Mandy Rain

Mandy Rain
Mandy Rain (center) with fellow School Gyrls members Jacque Pyles (left) and Monica Ann Parales (right).
Background information
Birth name	Amanda Moseley
Born	(1993-12-20) December 20, 1993 Hollywood, Florida, U.S.
Genres	Pop, dance, Urban pop, Pop rock (Early)
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, actress, dancer
Years active	2004–present
Associated acts	School Gyrls, The Giggle Club, Nick Canon
Website	Official Website
Notable instruments
Vocals

Amanda Moseley (born December 20, 1993) better known by her stage name Mandy Rain is an American Recording artist, dancer, and actress. Rain started her acting career at a young age. In 2007, Rain auditioned for "Star Camp" a Nickelodeon television show that focuses on the making of a super star musical group. Rain was chosen along with seven other kids to join the show and "The Giggle Club." The band disbanded shortly after the series' finale. Shortly afterwards, The Giggle Club's producer Nick Canon decided to groom Rain for a solo career. Canon started bringing Rain to recording studios to record songs while he was drafting a show for her called "The Diaries of Mandy Rain." After hearing one of the tracks Rain had recorded, Canon got inspired by it and decided to start drafting a different show about three private school girls. After several months, Canon formed "School Gyrls." The original line up featured Rain, Monica Parales, and Jacque Pyles. In the summer of 2009, School Gyrls starred in a movie Canon had written called "School Gyrls" which premeired on Nickelodeon on February 21, 2010. Shortly afterwards, they released a self-titled album "School Gyrls." Later that year, they also released a holiday album titled "A Very School Gyrls Holla-Day." Rain and Pyles left the group shortly after the release of the holiday album to focus on their solo careers.

A year after the disbandment of the School Gyrls, Rain released her debut single "Boogie".

Early Life

Mandy Rain was born as Amanda Moseley in Hollywood, Florida on December 20, 1993. Mosley is the daughter of actor and comedian Mark Moseley. Mosley has one brother named Matt Moseley who is a professional dancer.

Career

2004-2007: Career Beginnings

When Rain was 13-years-old, she auditioned for the Nickelodeon series "Star Camp". Rain was chosen along with seven other kids to be in a musical group called "The Giggle Club". Star Camp documented The Giggle Club as they recorded songs and performed live.^[1] During the filming of Star Camp, Moseley was given her stage name "Mandy Rain" by Nick Cannon. Shortly after season one, the Giggle Club had broken up so all the members could focus on their solo careers. After the series ended, Nick Cannon decided to groom Rain for a solo career. Cannon brought Rain to several record producers to record solo tracks, while he drafted a sitcom concept, "The Diaries of Mandy Rain", that he would pitch to Nickelodeon and Disney.

2008-2010: School Gyrls and films

Rain with fellow School Gyrls members in 2010

When Nick Cannon heard a song Mandy recorded called "Detention", Cannon instead pursued the idea of creating a TV show about three private school girls who meet in detention. Rain's version of "Detention" was later featured in the first School Gyrls' album. Shortly after, Cannon created the girl group "School Gyrls" which featured Rain, Monica Parales, and Jasmine Villegas. Villegas was only a member in the group briefly because she left to focus on a solo career. Shortly after Villegas left, Jacque Pyles was added to School Gyrls as the third member. In the summer of 2009, Rain filmed the made for television film "School Gyrls with her fellow School Gyrls members. annon convinced his friend L.A. Reid to allow an at the time up-and-coming Justin Bieber to make a cameo in the "School Gyrls" movie. By the time the movie aired on Nickelodeon more than six months later, Justin Bieber had become an international star, ensuring dramatic ratings for the introduction of the "School Gyrls". In 2010, The School Gyrls released an album titled "School Gyrls which served as the soundtrack to the film. The album spawned three singles, the first and only charting single "Something Like A Party" was a dance hit. Something Like a Party charted on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart at #5 for 13 weeks in a row.^[2] C

Later in 2010, Rain released a second album and movie titled "A Very School Gyrls Holla-Day" with School Gyrls. After the holiday movie had aired in January 2011, Nick Cannon began planning for the School Gyrls to star in a MTV-type reality series. In an interview on January 25, when asked about the future of School Gyrls, Rain stated that she had planned to pursue a solo career.^[3] Later that month, Rain confirmed her departure from the School Gyrls to pursue a solo career.

2011-present: Post School Gyrls and Solo Career

In late September, 2011, Rain announced that she would be releasing her debut single in October of that same year. She premiered a preview of the song on ClevverTV and also revealed that the song was called "Boogie".^[4] Rain released "Boogie" in October, 2011. A music video was released several months later in March 2012 and was directed by Fernando Cordero. Boogie was supposed to be the first single off of an Extended Play by Rain, but after a year there has been no word whether she is still releasing the extended play.^[5]

In 2012, Rain began working with manager and producer Shawn Campbell on an updated musical and marketing direction. Rain is currently unsigned, but is managed by Campbell and Darrien Henning of production company "Push Music Group".

Rain performed the National Anthem on December 23, 2013 at a L.A. Clippers game.^[6][7]

On January 15, 2014, Rain publicly announced on her official Twitter account that her latest single would be called "Riot" and that it would be self released on January 28, 2014. That same day Riot was made available for pre-oredering on iTunes.^[8] Riot was released four days before planned on January 24th. A few days prior to the release, Rain had a contest on Twitter where the first five to change their profile picture to Riot's cover art would get a phone call with Rain.^[9] In one of the phone calls, Rain revealed that she would be releasing a video within the next few months.^[10][11] On January 27, 2014, Rain appeared on CNN's "Showbiz Tonight".^[12] On January 30, 2014, Rain released an official lyric video to her YouTube channel realmandyrain.^[13]

Discography

Singles

With School Gyrls

As solo artist

Music videos

Philanthropy

Rain supports several organizations including Best Friend Animal Shelter. Rain started supporting organizations dealing with cancer after her grandfather died of cancer.^[20]

Filmography

Television

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Mandy Rain at the Internet Movie Database