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Dan August Rigo (born August 6, 1986) is a Filipino-Canadian recording artist, songwriter, producer and musician. August Rigo is signed to a publishing contract with Sony/ATV[1] as a songwriter.

August Rigo
Birth name	Dan August Rigo
Born	(1986-08-06) August 6, 1986 (age 36) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Pop, R&B, dance-pop
Occupation(s)	Songwriter, record producer, singer
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Alpine Music, Sony/ATV, Island Def Jam
Website	augustrigo.com

Early life

Rigo was born on August 6, 1986, in Toronto. He became passionate about music when he watched Michael Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean" on Motown's 25th Anniversary TV Show. He taught himself to play keyboards and guitar while in his teens.[2]

Music career

He Co-wrote U Smile, "Stuck in the Moment" and "Kiss And Tell" for Justin Bieber, Solo for Iyaz and Outta this World for JLS. He is featured on Cheryl Cole's second album, Messy Little Raindrops, on the song Better To Lie. He is the executive producer of Musiq Soulchild's 2011 release of "musiqinthemagiq" and co-wrote "Anything", "SayIDo", "Silver & Gold", "WaitingStill" and "BackToWhere".[3]

In 2010, August secured a publishing deal with Sony/ATV[1] as well as an admin society deal with BMI.[4] He is also signed with Island Def Jam Records.[4]

In October 2011, August released his first single "Here Comes Trouble" featuring Busta Rhymes on Alpine Music Group/Island DefJam.[5] He also released his promo mixtape "Too Big To Fail" online.[6]

Rigo produced and featured on YouTube rapper D-Pryde's mixtapes "Once Again" (2012) and "Mars" (2011), as well as D-Pryde's first EP Canal&Richvale (2013)

On September 18th, 2015, August Rigo released the Japanese version of his album "The Fall Out" on Manhattan Records in Japan.[7] "The Fall Out" was released independently on Rigo's label "Summerchild Records" in Canada on November 6th, 2015.[8] The album was nominated for a Juno Award for Best R&B/Soul Recording.[9]

In February 2020, prior to the release of "Map Of The Soul: 7" album by BTS, Black Swan was pre-released single before the release of the said album. August Rigo and Vince Nantes co-wrote it, now, Black Swan, a b-side track from the album has now 104 #1's on iTunes surpassing the album's leading track "ON" with 93 #1's and surpassing Adele's "Hello" with 102 #1's and BTS is the 2nd Artist to achieved it.

Discography

Singles written

• 2010: "Solo" (Iyaz)
• 2010: "Change Positions" (Pleasure P)
• 2010: "Up & Running" (Jessica Jarrell)
• 2011: "Gotta Be You" (One Direction)
• 2011: "Party All Night (Sleep All Day)" (Sean Kingston)
• 2011: "Anything" (Musiq Soulchild)
• 2015: "Back To Sleep" (Chris Brown)
• 2018: "1,2,3" (NCT Dream)
• 2019: "Betcha" (Baekhyun)
• 2020: "Black Swan" (BTS)
• 2020: "On" (BTS)
• 2021: "Anticipation" (Leanne and Naara)
• 2022: "Hot" (Seventeen)
• 2022: "Flying High [id]" (JKT48)

Songs written

• 2010

Justin Bieber – My World 2.0

• 3. "Stuck in the Moment"
• 4. "U Smile"
• 11. "Kiss and Tell" (iTunes bonus track)"

Iyaz – Replay

• • 2. "Solo"

JLS – Outta This World

• 3. "Outta This World"
• 5. "Work"
• 6. "I Know What She Like"
• 11. "Love at War"

Girlicious – Rebuilt

• 5. "Unlearn Me"
• 9. "Over You

Cheryl Cole – Messy Little Raindrops

• 9. "Better to Lie"

D-Pryde - "MARS"

• 13. '"Big Shot"
• 2011

Mindless Behavior – Number 1 Girl

• 3. "Future"

Musiq Soulchild – MusiqInTheMagiq

• 1. "Anything"
• 3. "Sayido"
• 5. "Silver&Gold"
• 6. "WaitingStill"
• 7. "Backtowhere"
• 13. "Clumsylove" (iTunes bonus track)
• 2014

Jesse McCartney – Have It All

• 3. "The Writer"
• 2015

Chris Brown – Royalty

• 1. "Back To Sleep"
• 2017

Kehlani - SweetSexySavage

• 2. Keep On
• 2017

Chris Brown - Heartbreak on a Full Moon

• 27. Tough Love

References

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