VFactory
Encyclopedia
V Factory is an American Pop
/R&B
/Urban
boy band
produced by former Pop artist Tommy Page
who is now a VP of A&R for Warner Brothers Records. The members have yet to confirm what the "V" stands for. Wesley Quinn, in an interview with Popstar! Magazine
, stated that "the V is a hidden meaning between the five of us." He also states that the meaning will come out like the FedEx
box in the movie, Cast Away
, which stars Tom Hanks
.
, including "Round and Round," "She Bad" (featuring E-40
), and the namesake, "These Are The Days," also available for purchase at any of their shows. On January 12, 2009, it was released in the UK and other countries.
, Mark and James, and NLT
. The tour ran from May 1, 2008 to May 26, 2008.
", was released to iTunes
on February 3, 2009
. It is currently on Radio Disney
, premiering on Music Mailbag. Its peak on mainstream radio so far is #37 and #70 on the Pop 100
. The song is produced by Swedish production team, twin
, and is written by David Jassy
and Darin. "Love Struck" was released on iTunes in the UK and other countries on 9 September .
The "Love Struck" music video was released officially on the 22nd of May, 2009 on AOL Music.
Track listing:
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
/R&B
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...
/Urban
Urban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
boy band
Boy band
A boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...
produced by former Pop artist Tommy Page
Tommy Page
Tommy Page is an American singer, best known for his 1990 hit single, "I'll Be Your Everything."-Career:...
who is now a VP of A&R for Warner Brothers Records. The members have yet to confirm what the "V" stands for. Wesley Quinn, in an interview with Popstar! Magazine
Popstar! Magazine
Popstar! Magazine is a worldwide released teen magazine featuring news stories on celebrities.-History:Popstar! Magazine is a nationally recognized teen-entertainment magazine for kids ages 10 to 16. It was founded by editor in chief Matthew Rettenmund and was first published on October 15, 1998,...
, stated that "the V is a hidden meaning between the five of us." He also states that the meaning will come out like the FedEx
FedEx
FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee...
box in the movie, Cast Away
Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific. The film depicts his successful attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo, as well as his...
, which stars Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
.
Members
- Jared Murillo (born August 6, 1988) from Honolulu, HawaiiHonolulu, HawaiiHonolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...
. He is most known for being Ashley TisdaleAshley TisdaleAshley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series...
's ex-boyfriend. Jared is known for his appearances as a featured dancer in High School MusicalHigh School MusicalHigh School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...
, its nationwide tour, and High School Musical 2, for which he also earned an Assistant Choreographer credit by creating the dance number for "I Don’t Dance". He was also the dance partner of Lacey SchwimmerLacey SchwimmerLacey-Mae Schwimmer is an American competitive ballroom dancer, singer, and the winner of multiple youth championships. She is best known as the fourth place finalist of the third season of So You Think You Can Dance...
. He is currently one of the professional dancers in the UK's Strictly Come DancingStrictly Come DancingStrictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...
. (2010)
- Nick "Nicky T" Teti (born July 22, 1983) from Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
. He got his start doing musical theater in high school. Then taught himself to dance in college. He was a member of the dance crew Quest CrewQuest CrewQuest Crew is an American hip-hop dance crew from Los Angeles, California who were declared winners of the third season of America's Best Dance Crew...
.
- Nathaniel Flatt (born September 18, 1981) from Cookeville, TennesseeCookeville, TennesseeCookeville is a city in Putnam County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 23,923 at the 2000 census. of Cookeville's population was 30,435, and the combined total of those living in Cookeville's in 2010 was 65,014. It is the county seat of Putnam County and home to Tennessee...
. He launched his acting career in local plays and eventually found his way into musical theater, including a stage production of Disney's AladdinAladdinAladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....
at Disney California Adventure.
Ex-members
- Asher BookAsher BookAsher Monroe Book is an American dancer, singer and actor.-Early life:Born in Arlington, Virginia in 1988, Asher started working professionally when he was seven years old...
Asher was the lead singer, but in October 2010 he wrote on his official twitter: "I love you sooo much vfactory fans! U have been amazing but I'm no longer with the group! It's been a ride and yes we are all still friends!"
- Wesley Quinn (born January 16, 1990) from Greenville, South CarolinaGreenville, South Carolina-Law and government:The city of Greenville adopted the Council-Manager form of municipal government in 1976.-History:The area was part of the Cherokee Nation's protected grounds after the Treaty of 1763, which ended the French and Indian War. No White man was allowed to enter, though some families...
