Tina Parol
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Tina Parol is a singer/songwriter from New York
signed to Universal Motown Records
. Her first single "Who's Got Your Money" was released on April 7, 2009, on iTunes. It was released for radio airplay on May 19, 2009, and reached #36 on the Billboard Pop 100 Airplay charts.
and upstate NY in the Buffalo
area. She graduated from Sleepy Hollow High School in 2006. She wrote her first song at the age of 11, titled "Gypsy Woman". At the age of 13, she decided to become a professional songwriter and by 15, set her sights on becoming a recording artist as well. Parol studied record engineering at New York
University's Clive Davis Department before dropping out to record her debut album for Universal Motown Records
. Aside from her artist career, Parol is also an active songwriter, having written the international B-Side "Rock Boy" (also the B-Side to "If U Seek Amy") for Britney Spears
album Circus
. She collaborated with Nathaniel "Danja" Hills and Marcella "Ms. Lago" Araica on the song, both of whom are her close friends and frequent collaborators. Parol co-produced her first single "Who's Got Your Money".
Parol cites artists such as Shirley Manson
, Steven Tyler
, Pat Benatar
, Chrissie Hynde
, Joan Jett
and Debbie Harry
as her biggest influences. Tina's other major musical influences are The Police
, The Pretenders
, The Clash
, Queen
, The Ramones, Green Day
, The Foo Fighters, Bob Marley
and Roy Orbison
. Critics have compared her to Avril Lavigne
and Pink.
Parol also designs her own clothing and was close to attending Pratt Institute
to study Fashion Design. Her favorite fashion designers are Betsey Johnson
, Vivienne Westwood
and Patricia Field
.
Tina Parol's debut album (not yet released) is called Shrinking Violet. Producers who worked on Shrinking Violet include Matt Mahaffey
, S*A*M & Sluggo, KNS, Mike Shimshack, Kyle Kelso, Shep Goodman and Parol herself. She is currently working on new music as well as writing for others in all genres from hip hop and pop to country.
Parol's debut digital iTunes-only EP, Bite My Tongue, was released on October 20, 2009.
Parol's music has had several appearances in film and television. Her fist single "Who's Got Your Money" was placed in the popular MTV
hit series The City
as well as in CW
’s Melrose Place
; "Hold Onto Your Heart" was used in Touchstone Pictures
' When in Rome, a feature film starring Kristen Bell
and Josh Duhamel
, and was also used in the film's soundtrack alongside songs by Katy Perry
and Jason Mraz
; "What Else Do I Need" and "I'm Alive" were both used in the promos as well as in the actual Drop Dead Diva
television series (Lifetime); "I'm Alive" was also used in Fox
's So You Think You Can Dance; and "Crazy" was used in the promos and advertisements for Fox’s new series titled Brothers
.
, The Audition
, Cash Cash
, Friday Night Boys, Kelsey and the Chaos, Mercy Mercedes and Forever the Sickest Kids
! She will also be performing at the 98 PXY Summer Jam Concert in Rochester, NY with artists such as Flo Rida
and Boys Like Girls
.
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
signed to Universal Motown Records
Universal Motown Records
Universal Motown Records was a record label that operated as a division of Universal Motown Republic Group. It was the contemporary incarnation of the legendary Motown Records label, and the "urban" half of UMRG, although there was some rock artists on the label as well.Changes were made at...
. Her first single "Who's Got Your Money" was released on April 7, 2009, on iTunes. It was released for radio airplay on May 19, 2009, and reached #36 on the Billboard Pop 100 Airplay charts.
