Biography
Imagine Dragons is considered to be the heroes of their time. The group participants create truly high-quality and memorable music in a variety of genres - Ind, Pop, Rock, electronics, which raise important social issues. At the same time, their songs most often have positive energy and drive, for which musicians and love thousands of fans from around the world.The history of creation and composition
The team leader named Daniel Kotler Reynolds began to make music for another 6 years, played the piano. When the boy was 13, he secretly took advantage of the elder brother's computer, to, using a voice recorder, record a song about his disappointments and experiences.
The history of the creation of the group IMAGINE DRAGONS (translated as "imaginary dragons") began in 2008, after Daniel met the drummer Andrew Tolman. Guys studied together at the University of Brigham Yang.
Young people discovered the similarity of musical preferences and life goals - both dreamed of creating rock band. Later, the guys got acquainted with the guitarist Andrew Becom, a bassist Dave Lamke and a violin key-key Avruho Florence.
During the years of the group, the composition has repeatedly changed. Aurora and Andrew left Imagine Dragons a few months after the formation of the team. Further, in 2009, Andrew Tolman invited Wayne Surmon to the role of a guitarist, and then his wife Brittan Tolman, who took the place of the keyboard and back vocalist. After the departure of Dave Lamka, Ben Mackey became bassist Imagine Dragons.
In 2011, Tolman's wife declared her care, and her place for six months took Teresa Flaminio, which played on keyboard tools. After that, there was no permanent keyboard player in the team, and during concert tours and records of songs in the studio, Ryan Walker, William Wells and Eliot Schwartzman occupied this vacancy at different times.
Now the composition of Imagine Dragons looks like this - a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist is Dan Reynolds (the only permanent participant who was delayed in the group from its very foundation), guitarist - Wayne Sermon, bassist - Ben Mackey and the striker - Daniel Platzman.
Music
Music career Imagine Dragons began with victory in the "Battle of Group", held in one of the universities of Utah, and in some other contests. The team called "Speak to Me" called the team recorded in 2008. Further, Dan Reynolds decided to move with all the participants of Imagine Dragons in his native city of Las Vegas. There, the group began to regularly perform in striptease bars and casino.They received the first success after participating in the Bit Music festivals of Las Vegas and Vegas Music Summit, where they spoke in front of a 26 thousandth audience as headliners. The young team was invited to the radio fleets, authoritative musical publications gave them loud titles - "Best Plate", "Best Indy Group", and recording labels offered contracts. As a result, they associated themselves to the contract with Interscope Records.
Before signing the IMagine Dragons contract, I managed to write 3 mini album. The debut epic epitome EP came out on September 1, 2009, June 1, 2010 - Hell and Silence, March 12, 2011 - IT's Time.
Together with the release of the fourth EP called Continued Silence February 14, 2012 on the Label Interscope Records, the Group gained real popularity. Single Radioactive instantly won the top positions in world musical charts, was nominated for over 10 premiums, four of which won the four of which, and also received the status of a diamond in the United States due to more than 10 million copies sold. The second commercial success was the song Demons: released in the form of a single, it was sold to more than a 4 million edition.
Despite the fact that all 4 plates critics and listeners met warm enough, the performers wanted more. In one of the interview, the soloist of the group shared that, the release of the first mini-albums, the musicians were "told" the soil before writing a truly high-quality first disk.
So it came out - on September 4, 2012, Imagine Dragons presented a Night Vision plate released with the participation of the musical producer of Alexa da Kida. 83 thousand copies of the album were sold in just 2 weeks, and later the disk received gold status in 7 countries of the world, platinum - at 14 and twice platinum in the US, Sweden, Mexico and Austria.
In addition, the debut album of the team won in the nomination "Best Rock Album" Billboard Music Awards Awards in 2014, and Rolling Stone magazine gave the song Radioactive title "The Big Rock Hit of the Year".
Next, the musicians returned to the path proven - they recorded The Archive mini-release, as well as soundtracks for movies - Battle Cry for the new part of the "transformers", Warriors for "Divergent, chapter 2: Insur", Monster for a computer game. The presentation of individual singles took place. This stage of creativity of the group IMAGINE DRAGONS was adopted positively audience. After that, they started writing the second full-fledged album.
In parallel with this, the musicians went on a tour in Europe and America entitled Night Visions by the name of the album of the same name. Their popularity has achieved such a level that the organizers of the concerts had to increase the number of performances on 13. At the same time, the price of tickets remained a democratic, so they were quickly repaid. The fees amounted to huge amounts. According to Pollstar edition, the concert tour "Dragons" got into twenty. Upon completion of the tour from the group, the disc was released with the recording of live performances.
Artists repeatedly said that they compose their main hits on the road. The path inspires them, gives the sea of bright impressions and motivates on creativity. On February 17, 2015, a presentation of the new group album called Smoke + Mirrors took place.
Talking with journalists, Reynolds repeatedly noted the overall ledge of the team to perfectionism, ranging from the choice of font for the logo and ending with the final selection of songs for the album. After SMOKE + Mirrors success, the group went to the world 9-month tour. However, sales fell compared to the revenue money for the previous full-fledged album
Next, the group members announced a creative break, giving fans a whole documentary about their concert life called Imagine Dragons in Concert: Smoke + Mirrors. However, after a couple of months, they still recorded 2 soundtrack, one of which was Sucker for Pain - was recorded for the popular superhero film "Suicide Squad".
Evolve's third studio album released after 2 years has become a storehouse of real hits, such as Thunder, Believer and Whatever IT Takes. The leader of the group called these compositions with access to a completely new level, where he with his colleagues did not hesitate to experiment with genres and forms of music.
On November 9, 2018, the discography of the rock collective was replenished with another record called Origins. The video for the song Natural looked at Youtube 300 thousand viewers 4 hours after the exit. The album includes such songs like Bad Liar, Digital, Cool Out and others.
Imagine Dragons now
In 2019, the Group Imagine Dragons continues to give ambitious concerts around the world, to engage in charity and record new successful compositions.
For feedback with their audience, the musicians laid out photos, video and text posts on the official profile in "Instagram", followed by millions of subscribers.
In November 2019, a new video on the song Original ME, which Dan Reynolds sang together with the British singer Dominic Harrison, also known as Yungblude, appeared on the Yuttyub Channel of the Group. In the composition, the performers tried to express the idea how important to remain themselves and take even the directions of the individuals that you hate. The clip was filmed on an abandoned car dump, and Jordan Bahat became the director of the video.
In the program of the concert tour for 2020, Imagine Dragons included speeches in Moscow and St. Petersburg. For the first time, Russia was visited in 2016, and then it became clear that here the group had a whole army of fans. The schedule of concerts was available on the official website of the musical team.
Discography
- 2012 - Night Visions
- 2015 - Smoke + Mirrors
- 2017 - Evolve.
- 2018 - Origins.
Clips
- 2012 - Demons
- 2013 - RadioActive.
- 2015 - Warriors.
- 2015 - I'm So Sorry
- 2016 - Sucker for Pain
- 2017 - BelieveR.
- 2017 - Thunder.
- 2017 - Whatever IT Takes
- 2018 - Bad Liar
- 2018 - Natural
- 2018 - Born to Be Yours
- 2019 - Birds.