Mikey Wax

Mikey Wax
Mikey Wax Live In Toronto 06/18/2014
Background information
Birth name	Michael Ross Wax
Origin	Syosset, New York, United States
Genres	Pop/Rock, acoustic, indie
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Toucan Cove (2014-present)
Website	MikeyWax.com

Mikey Wax is an American pianist, guitarist and singer-songwriter, most recognized for his single "You Lift Me Up" featured in the season 10 promo commercial of Keeping Up With The Kardashians on E! Entertainment. "You Lift Me Up" has also been featured during NBA games on FOX Sports, and has over six million Spotify streams and one million YouTube views.

Biography

Mikey Wax is a singer/songwriter from Long Island, New York, who started playing piano at the age of 8. Upon graduating from high school, Mikey attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

His debut album "Change Again" was self-released in November 2008 and includes the song "In Case I Go Again" which was selected as the winner of The Unsigned Artist radio contest held by WRMF / 97.9 FM South Florida.^[1] The single was featured on CBS Ghost Whisperer.^[2] In July 2010, the music video for "In Case I Go Again" was featured on the homepage of YouTube as part of their "Music Tuesday" spotlight receiving 500,000 views. "In Case I Go Again" was featured on NBC during the 2012 Summer Olympics, as well as featured on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars in July, 2013.

Wax has toured in the U.S. with Parachute, Andy Grammer, Jon McLaughlin, Matt Wertz, Rachel Platten, Howie Day, Tyler Ward, Ryan Cabrera, Tyler Hilton and Tony Lucca among others. Mikey has been known to play the piano and guitar simultaneously. Wax also got his start performing in his fans living rooms across the country. He has played over 200 house concerts.

In 2011, Mikey recorded a full-length album with producer Warren Huart (The Fray, James Blunt). The album titled "Constant Motion" released independently in September 2011, ranking at #6 on the iTunes singer/songwriter chart, and #47 on Billboard Heatseekers chart. The single "Counting on You" received radio airplay on major adult top 40 (Hot-AC) stations, and debuted on the Mediabase adult top 40 radio chart on April 9, 2012. Mikey was selected by New Music Seminar as an "Artist on the Verge" and also featured by iHeartRadio as an "Artist To Watch". In the summer of 2012, "Counting on You" was used as the elimination montage song on all episodes of FOX's So You Think You Can Dance. "Counting on You" was also featured in the movie trailer for the major motion picture Playing For Keeps. This got him picked up in USA Today^[3] and on Young Hollywood.^[4] "Counting on You" was selected as a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition (ISC), and as a finalist in the second annual Guitar Center unsigned singer/songwriter contest.

Mikey's original holiday song "And A Happy New Year" receives radio airplay annually on SiriusXM Holly, and was featured on ABC Family's Switched At Birth in December, 2014.^[5] Shockya.com says Wax "makes holiday music "the cool thing to listen to"."^[6] "And A Happy New Year" is also featured in the WWE Studios film "Santa's Little Helper", while his songs "Perfect Holiday" & "Catch The Midnight Flight" are featured in the film "A Dogwalker's Christmas Tale", which aired on Up (TV network).

In late 2013, Mikey's song "For Better Or Worse" was featured on the Lifetime (TV network) show Dance Moms, and his song "So Crazy" premiered in a promo commercial for Brazilian TV network GNT,^[7] which led to the song charting on the Top 100 iTunes Pop Chart Brazil, and Mikey signing a sub-publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music South America.

Wax recorded his 3rd full-length album with Nashville producer/brother duo Ed Cash and Scott Cash. "You Lift Me Up", the first single off the record, released digitally on Toucan Cove Records in March 2014, debuting on the iTunes US Top 200 Pop Chart. iTunes featured the song as "Ahead of the Curve". The dance remix of the song, produced by EDM duo Live City, premiered on BPM (Sirius XM). The remix has also attained over six million streams on Spotify, while the lyric video for the original mix has received over one million YouTube views. "You Lift Me Up" has since been placed on MTVs The Real World, and The Challenge: Battle of the Exes II. "You Lift Me Up" was also featured in the season 10 promo commercial of Keeping Up With The Kardashians on E! Entertainment, and in all FOX Sports NBA games throughout the second half of the 2015 season. The full album, self-titled "Mikey Wax", released on June 10, 2014. He was a featured artist on mobile music app smule, and was named by American Airlines as their Artist Of The Month. He also landed a spot in the Huffington Post.^[8] "Drive On", a digital bonus track on the album, was written and recorded for the film The Road Within. In January, 2015, RantLifestyle Magazine listed Mikey as 1 of "15 Musicians You’ve Never Heard Of Who Deserve A Grammy", saying that Wax is a "piano prodigy" who writes "inspirational and lyrical" music and has "even managed to turn into a social media phenomenon."^[9]

Super Bowl MVP / Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has publicly tweeted his support of Mikey's music, mentioning him as an artist on his game day playlist.

Mikey premiered his new single "Love Always Wins (#LoveWins)", inspired by marriage equality, exclusively on RyanSeacrest.com in July 2015.^[10] The Huffington Post later announced that the song would be featured in the promo commercial for E! Entertainment's highly anticipated docu-series I Am Cait.^[11] The promo commercial aired on E! for 8 weeks. SoundHound also featured the song on the app homepage. In August, 2015, YouTuber Devin Graham (DevinSupertramp) released a cliff-jumping video featuring "You Lift Me Up". The video, filmed along the cost of Italy, has over 1,500,000 views. Mikey performed lived on the AOL Build Series on September 11, 2015. Mikey's song "Walking On Air" was featured on MTVs Finding Carter in November, 2015. Mikey's song "Take Me Home" was featured in a United Airlines commercial in the United Kingdom in December, 2015.

Discography

Studio albums

References

External links

• Mikey Wax Official Website

• Mikey Wax on Facebook
• Mikey Wax on Twitter