Kesha’s Story
Posted on October 10, 2010Kesha Rose Sebert Ke$ha, is an American singer–songwriter. Although she began her music career in 2006, her breakthrough only came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida‘s number one single, “Right Round.” Sebert’s debut single, “Tik Tok” was later released in October 2009, preceding the release of her debut album, Animal, in 2010.
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Sebert was born in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles to a single parent. Her mother, Pebe Sebert, also a singer-songwriter, was struggling to get by and support Kesha and her older brother at the time, she would often look after then infant Kesha onstage while performing Pebe moved the family to Nashville in 1991 after securing a publishing deal, and Kesha spent the rest of her early years attending a music school in the neighboring countryside. Pebe often brought Kesha along to recording studios and encouraged her to sing, Kesha was exposed to the music of many country music artists while learning to write songs. The Sebert family was featured in an episode of The Simple Life, as the host family, which led to an incident later where Sebert vomited in Paris Hilton‘s closet. At the age of seventeen she dropped out of Brentwood High School in Nashville to return to Los Angeles and pursue a music career. |
She decided that she wanted Prince to produce her music, so she found and snuck into his Beverly Hills home. Once she was discovered, she was promptly thrown out, but not before she dropped off her demo with Prince himself. Sebert survived on low income and few gigs while pursuing her career at first,moonlighting as a waitress to make ends eet while furthering her music career in studios with different producers. It was then that she met Dr. Luke that he contacted her with Max Martin and began a working relationship with her immediately.
Between 2006 and 2009, Sebert’s music appeared in a variety of media, her song “Former Overexposed Blonde” appeared in Degrassi: The Next Generation, while “Backstabber” and “Chain Reaction” were used in The Hills. During this time, she also co-wrote The Veronicas‘ single, “This Love“,Britney Spears’ song “Lace and Leather”and appeared in the video for Katy Perry‘s single, “I Kissed a Girl” Her appearance in the video arose due to her being friends with Perry, they met frequently as aspiring pop singers in Los Angeles and shared many musical collaborators. . During this time Kesha lived in a shared mansion in Laurel Canyon.
She gained exposure in the mainstream media after being featured on Flo Rida’s single, “Right Round”. The collaboration came about when Flo Rida decided that the song needed a female voice, Sebert was then roped in for the part after being suggested by Dr. Luke, who was producing the song. Flo Rida liked the end result so much that he invited her to sing on another song, “Touch Me”, for his album. Sebert did not collect any money for the gig and also turned down the offer to appear in the video for “Right Round” because she wanted to strike out on her own. Soon after, it was announced that she had signed with RCA Records through Dr. Luke and was working on her debut album, Animal, which is due to be released on January 5, 2010 in the US. It features a cameo appearance by Diddy. Her first single, “Tik Tok”, was released to US radio on October 5, 2009.
On March 27, 2009, she appeared onstage alongside 3OH!3 at one of their concerts at Avalon Hollywood to perform their duet, “My First Kiss”. She also performed at that year’s Lollapalooza as part of the BMI Stage. Sebert’s musical credits in 2009 include work for Teen Cribs, she had previously done background cues for My Super Sweet 16 as well, co-writing the title song for Miley Cyrus‘ The Time of Our Lives EP and appearances on Pitbull and Taio Cruz‘s albums. She also revealed in an interview with DigitalSpy that she had written a song for Rihanna.Sebert has also been a supporting act of Calvin Harris on tour in the UK and has performed with Mickey Avalon on multiple tour dates.
“Tik Tok” made its chart debut on the official New Zealand Singles Chart at number seven on the issue dated October 5, 2009. The following week, it moved up to number one. It held the top spot for a total of five consecutive weeks. The song also charted in Australia where it debuted on the ARIA Charts at number twenty-eight, and reached number one on its third week on the chart.
In Europe, the song debuted at number thirty-eight in Sweden on the issue dated October 23, 2009 and managed to peak at number four.[13] The song debuted at thirty-nine in Denmark and peaked at number six.[14] In Norway, the song debuted at number eleven and peaked at number four. The song also charted in the Flanders region of Belgium, peaking at number twenty-one. In Finland, the song debuted at number sixteen and peaked at number seven.
On the week ending October 24, 2009, “Tik Tok” made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 at number seventy nine, peaked at number five. The song also charted on the Canadian Hot 100 where it debuted at number sixty-seven, and peaked at number one. It debuted on the official UK Singles Chart at number six on digital downloads only.
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