Miguel

Miguel
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It's a "Sure Thing" you'll get hooked on the R&B sounds of Miguel. Working with some of the best in the biz, he's becoming a big blip on the radar. To prove his skills he gives us a fun, off-the-cuff freestyle. Hosted by Oliver Trevena.
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Give me give me. See, I wish there was like a little closet or a cupboard that you could just stick a girl in and then come back to it. It's like a refrigerator. Come back to it. That's amazing. Yeah. And it doesn't have to be cold though. Yeah, because then they have to thaw out.
I'm Oliver Tvena here at the Young Hollywood Studio with this bundle of energy. Miguel, look at him. Funky and look, he's just this. Oh, this. I didn't get the memo. I would have dressed up more.
Pretty much. Yeah.
I love it. I love it. I like this what what's this bling thing?
Um this is uh um I don't know what this is called. You just got It's kind of cool. It's kind of. So, I put it on today.
It looks very expensive.
It's not.
Okay. In that case, I won't steal it.
There you go. You can keep it.
Thank you. And then you've got your uh your other single coming out. Sure thing. That's actually the song that got me signed.
Yeah, on MySpace you put it up, didn't you?
Yeah, pretty much, yeah. 8 million views or something. This guy knows everything.
Yeah, I know everything. It's awesome.
Yes. Okay. Just a wealth of knowledge. Thank you. Nice putting out. My mom My mom really proud about that comment. Mom, he's smart. Good job. Yeah.
Yeah, thanks.
His new album, All I Want Is You. All the mama out right now. Yes. Yes.
Yeah, I'm really excited about it, too.
So you should be. Yeah. So you should be. Actually no. I'm not.
Why not?
I am. I'm just kidding. This guy won't stop playing. Um and it was wrote about a girl, wasn't it? That you lost. You decided to take a break and then you wanted to win her back.
Pretty much. I you know, I don't know if you've ever been there but, you know, been with someone really special and you stay with them for a while.
Did you get her back?
No, I haven't. It just hasn't been the right time still. It's still timing.
See, I wish there was like a little closet or a cupboard that you could just stick a girl in. And then come back. It's like a refrigerator. And then come back to it. Yeah. A girl refrigerator. Yeah. I need to get one. But it doesn't have to be cold though. It doesn't. I want to get them back like normal room temperature. All relationship. Ready to go.
Yeah, because then they have to thaw out.
Yeah. So actually your story going on to that is quite quite amazing, isn't it? I mean. Started off as a pool boy.
Pretty much. Cleaning the pool and all that.
Yeah, I did. Actually I did. I I saw you at the bank face money once. Yeah. Oh my God. You're the guy that stole the money from me. Well, you actually stole 50 from me and that's why you got fired. You are on point. This guy is awesome.
I put this song out on on the internet, on MySpace, called Sure Thing. It got a lot of attention. It ended up making it to the ears of Mark Pitts who signed me at Jive, or By Storm Jive anyways. And um, I mean, here we are. It's been it's been like two years, you know, since I've been signed.
And you you seem to love keeping busy cuz you're obviously the songwriter and you're kind of producing and you're doing all that. Yeah. And then I read that you still want to go into acting and that. Is that right?
Absolutely. Absolutely. Taking over the world. Um, one One step at a time.
Step at a time. One day at a time. Yeah. Love that. Is that is that the same?
Yes. Or either one of them work. That's why I covered my back with both of them.
Awesome. Yeah. I need to learn how to do that. See how I did that. See how I did that. And you got a guitar named Scarlet.
Yeah, I do.
Is that after Scarlett Johansson?
Yeah, kind of is. She's a hottie. I have three really big celebrity crushes, you know, three three really big. There's Scarlet. It's um I don't know why Scarlett's always gonna be like the hottest chick to me, Scarlett. And um, she's Prego now. But um, Natalie Portman.
Pregnant. So I told you it was Prego.
Yeah. Prego. I knew that. Exactly. Hip. You gotta get with it. So I am. Catch up, buddy.
We got the Grammys coming up. You nominated. Yeah, nominated writer parent. Best song right? For uh, Jaheim's Find My Way Back. Yeah, Urban song. And you were freestyling earlier. Show us some freestyling. I'll give you a subject.
Okay, give me a subject.
Oliver. Oliver.
Wow. Can you please give me more porridge, baby. I really want some more porridge, baby. Cause I'm really hungry and I need some food. Please could you give it to me? I'm no good, cause I really really want some porridge, baby.
Oliver Twist. I know, I got it straight away. Hello, get familiar. He wanted to eat. Yeah, that's the model of that. He just wanted to eat. Oliver Twist. Give him some porridge. That's right. Give him some porridge. Yeah, just a little bit of porridge or oatmeal. Or whatever. That that works. Same sort of thing. Cream of Wheat is cool, too. Same sort of thing. Just a little bit of. I love that. I've got my own song. This has been like the best day ever. Yes. And on that note, I'm going to wrap it up because I don't see where we can go from here. I don't know. I don't know. Brilliant. Thanks for coming in. It's amazing.
Thanks, bro.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Miguel
Featured artist and interviewee
- Oliver Trevena
Host of the interview
- Mark Pitts
Signed Miguel to Jive/By Storm
- Scarlett Johansson
Mentioned as Miguel's celebrity crush
- Natalie Portman
Mentioned as Miguel's celebrity crush
- Jaheim
Artist whose song Miguel was nominated for a Grammy for
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