Biography
Tina Annetta Parol (born Tina Annetta Borusowski; she legally took her mother's name as a young girl) grew up a first generation American daughter of Polish immigrants. She moved a lot as a child, having lived in Westchester County, New JerseyNew Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
and upstate NY in the Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
area. She graduated from Sleepy Hollow High School in 2006. She wrote her first song at the age of 11, titled "Gypsy Woman". At the age of 13, she decided to become a professional songwriter and by 15, set her sights on becoming a recording artist as well. Parol studied record engineering at New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
University's Clive Davis Department before dropping out to record her debut album for Universal Motown Records
Universal Motown Records
Universal Motown Records was a record label that operated as a division of Universal Motown Republic Group. It was the contemporary incarnation of the legendary Motown Records label, and the "urban" half of UMRG, although there was some rock artists on the label as well.Changes were made at...
. Aside from her artist career, Parol is also an active songwriter, having written the international B-Side "Rock Boy" (also the B-Side to "If U Seek Amy") for Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
album Circus
Circus
A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
. She collaborated with Nathaniel "Danja" Hills and Marcella "Ms. Lago" Araica on the song, both of whom are her close friends and frequent collaborators. Parol co-produced her first single "Who's Got Your Money".
Parol cites artists such as Shirley Manson
Shirley Manson
Shirley Anne Manson is a Scottish recording artist and actress, best known internationally as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. For much of her international career Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh to the United States to record with Garbage but now lives and...
, Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the frontman and lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'", due to his high screams...
, Pat Benatar
Pat Benatar
Pat Benatar is an American singer and four-time Grammy winner. She had considerable commercial success particularly in the United States...
, Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde
Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde is an US musician best known as the leader of the rock/new wave band the Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history.-Early life and career:Hynde is the daughter of a part-time...
, Joan Jett
Joan Jett
Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...
and Debbie Harry
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...
as her biggest influences. Tina's other major musical influences are The Police
The Police
The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For the vast majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland...
, The Pretenders
The Pretenders
The Pretenders are an English rock band formed in Hereford, England in March 1978. The original band consisted of initiator and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde , James Honeyman-Scott , Pete Farndon , and Martin Chambers...
, The Clash
The Clash
The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...
, Queen
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
, The Ramones, Green Day
Green Day
Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool...
, The Foo Fighters, Bob Marley
Bob Marley
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
and Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
. Critics have compared her to Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne
Avril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, but spent most of her youth in the small town of Napanee. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain; by 16, she had signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records worth more...
and Pink.
Parol also designs her own clothing and was close to attending Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...
to study Fashion Design. Her favorite fashion designers are Betsey Johnson
Betsey Johnson
Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished...
, Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.-Early life:...
and Patricia Field
Patricia Field
Patricia Field is an American costume designer, stylist and fashion designer.-Life and career:Field was born in 1941 in New York City to Greek and Armenian parents, who emigrated from Lesvos, Greece. She was raised in Astoria, Queens and has claimed credit for inventing the modern legging for...
.
Tina Parol's debut album (not yet released) is called Shrinking Violet. Producers who worked on Shrinking Violet include Matt Mahaffey
Matt Mahaffey
Matt Mahaffey is an American multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and recording engineer best known for his band Self.-Personal:Matt grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee and was involved with music from a young age...
, S*A*M & Sluggo, KNS, Mike Shimshack, Kyle Kelso, Shep Goodman and Parol herself. She is currently working on new music as well as writing for others in all genres from hip hop and pop to country.
Parol's debut digital iTunes-only EP, Bite My Tongue, was released on October 20, 2009.
Parol's music has had several appearances in film and television. Her fist single "Who's Got Your Money" was placed in the popular MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
hit series The City
The City (MTV series)
The City is an MTV reality television series. The first spin-off of MTV's, The Hills, it follows one of the show's former cast members, Whitney Port, as she moves to New York City to work for fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg. The program premiered on December 29, 2008 and concluded its first...
as well as in CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
’s Melrose Place
Melrose Place (2009 TV series)
Melrose Place is an American television series broadcast on The CW Television Network from September 8, 2009 to April 13, 2010. The fifth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise, it is an updated version of the 1990s Fox prime time drama of the same name, featuring a group of young adults...