. He was bitten with the performing bug at age 6 after attending his younger sister’s dance recital. He was a background dancer for Ashley Tisdale with fellow member, Jared Murillo. Wesley has performed numerous times as a background dancer in the FOX show GLEEGlee (TV series)Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
Musical career
On April 29, 2008, (in the US only) These Are The Days EP was released on iTunesITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
, including "Round and Round," "She Bad" (featuring E-40
E-40
Earl Stevens , better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and investor from Vallejo, California. He is also part of the rap group The Click and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. His solo debut album, Federal, was released in November 1992, after The Click's debut...
), and the namesake, "These Are The Days," also available for purchase at any of their shows. On January 12, 2009, it was released in the UK and other countries.
Bandemonium 2008
V Factory performed at the Bandemonium Tour alongside MenudoMenudo (band)
Menudo was a Puerto Rican boy band that was formed in the 1970s by producer Edgardo Díaz, releasing their first album in 1977. The band achieved much success, especially during the 1980s, becoming the most popular Latin American teen musical group of the era....
, Mark and James, and NLT
NLT (band)
NLT was an American boy band whose members were Travis Michael Garland, Kevin McHale, Justin Joseph "JJ" Thorne, and Vahe "V" Sevani. They were discovered by Chris Stokes, who signed them to his TUG Entertainment label in 2006.-History:On March 13, 2007, they released their debut single, "That Girl"...
. The tour ran from May 1, 2008 to May 26, 2008.
Rise to fame
V Factory's first single, "Love StruckLove Struck (song)
"Love Struck" is an electropop song by American boy band V Factory. It is their first official single off their untitled first upcoming album.-Song information:The song was written by David Jassy and Darin Zanyar...
", was released to iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
on February 3, 2009
2009 in music
The following is a list of notable events and releases in 2009 in music. Susan Boyle's album I Dreamed a Dream became the biggest selling album in the world for 2009, selling 8.3 million copies in five weeks; more than any other artist's in the whole year...
. It is currently on Radio Disney
Radio Disney
Radio Disney is a radio network based in Burbank, California and headquartered out of the Disney Channel headquarters on West Alameda Ave., from where it has been based since November 2008. Prior to that, the network was based in Dallas, Texas...
, premiering on Music Mailbag. Its peak on mainstream radio so far is #37 and #70 on the Pop 100
Pop 100
The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...
. The song is produced by Swedish production team, twin
Twin
A twin is one of two offspring produced in the same pregnancy. Twins can either be monozygotic , meaning that they develop from one zygote that splits and forms two embryos, or dizygotic because they develop from two separate eggs that are fertilized by two separate sperm.In contrast, a fetus...
, and is written by David Jassy
David Jassy
David Moses Jassy is a Swedish musician, songwriter and music producer of mixed Gambian and Estonian origin. With Andrés Avellán, he was part of a Swedish R&B hip hop duo, Navigators in the late 1990s. After split up of the group, Jassy went on to writing music and producing a number of...
and Darin. "Love Struck" was released on iTunes in the UK and other countries on 9 September .
The "Love Struck" music video was released officially on the 22nd of May, 2009 on AOL Music.
EPs
- 2008: These Are the Days
Track listing:
- "Round & Round"
- "She Bad" (featuring E-40E-40Earl Stevens , better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and investor from Vallejo, California. He is also part of the rap group The Click and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. His solo debut album, Federal, was released in November 1992, after The Click's debut...
) - "These Are the Days"
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
U.S. Pop Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009... |
CAN Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007... |
SWE Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
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| 2009 | "Love Struck Love Struck (song) "Love Struck" is an electropop song by American boy band V Factory. It is their first official single off their untitled first upcoming album.-Song information:The song was written by David Jassy and Darin Zanyar... " |
— | 70 | 97 | 47 | TBA |
Other songs
- "Get Up (2nd Single)"
- "Lights Camera Action"
- "Fade"
- "Dem Hot Gurlz"
- "In It for the Love"
- "Remember"
- "Supermodel"
- "Doin' It Too"
- "Beautiful Girl"
- "History"
- "Pump It"
Awards / Nominations
- In 2009, V Factory was nominated for StarShine Magazine Music Awards for "Favorite Band/Group". Their debut single "Love Struck" was nominated for "Best Dance Song" in the same awards.