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| Also known as | DX, DAY, Melky & Day |
| Born | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
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Darryl "Day" Pearson is an American record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for writing and producing "It's All About Me", a Mya/Sisqó single that peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "Part Time Lover" (a Top 10 R&B Hit for group H-Town from the 1994 Above the Rim soundtrack), as well as "Trippin' ", a collaboration between Total and Missy Elliott that climbed to #7 on the Hot 100 in 1998.[1][2][3][4][5] As a result, Pearson secured a placement on Billboard's "Hot R&B Producers" 1998 Year-End Chart. [6] Pearson has also produced or written songs for Usher, Beyoncé, and Sam Smith, among others. [7]
Career
Music beginnings, da bassment and Melky & Day
Motivated to enter the music industry in the early 1990s, Pearson began producing demos for friends sending music to record labels in hopes of securing deals. This practice developed into a writing and production partnership with R&B group Jodeci.[8] He relocated to both Teaneck, New Jersey and Rochester, New York to work with DeVante Swing's Swing Mob collective, which evolved into R&B/Hip-hop production team and Elektra Records label imprint Da Bassment Cru with the addition of producer Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley. Over the next 5 years, Pearson would be credited with creating music for various affiliated artists including Missy Elliott (as well as her group Sista), Mary J. Blige, K-Ci & JoJo, Dru Hill, Ginuwine (via an unreleased 1995 debut album for Da Bassment/Elektra), and Timbaland & Magoo, among others. [9][10][11][12] In 1997, Pearson joined forces with singer and songwriter Blandinna Melky Jean from group Melky Sedeck on R&B duo Melky & Day, and released single "I Got A Love Jones For You" for Columbia Records/Sony on the 1997 Love Jones soundtrack alongside duo Refugee Camp All-Stars. The single was a remake of the hit Brighter Side of Darkness single "Love Jones". [13][14] In 1998, Pearson contributed to Mosley's debut single as an artist, "Here We Come" alongside Elliott, Playa, and Magoo for his solo debut album Tim's Bio: Life from da Bassment, which charted on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the UK and Dutch charts. As discussed in a 1998 Timbaland interview for MTV, "Darryl [and I] were messing around in the studio and he was humming the Spider-Man tune, 'Doomp do doomp, doomp do doomp,' so he was doing that, and I was like, 'Do that again,'... [h]e did it, and I sampled his vocals doing that and I put a beat on top of it, and we just rapped to it."[15]
Pearson was also a major player on Mya's eponymous 1998 debut album for University/Interscope Records, producing and/or writing 7 of the 13 tracks that appeared. These included Top 40 single "Movin On" and Top 10 single "It's All About Me".[16][17] Pearson similarly contributed 4 songs to emerging R&B singer Terry Dexter's eponymous 1999 debut album. [18]
MCA record deal and solo ventures
In 1996, Pearson began working closely with ByStorm Entertainment CEO Mark Pitts on the creation and sound formulation of R&B Band Born In August, discussed in-depth in a July 1996 Billboard article.[19] Pearson would produce, arrange vocals, and play all instruments on their debut single "April" released in August, before their completed debut album Timeless Journey was shelved indefinitely by parent label Universal Records. [20]
As reported by Billboard in a February 13, 1999 article, Pearson was scheduled to release his debut solo album (titled Savior's Day) on MCA Records in the summer of 1999, immediately after a May 8 release of lead single "You Should Be With Me" featuring Mya, but the project and single were shelved for undisclosed reasons.[1] Another album track, "I'll Give U All I Got" appeared on several MCA Records promotional CD Samplers sent to radio stations at the time, but remains officially unreleased. His sole release as a solo act remains a rendition of "Silent Night" from 1999's MCA Records Compilation My Christmas Album. [21] MCA executives planned to release Pearson's appearance as a single to various Adult Contemporary radio formats in promotion of the project. [22]
2000-Present: Later career
In 2006, Pearson reunited again with Swing Mob / Bassment producer Mosley and entered his Mosley Music Group camp, contributing to Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds (credited for guitar accompaniments to "SexyBack" and album cut "Sexy Ladies"), Madonna's Hard Candy (guitar credits on "Dance 2Night"), Chris Cornell's 2009 album Scream (various instruments), co-writing "Grown Woman" alongside Mosley for Beyoncé's Pepsi campaign in 2013, and co-writing "Pray" from Sam Smith's 2017 album The Thrill of It All.[23][24][25][26] In 2016, Pearson, alongside greiBO Entertainment co-producer Davis Grei, produced a video using images from Jermaine UniqueEye, Christopher Ervin and others to capture the 2015 Baltimore protests, winning a bronze Telly Award in the "music video" and "social responsibility" categories. [27]
Songwriting, instrumental, and production credits
Credits are courtesy of Tidal and Discogs.
