Adam Barta

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Adam Barta (born September 21st, 1979) is a Bronx born, Billboard-breakout, mainstream dance recording artist. With beginnings in off-Broadway musical theatre, he became lead singer in a boyband, after which time his solo music career took off in 2005 with his hit single Dirty Girls. It received airplay on stations across the nation, including Sirius satellite radio and many FM stations. The Armory Project’s remix was heard at top dance clubs around the country. He also collaborated with The Verve Pipe’s Brad Vander Ark to do an unreleased dance remake of the Olivia Newton John classic, Physical. In Spring 2006 he recorded a new dance single, [I Wanna Hold You], written and produced by DJ Mike Rizzo (WKTU). The advent of this song meant great successes and helped him achieve a new career status. Working with top producers such as Rizzo, the Klubjumpers, Tom E. Boy and Diego Garcia, the song was heard on radio across the country. The music video made it on the May 2007 Promo Only club video series and was featured by them at 2007’s Winter Music Conference, where Adam performed. After receiving a breakout at #5 on the Billboard hot club play charts, peaking at #23 in March 2007’s DJ Times dance charts and being added to Abercrombie & Fitch stores throughout the country, EsNtion Records took notice and signed Adam for a dance single on Russ Harris’ album, Ear Therapy, which also featured the labels top artists such as Danielle Bollinger and DJ Keri. They then signed him to a full album. A DJ Times review for May called him “one of the strongest male vocalists in 2007” and a July feature in Skope Magazine called his voice “surprisingly pleasant” and deemed him all about hard work. His music video hit the #1 spot on MTV LOGO’s Click List in August alongside Hilary Duff and Justin Timberlake, and called him the “new king” of the Click List. (Taken from the www.MTVLOGO.com website, August 2007)

NOTEABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Hit the #1 spot on MTV LOGO network’s Click List in August, alongside Justin Timberlake and Hilary Duff

• Had a breakout on the Billboard hot club play charts, peaked at #3 on DJ Times dance chart, hit #1 spot on Loud City music chart, peaked at #17 on FMQB’s dance music chart, hit #47 on about.com’s dance music chart, and music video is played on BPM TV in Canada, all for I Wanna Hold You

• I Wanna Hold You is played in all Wal-Mart retail stores

• Has shared stages with Lucas Prata, Reina, Danielle Bollinger, and performed at the Hard Rock Café (NY), The Knitting Factory, Winter Music Conference 2007, the Jacob Javits center, as a guest on Fun 107.7 (MA) with Scott Medieros, and on Pride Radio with Jay and Caroline (syndicated)

• Appeared in the July 2007 issue of Skope Magazine, cover of July 2007 Cashbox, & September 2007 issue of Outlook

• Recorded an unreleased version of “Let’s Get Physical”, which was produced by Brad Vander Ark from The Verve Pipe

• Is signed to EsNtion Records/Ryko (Warner Music Group) and his first single is Standing in the Rain