Gloriana - Grammy Nominated
By any measure, Gloriana has become one of country music’s hottest young artists. Critics have raved about their sound, with Billboard calling them “a sonic delight” and People predicting they are “destined for glory.” Their peers have embraced them, with Taylor Swift calling on the four-member group to open her Fearless 2009 tour, and Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, LeAnn Rimes and the Zac Brown Band all choosing them for opening slots this year. In addition, they have appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Access Hollywood and Sirius/XM, to name a few. On the cusp of the band’s Top 10 debut single “Wild At Heart,” they also won the fan-voted “Nationwide On Your Side Award” at the 2009 CMT Awards.
The ultimate key to any artist’s success lies with the fans, and it’s the fans who have made Gloriana one of 2009’s hottest new artists in country music and the Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2009
American Music Awards in November. Gloriana’s self-titled Emblem Music Group/Warner Bros. Records debut premiered at #3 on Billboard’s Top 200 and at #2 on the Billboard Country Album Chart. The album had the best first-week sales of any new country artist in 2009, and “Wild At Heart”
is the best-selling song by a new country artist in 2009, selling over
375,000 copies to date. The breadth and diversity of their appeal can be
seen in the fact that they have appeared both on the Grand Ole Opry and
in the pages of several magazines aimed at teens, with Rachel and
Cheyenne appearing on the cover of Justine magazine.
Tom Gossin, Mike Gossin, Rachel Reinert and Cheyenne Kimball perfectly
captured the soaring four-part harmonies that have led to comparisons
with the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac and gave fans a taste for the sheer
excitement Gloriana brings to songs whether on stage or in the studio.
The 13-track album was produced by Grammy Award-winner and Emblem Music
Group label owner Matt Serletic (Rob Thomas, Willie Nelson, Aerosmith),
and mixed by Justin Niebank (Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts) and Chris
Lord-Alge (Faith Hill, Tim McGraw). It reflects both the sheer talent of
the foursome and the level of commitment they have brought to making
every note count.
That talent and that commitment have been winning Gloriana supporters
virtually since the beginning. The band got its start in the winter of
2007, when brothers Tom and Mike, who had moved to Nashville after
sweating it out in clubs in North Carolina, discovered Rachel.
“We had never combined our duo with a female voice before,” says Mike,
“but singing with her gave us that high harmony and opened us up to
something new.”
It wasn’t long after seeing the group perform at 3rd and Lindsley that
Cheyenne fell in love with Gloriana. “When I saw them perform for the
first time, it renewed my passion for music,” said Cheyenne. So
immediately after the show, she asked the trio if she could get together
with them and jam. When they did, it was magic.
“The three of us definitely felt we had something special,” says Rachel,
“but when Cheyenne came into the picture, the four-part harmony
completed us. Her skills on the mandolin, combined with the guys’
guitar talent helped us to replicate the group’s live sound. It felt
complete.”
From that point on, commitment was everything. ”We spent the next six
months getting our songs and our live sound together,” says Tom. “We
accomplished a lot, working non-stop, playing shows, making sure we were
tight and ready to go.”
The band sent a demo to Emblem Music Group, an evolution of Melisma
Records, Serletic’s Diamond and multi-Platinum award-winning label, with
over 50 million album sales to its credit.
An intense creative process got underway. “Emblem helped to introduce us
to some of the best that Nashville has to offer,” says Rachel. In the
early stages of the album’s development, Serletic began writing with one
of Nashville’s finest songwriters, Jeffrey Steele (Rascal Flatts, Trace
Adkins, Tim McGraw, etc.) and co-wrote the group’s debut single “Wild At
Heart” with Josh Kear and Stephanie Bentley. At the same time, Gloriana
was collaborating with a talented array of Nashville songwriters
including Trey Bruce, Kyle Cook, Ben Glover, Chuck Jones, Kevin Kadish,
Wayne Kirkpatrick, and Danny Myrick.
The band members moved in together and secluded themselves to begin
making their mark on the songs. “We spent an intense month putting our
stamp on the songs,” says Tom. “In our minds it’s critical; it’s what
makes the music authentic, heartfelt and true.”
One at a time, they worked up songs, and performed them before the best
critics that any artist has…the fans.
“Playing for a live audience helped us to know what worked and what
didn’t work,” said Cheyenne. “It really was valuable to do that before
entering the studio.”
“By the time we went into the studio we knew exactly what we were doing
and how we wanted the songs to sound,” adds Rachel. “Guess you could say
that the fans helped us make this record.”
That sense of assurance and the hard work they put in are evident in
every track of their debut CD. The feels vary from “The Way It Goes” and
the second radio single, “How Far Do You Wanna Go?,” which display the
four-part harmonies, energy and big sound that make the group so
exciting on stage, to “Lead Me On” and “All The Things (That Mean The
Most),” songs whose passion and intimacy are undeniable.
“I know how much music has impacted all of our lives,” said Tom. “It
connects us all, it moves us and it can change a person,” added Mike.
“We hope that our music will do that for others for a long time to
come.”
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