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Angel Mae Taylor is a pop singer-songwriter based out of the Los Angeles area.
Angel Taylor's debut album, entitled Love Travels was released on iTunes on March 31, 2009 through Aware/Columbia Records. An EP titled "Love Travels EP" was released on iTunes in February 2009 prior to the release of Taylor's full debut album featuring several songs from the LP. Her song "Make Me Believe" was offered as the iTunes single of the week during the week of March 30, 2009. Taylor has toured with a variety of artists including Adele, Kate Voegele, Brett Dennen, Brandi Carlile and Gavin DeGraw. Taylor will be supporting artists such as Five For Fighting, Mat Kearney, and Sugar Ray at various concerts during the summer of 2009.
Taylor was also featured as one of VH1's You Oughtta Know: Artists On The Rise in 2010.
Family
Angel Taylor is the sister of Ebony Taylor who appeared briefly on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5.
One of five sisters who had always shared rooms, by age 20 Angel helped her family buy their first house with a room for everyone.
Early career
Angel's recording career began when an email was unknowingly sent out to producer Mikal Blue who has also worked with Colbie Caillat and Brendan James, and this resulted in an invitation to his studio. At Revolver Studios came an impromptu audition to find the answer as to how to download her music onto a CD. Angel Taylor said: "I played two songs, 'Chai' and 'It's Easy,' and he said he wanted to work with me - I told him all I wanted to do was get my music on a CD, and asked him how long that was going to take, and he said, 'Oh no, I want to really work with you...'"
After only a matter of months, Angel Taylor took her first plane trip to the record label studio in New York and bought her first cell phone. After signing with Aware/Columbia Records she was able to move herself, her mother and two of her sisters into their first house. Angel had had no musical school and, only starting writing poetry because of her sister. Angel Taylor: "Ebony started writing poetry when she was 14, I was 13, and I started writing cheeseball stuff like, 'you're awesome, I think you're opossum.' It didn't really get real until a few years later, but I never took a lesson - songs happened by me banging on a piano, playing it by ear, and trying to fit my poetry in. I didn't want to be a musician, I just wanted a fun hobby..."
The Voice
She was a contestant in The Voice, where she picked Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine as her coach. Later in the battle rounds she lost to Katrina Parker therefore losing her chance to perform in the live shows.