; "Hold Onto Your Heart" was used in Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures is an American film production label and is one of several film labels of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. Established in 1984, its releases typically feature more mature themes and darker tones than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.Touchstone...
' When in Rome, a feature film starring Kristen Bell
Kristen Bell
Kristen Anne Bell is an American actress. Although her first film role was an uncredited appearance in Polish Wedding, Bell previously acted in stage and musical productions. In 2001, she made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...
and Josh Duhamel
Josh Duhamel
Joshua David "Josh" Duhamel is an American actor and former fashion model. He first achieved acting success in 1999 as Leo du Pres on ABC's All My Children and later as the chief of security, Danny McCoy, on NBC's Las Vegas...
, and was also used in the film's soundtrack alongside songs by Katy Perry
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...
and Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz
Jason Thomas Mraz , also known as Mr. AZ and Mr. Raz, is an American singer-songwriter. Mraz released his debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy ", in 2002, but it was not until the release of his second album, "Mr. A-Z", in 2005, that Mraz achieved...
; "What Else Do I Need" and "I'm Alive" were both used in the promos as well as in the actual Drop Dead Diva
Drop Dead Diva
Drop Dead Diva is an American legal comedy-drama/fantasy television series that debuted on Lifetime on July 12, 2009. The hour-long series, which was created by Josh Berman, is produced by Sony Pictures Television...
television series (Lifetime); "I'm Alive" was also used in Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
's So You Think You Can Dance; and "Crazy" was used in the promos and advertisements for Fox’s new series titled Brothers
Brothers (TV series)
Brothers is an American television sitcom that originally aired on the cable network Showtime from July 13, 1984 to July 25, 1989, totaling 115 episodes. It was produced by Gary Nardino Productions, in association with two separate divisions of Paramount; first by the Paramount Video division and...
.
Tours
Parol is joining The Rockin' Rodeo Tour with, White Tie Affair, A Rocket to the MoonA Rocket to the Moon
A Rocket to the Moon is an American rock band. The band was founded during 2006 in Braintree, Massachusetts by Nick Santino, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist...
, The Audition
The Audition (band)
The Audition is a pop/rock band from Chicago, Illinois. The band is composed of singer Danny Stevens, drummer Ryan O'Connor, guitarists Jimmy Lopez and Timmy Klepek and bassist Joe Lussa and are based in Detroit, Michigan. The band's first release was a six track EP entitled All In Your Head...
, Cash Cash
Cash Cash
Cash Cash is an American band from Roseland, New Jersey.Cash Cash consists of Jean Paul Makhlouf, Alexander Luke Makhlouf, Sam Frisch, and Anthony Villacari.-History:...
, Friday Night Boys, Kelsey and the Chaos, Mercy Mercedes and Forever the Sickest Kids
Forever the Sickest Kids
Forever the Sickest Kids is an American pop punk band from Dallas, Texas, who have yet to be signed to a new label after the closure of Universal Motown Records. In issue 228 of Alternative Press, the group was named the number one underground band in the "22 Best Underground Bands". Their first...
! She will also be performing at the 98 PXY Summer Jam Concert in Rochester, NY with artists such as Flo Rida
Flo Rida
Tramar Dillard , better known by his stage name Flo Rida , is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He released his debut album, Mail on Sunday, in March 2008. His debut single "Low", featuring T-Pain, was a #1 hit for ten weeks in United States in early 2008. Two other singles resulted from...
and Boys Like Girls
Boys Like Girls
Boys Like Girls is an American rock band from Massachusetts. Formed in 2005, the group gained mainstream recognition when it released its self-titled debut album. Boys Like Girls was the co-headliner with Good Charlotte for the Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour 2008 that toured across the United...
.
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
Billboard Hot Pop Songs | US AC Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
US Adult Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Adult Top 40 is a variation on the United States Billboard charts... |
CAN Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007... |
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| 2009 | "Who's Got Your Money" | — | 36 | — | — | — | Shrinking Violet |
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| "—" denotes the single didn't chart. | |||||||||