people they sing to. IBUs uniquely rich harmonies and outstanding dance skills quickly earned them the distinction as America's most sought after Asian-American performing group. Now on its 7th year, IBU continues to make headlines, thrusting itself more and more to the forefront of the mainstream music scene. WGN/WB Channel 9 Chicago called them Chicagos hottest boy group, and 102.3FM introduced them as Asians with Soul. In November 2004, IBU competed with 300 artists from around the world at the New York International Music Festival in Manhattan and was voted as the best R&B Group, becoming the first ever and the only Asian-American group to ever win at the festival. In 2005, the festival named them R&B Group of the year. The year before, IBU won the state-sponsored, the Chicago Music Opportunity Project, with Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child as one of the judges. The group has become a favorite by the world series champion Chicago White Sox, performing the National Anthem at thirteen games Their songs were ranked number 6 by Hot 97.7FM in the bay area and has been played in many radio stations in the US, Asia and Europe. The group has performed from the bay area to the big apple and is one of the busiest Asian American performing groups in the country today. In 2007 IBU was featured on MTV2 On The Rise. The group has been seen internationally, on various shows ABS-CBN/The Filipino Channel, as well as the International Channel. IBU's songs have ranked 6 on Hot 97.7FM's playlist in April 2006, Voted 13 on 97.3FM Missouri, and 3 on WCH Radio's top 30 songs of 2006. They have appeared on Fox TV, WGN, Cable Access TV and various TV stations in Honolulu, San Francisco and Seattle. IBU has released its first solo album entitled Redefined, in August 2005, their fourth recording project. Chicago Tribune ran a story about the groups struggle to overcome stereotyping of the Asian-American Artists by the Mainstream Music Industry and media in November 2004. IBU took a hiatus from performing in early March 2009 to work on their sophomore album. The album is titled "Inspired By U," which is distributed by Koch/E1 Entertainment. In this album, IBU to showcases their true R&B character as an artist, in the true tradition of their soulful and harmony drenched compositions. The songs present a more mature IBU, vocally and artistically.
Members
Tommy Chanthasene Mike Musni Jonathan Shauf
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Broken Record IBU (Tommy Chanthasene, Mike Musni and Jonathan Shauf) Words and music by Tommy Chanthasene Produced by Soulblazers (Germany) Distributed by Koch/E1 Entertainment Producers: Inspired Collection LLC, Anthony Andaleon and Glenn Bermejo Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Anthony Andaleon Project Manager: Roger Claudio Casting Director: Glenn Bermejo Project Manager: Roger Claudio Art Directors: Vasyl Medianyi and Valerian Ocampo Cameramen: Anthony Andaleon, Maribeth Ratajczyk and Ruel Calitis Production assistants: Ryan and Francis Claudio Lights Engineer: Danny Domingo Audio Technician: Rommel Gaspar Photographers: Andrea Alfer and Mitch Samonte Band: Sherwin Benavides, Romeo Contreras, Monn Carlo Escalona, Alex Fajardo, Mike Rivera Girlfriends: Audrey Aguilan (Tommy), Connie Alvarez (Mike) and Alicia Mali (Jonathan) Studio Engineer: Gary Guzman Dancers: Gilbert Bentley Jr and Rico Merced Girl in Bar: Steph Mitchell Supporting cast: Joy Banzon, Amanda Nowak-Bulkala, Vincent Barbosa, Rizza Benavides, Jason Bobila, John "Jargon" Dee, Almira Fajardo, Kristen Nicole Figueroa, Stephanie Garcia, Vivian Garcia, Giselle Grace Gayapa, Daven Green, Robert Green, Joshua Kirksy, Rob McFly, Mitch Samonte, Tanesha Yates Sponsors : Spank Music and Sound Design, American Home Care Express, Live Sound Company, Rebel Spirit Clothing, We Film International LLC, South Sea Asian Cuisine and the Buenaflor Family
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