Gay Music Chart Awards 2015 - Most Promising Artist Nominees

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It's time to choose the Most Promising Artist of 2015 ! YOU decide what was the best of 2015.

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The nominees are : 

Jaloo
Jaloo is a Brazilian singer. After a promising debut with his first EP in 2014, he finally released this year the music video of "Insight", the lead single of this EP, where we can' t discover his queer influences. Then he released his first album "#1" and his second music video "Ah! Dor!", where is body is deconstructed and reorganised.


Josef Salvat
Josef Salvat is an openly bisexual Australian singer, revealed by the cover of Rihanna's song "Diamonds" which was a big success in France in 2014. He released in 2015 his first album "NightSwim", with two lead singles : "Hustler" with a music video about bisexuality, and "Open Season" which had a pretty success in France and Belgium, and of course in our Gay Music Chart.


Jussie Smollett Jussie Smollett is a 32 years old American singer and actor. He became famous this year for his role of Jamal Lyon, the gay son of a hip-hop record company in TV series "Empire", one of the most successful new show on American TV this year. His character received universal critical acclaim. Kelley L. Carter from BuzzFeed declared that "Being Gay and Black on TV will never be the same." For this role, he song several songs, all published on the official channel of "Empire" on YouTube. As his character with the song "You're So Beautiful" in the episode "The Lyon's Roar" from season 1, Jussie came out publicly as gay on the set of "Ellen". A star is born, both in "Empire" and in the real word.


Mark Feehily Markus Feehily is an Irish singer, famous for being one of the lead singers of the boyband Westlife from 1998 to 2012 with his incredible voice. He's openly gay since 2005. It took him three years after the split of Boyzone to release "Fire", his first solo album, included the singles "Love is a Drug" and "Butterfly". "Fire" reached at number 2 in the Irish chart, and 25 in the UK.


Panthyr
Panthyr, aka Jamie Treadwell, is an American queer artist formerly known as James Panther. He released this year his first single "Desirable" which has been quicly noticed by gay medias. The lyrics critics the quest of body's perfection conveyed by medias, which at first can be toxic with your relationship with yourself, and which at second can exclude those who don't or can't reach this ideal, unfortunately present in the LGBTQ communities because of the medias, but also toxic with your own.


Parson James Parson James is a American singer. His debut career is already successful with the collaboration with Kigo for the clubs song "Stole the show" which was a huge hit in Europe. He also made a collaboration for another track for the club with Audien for the clubs single "Insomnia". "Sinner Like You" is his debut single in solo, and has been already noticed in the Gay Music Chart, even if it hasn't any music video. That's because of its powerful lyrics : it talks about a man who makes his coming out to his parents. Too bad there isn’t a music video yet for this song.


Ryan Amador It's been since 2011 that Ryan Amador, a singer from Los Angeles, uploads music videos. It's in that his single "Define Me" has been noticed with good reviews on several American gay medias. But it's in the year 2015 that his popularity raised in our Gay Music Chart, with his tracks "Stained" and most of all "Spectrum", where he defends all kinds of sexuality. He has just raised funds to publish his first album "(In)Body".


Shamir
Shamir Bailey is a 21 years old gay singer from Las Vegas. After a first EP with positive reviwes in 2014, Shamir released the music video "Call It Off" (2,5 millions views) as part of the 2015 YouTube Music Awards, with puppetts. He released then his first album "Ratchet", with other singles "Darker" and "In For The Kill".


Who Is Fancy Jake Hagood, 24 years old, is an American singer, better known as Who Is Fancy. He released this year his first single "Goodbye", which reached number 98 in Billboard chart in the US. Three music videos were released, with the same script, but with three different characters, including a queer one. At this time, his identity was a mystery for a lot of people because his face didn't appeared in the media or his music video. A part of the mystery was in part revealed with his his second music video, "Boys Like You", where he appears in cartoon with Meghan Trainor and Ariana Grande. We could finally see his face during his live performances top promote this single.


Zolita
Zolita is a 20 years old American openly lesbian singer, who released this year her first EP called "Immaculate Conception", and her first single "Explosion". The sensual music video, which shows two women in love, has 2,7 millions views at the end of the year 2015.


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