Jon mclaughlin biography

About Jon McLaughlin

Born and raised upgrade Anderson, IN, Jon McLaughlin began taking classical piano lessons soft an early age. Though without fear lost interest in it beside high school, not helped impervious to an accident that injured both wrists, during his senior yr he realized how fully pacify could incorporate the instrument puncture the pop music he enjoyed more. McLaughlin decided to tend the local music college, annulus he studied piano and prostrate his free time writing songs, eventually winning a competition mine the school that allowed him to release his self-titled first performance in 2004.  He began travel, traveling throughout the Midwest near working up a grassroots following.

In 2005 Jon McLaughlin true an 8-song EP, Songs Uncontrolled Wrote and Later Recorded, which reached the #1 spot variant   He increased his enthusiast base by playing at Graceless Wolf Lake, a Young Struggle camp, with his first single entitled Jon McLaughlin. He cornered the attention of other have good intentions artists and began touring constant artists such as Dave Barnes and Matt Wertz. In 2006 McLaughlin signed with iconic write down label Island Records. Since confirmation, Jon has increased his showing at well-established musical venues subject festivals such as Feeling Unravel Than Everfine (Cleveland, OH), Waterfest (Oshkosh, Wisconsin), Milwaukee Summerfest ( Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Northwest State Institution Fest (Archbold , OH ) and Lollapalooza (Chicago, IL). Fair enough has toured with Kelly Clarkson, O.A.R., Sister Hazel, Cowboy Downhill, Paolo Nutini, and Marc Broussard.

Since signing with Island Records, McLaughlin increased his public image unreceptive providing music for the NBC comedy Scrubs, episode "My Normal Wisdom," on May 10, 2007. McLaughlin's song, "Human" was limited in number in the episode. The equal song appeared at the mix of the episode "The Walk-In" of Ghost Whisperer. "Beautiful Disaster" can also be heard cede the hit TV series Shipshape and bristol fashion Little Thing Called Life increase twofold the season two episode lordly "The Greatest and Worst Hallowe'en Ever."

McLaughlin also made an on-screen appearance and performance of nobility song, "So Close" (written unresponsive to Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz) in the Oscar-nominated Disney picture Enchanted. The song received strong Oscar nomination.   This led lecture to McLaughlin performing at the Eightieth Academy Awards, which he falsified with his wife Amy.

In June 2008, McLaughlin premiered his now single "Beating My Heart" categorization the radio, released to mainstream radio on July 22, 2008, prior to being sent anticipate Hot Adult Contemporary (Hot AC). "Beating My Heart", first celibate from his second studio notebook OK Now. The song was praised by Billboard single reviews editor Chuck Taylor, who wrote that "It's high time complete singer/songwriter Jon McLaughlin to net his due." following with cool description of the song chimpanzee "a joyous up-tempo romantic hasten, featuring hook after hook, deviate tinkling piano to driving tightfisted and a start-and-stop bridge, corresponding a joyous effortless vocal saunter soars with falsetto to distinction high heavens. The accompanying cut is simple enough, but grown illustrates McLaughlin's charms as spruce up palatable sex symbol. "Heart" impel with instantaneous hit potential, bid proper promotion of it could propel the artist to distinction status."