Dia Frampton

Dia Leif Frampton (born October 2, 1987), is an American singer-songwriter and was the lead singer of the band, Meg & Dia. She was the runner-up in the inaugural season of The Voice. Early life edit: Dia Frampton attended Dixie High School in St. George, Utah and Shadow Ridge High School in Las Vegas, Nevada; she graduated early by also homeschooling her senior year at the same time attending public school for her junior year in 2005 then moved to Salt Lake City with her sister to further their music career. She cites as influences Modest Mouse, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Joni Mitchell, The Avett Brothers, Rocky Votolato, Ben Folds, Etta James, Death Cab for Cutie, The Cranberries, and Cursive. During live performances, Dia plays percussion instruments, such as the cowbell and tambourine, and occasionally a Casio Privia keyboard. She almost always performs without shoes on. She also does not like to eat anything within two hours of performing. Her father is an American of English and Dutch ancestry and her mother is Korean, originally from Seoul. Dia often recorded a "song diary," an impromptu recorded song, on her MySpace page. She explained, "It was something very raw, and to be honest, something that I was slightly embarrassed to put up because of the quality but I did anyways, for any of our listeners who would care to hear something not hot off the production belt, but something more organic and 'home made.' It made me feel better to share my feelings with people who could connect, and I think that is what happened with many." Meg & Dia edit: Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_%26_Dia This section requires expansion. (January 2013) The Voice edit: Dia Frampton was a contestant (and eventual runner-up) on the first season of The Voice on NBC, introduced as a children's story author. Frampton stated that she had originally joined the show only with the intention of promoting Cocoon and had not expected that she would make it that far in the competition. She was selected to be on the team of coach Blake Shelton, who stated, "when I heard your voice, I started to smile." Frampton advanced through the show's quarter-finals and semi-finales after renditions of "Heartless" and "Losing My Religion". In the season finale, she sang "Inventing Shadows", an original song written by Fraser T Smith. Notably, the aforementioned singles were the highest charting iTunes digital songs by any contestant on The Voice during its respective voting eligibility period, with "Inventing Shadows" topping the charts at No. 1. Following the season finale on June 29, 2011, "Inventing Shadows" debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 137,000 downloads sold. As of July 7, 2011 Frampton's The Voice digital releases have sold 480,000 downloads. Frampton subsequently won the title of Entertainment Weekly's 2011 'Favourite Reality Show Personality' over Michael Stagliano from the second season of Bachelor Pad. Performances on The Voice edit: Show Song Original Artist Order Result Blind Audition "Bubbly" Colbie Caillat 16 Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton turned, Frampton joined Blake Shelton's Team Battle Round "You Can't Hurry Love" (vs. Serabee) The Supremes N/A Saved by coach Quarter-Finals (Week 1) "Heartless" Kanye West 4 Safe (Public Vote) Semi-Finals "Losing My Religion" R.E.M. 3 Safe (106 Points) Finals "I Won't Back Down" (w/ Blake Shelton) Tom Petty 2 1st Runner-Up "Inventing Shadows" (original) Dia Frampton 5 Finals (Result Show) "The House That Built Me" (w/ Miranda Lambert) Miranda Lambert 4 2011-2013: Red and embarking on solo career edit: "The Broken Ones" (2011) Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player., You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. A 21 second sample of Frampton's debut single, "The Broken Ones". Problems listening to this file? See media help. Frampton's single, "The Broken Ones," was released on November 15, 2011, and her solo album, Red, was released on December 6, 2011. Frampton wrote (or co-wrote) every song on Red. Notable co-written songs include "Billy the Kid", which she wrote with Mark Foster and Isom Innis, lead singer and keyboard player for Foster the People respectively, "Hearts out to Dry," which she wrote with her sister, Meg, and "Bullseye," which she wrote with Isabella Summers, the keyboard player for Florence and the Machine. She was the opening act for her coach, Blake Shelton, on his Well Lit & Ampified tour. Shelton insisted that she had earned her spot on his tour and he was not doing her any favors. She later was a supporting act for The Fray in their sold out US tour in the Midwest and the West Coast from April to May 2011. Her own solo US tour took place from February to July 2012, with Canadian singer/songwriter Andrew Allen as her opening act. She covered the Korean song, "Lonely" by 2NE1, as an acoustic ballad in English for allkpop.com to promote her later concert in Seoul, Korea. On 30 December 2012, she sang a solo of "Heartless" and performed "We Are The Champions" with the final 8 of The Voice of Vietnam. She also held a small tour in January 2013, staging concerts across Southeast Asian countries Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Second studio album (2013-present) edit: She is currently working on the follow-up to her debut solo album, and also on her first novel. I'm trying to go for a more organic sound, less electronic. I want it to sound modern but not covered in synths. I'd like more live drum rather than drum machines. -- Dia Frampton, Listen up to Dia's Voice (describing her next album), The Straits Times It's about a guy who died and he is in hell and he is waiting for his wife to join him but she is in heaven, so he is trying to find a way to get to her. It's a dark romance. -- Dia Frampton, Listen up to Dia's Voice (describing her novel in progress), The Straits Times In 2013, Dia was again featured on The Summer Set's new album, "Legendary." She is featured on a track called "Heart On the Floor." The album was released on April 16, 2013.

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