Guest appearances
| Title | Year | Other performer(s) | Album |
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| "I've Got A Love Jones For You" | 1997 | Melky Sedeck, Refugee Camp All-Stars | Love Jones (Soundtrack) |
| "Here We Come"[37] | 1998 | Timbaland & Magoo, Missy Elliott | Tim's Bio: Life from da Bassment |
| "Lady" | 1999 | Melky Sedeck | Sister & Brother |
Full Guitar Projects
| Album | Artist | Year | Label |
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| Diary of a Mad Band | Jodeci | 1993 | Uptown / MCA Records |
| Usher | Usher | 1994 | LaFace / Arista Records |
| 4 All the Sistas Around da World | Sista | 1994 | Swing Mob / Elektra Records |
Unreleased Productions
° Ginuwine - Untitled Shelved 1995/1996 Debut Album (Da Bassment / Elecktra)
- "Lady"
- "Yeah Come On"
- "Rock"
- "Feel It"
- "Come On Baby"
- "Soaking Wet"
- "Straight Like That"
- "One Reason Why"
- "Come Inside"
- "I'm Going To Fall In Love"
° Renee Anderson - Untitled Shelved 1997 Debut Album (Da Bassment / EMI Publishing)
- "Maybe"
- "Makin Love"
Awards and nominations
| Year | Work | Award | Result | Ref |
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| 1994 | ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards | Award-Winning Songs (Part Time Lover / I'm Still In Love With You) | Won | [38] |
| 1999 | ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards | Award-Winning Songs (Movin' On) | Won | [39] |
References
- ^ a b "Day Trippin'". Billboard. February 13, 1999.
- ^ "Upbeat debut album marks promising start for 18-year-old". The Lantern. October 3, 1998.
- ^ "Rob Sheffield on the 98 Best Songs of 1998: Pop's Weirdest Year". Rolling Stone. June 4, 2018.
- ^ "Single Reviews: Mya & Sisqó - "It's All About Me"". SPIN. August 1998.
- ^ "Hot 100 Singles Sales". Billboard. May 28, 1994.
- ^ "Hot R&B Producers". Billboard. December 26, 1998 – January 2, 1999.
- ^ "Darryl Pearson Talks Da Bassment, DeVante Swing, Producing for Jodeci, Mya, Dru Hill & More". YouKnowIGotSoul.com. July 2, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
- ^ "Darryl Pearson Interview". Bring Back Soul Music. July 3, 2020.
- ^ "Da Bassment: Susan Weems (Of Sugah) Pt. 1, New Jack Swing 4 Ever (NJS4E) 5.0". July 2020.
- ^ Powers, Ann (September 19, 1999). "MUSIC; the New Conscience of Pop Music". The New York Times.
- ^ "The show, the afterparty, da bassment". 585 Magazine. December 26, 2018.
- ^ "Full Clip: K-Ci & JoJo Run Down Jodeci's Catalogue, MJB and More". Vibe. December 17, 2010.
- ^ "Singles Reviews & Previews: Refugee Camp AllStars Presents Melky And Day - "I Got A Love Jones For You"". Billboard. April 12, 1997.
- ^ "Refugee Camp All Stars Presents Melky and Day - I Got a Love Jones for You". Discogs.
- ^ "Timbaland Unveils Origin of His Spider-Single". MTV.
- ^ "WBSS Media-Mya".
- ^ "Mya Talks Love of Music History in Industry As Thriving Independent Artist". You Know I Got Soul.
- ^ "Move Over, Mya". Billboard. June 12, 1999. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
- ^ "ByStorm's Born In August Journeys Toward Romance". Billboard. July 13, 1996.
- ^ "Singles Review: Born In August - "April"". Billboard. August 31, 1996.
- ^ https://tidal.com/browse/album/36267566
- ^ "'Christmas Album' Straddles Formats". Billboard. October 16, 1999.
- ^ "Secrets of the Mix Engineers: Jimmy Douglass". Sound On Sound.
- ^ "The Number Ones: Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack"". Stereogum. February 15, 2023.
- ^ "Backstage Pass / Royalty Network 20th Anniversary: How a Song Makes Money Forever". Billboard.
- ^ "Who's Nominated, Who's Not". Hits Daily Double.
- ^ "Greibo Entertainment Wins Telly Award".
- ^ "20 Years Later: Mya's Self-Titled Debut Album, Ranked". Yahoo Entertainment.
- ^ "Singles Review: Mýa - "Movin' On"". Billboard. August 22, 1998.
- ^ "The 50 Best R&B Songs with Rap Features". Complex Networks.
- ^ "20 Years Later: Mya's Self-Titled Debut Album, Ranked - Vibe Magazine". April 20, 2018.
- ^ "Singles Review: Mya - "It's All About Me"". Billboard. April 18, 1998.
- ^ "Throwback Thursday: Mya feat. Sisqo - 'It's All About Me'". ThisIsR&B. June 19, 2014.
- ^ "Singles Review: Total Featuring Missy Elliott - "Trippin'"". Billboard. October 10, 1998.
- ^ "Andre Harrell Goes To Work for Puffy; Shai Takes Indie Route To Realize Its "Destiny"". Billboard. November 14, 1998.
- ^ "Universal Music Publishing Digital Library".
- ^ Fonseca, Anthony J.; Goldsmith, Melissa Ursula Dawn (September 9, 2021). Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre. ISBN 9781440874888.
- ^ "ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Celebration: Congratulations To Our Winners". Billboard. July 1995.
- ^ "You Captured The Rhythm Of Soul". Billboard. June 5, 1999. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
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