Corbin Bleu

As a singer, dancer and actor, Corbin Bleu has no shortage of talent. In 2006, he had a prominent role as "Chad" (the best friend of the male lead) in the very successful "High School Musical," the third top rated Disney Channel Original Movie of 2006. Corbin's next film, "Jump In!," co-starring actress and R&B vocalist Keke Palmer, premiered in January of this year and has since became the highest rated Disney Channel Original Movie of all time. His debut album, "Another Side," is scheduled to be released in May.

Corbin Bleu began appearing in television commercials at the age two, for products such as Life cereal, Bounty, Hasbro, and Nabisco. It was at that time he also discovered his love for dance when he began taking jazz and ballet classes, usually the only boy in the class. By the age of four he was a model with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York. He appeared in print ads for stores such as Macy’s, Gap, Target, and Toys R Us, and fashion spreads in Child, Parent, and American Baby magazines, as well as having his image on toys and game packaging. At age six Corbin appeared in his first professional theatre production off Broadway playing an abandoned homeless mute in the play “Tiny Tim is Dead.”

Corbin and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1996 and he quickly landed a recurring role on the television series “High Incident.” He continued to land small roles in such feature films as “Soldier” with Kurt Russell, “Mystery Men” with Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, and Greg Kinnear, and “Galaxy Quest” with Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Alan Rickman. He also guest starred on such television shows as “E.R.,” “Malcolm & Eddie,” “Cover Me,” and “The Amanda Show.” Corbin also continued dancing, eventually becoming one of the first students at the prestigious Debbie Allen Dance Academy. He then attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theatre major.

While in his freshman year Corbin was cast in his first lead role in the feature film “Catch That Kid.” Back in school in his sophomore year he played the lead role of Ren in the musical “Footloose” and the role of Sonny in the musical “Grease.” That same year Corbin was honored with the award of Theatre Student of the Year. In the summer of 2004 Corbin became a part of the ensemble cast for the new Discovery Kids television series “Flight 29 Down,” filmed on location in Hawaii on the island of Oahu.

Drake Bell

For a 20-year-old, Drake Bell is an old soul when it comes to the music he listens to and plays on his Universal Motown Records debut "It's Only Time."

Songs like the first single, "I Know," and the empowering, Elton John-like rocker "Do What You Want" boast a bittersweet pop sound, with catchy harmonies and plenty of exuberant vocal hooks, which is no wonder considering the Newport Beach, CA, native, whose mother is two-time world champion pool player Robin Dodson, was raised on the classic rock of the '60s.

"I'm a huge fan of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, everything about them," he enthuses. "The songs, the way they were as people, their style. I love all those old vinyl albums."

Learning how to play guitar from The Who's Roger Daltrey, with whom he worked in the 1998 movie "Changing Destiny," Drake proved a natural student.

A child actor who began appearing in commercial and feature films when he was 5, Bell says, "I was always an entertainer. I loved being the life of the party. I watched all the old TV shows: Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, and the Osmonds. When I was a kid, I wanted to be Elvis Presley so I could star in movies and TV while also playing music."

He was John Cusack's son in the HBO film "The Jack Bull," receiving a 2000 Young Artist Award for Best Supporting Young Actor in a TV Movie or Pilot. He also had a memorable role in "Jerry Maguire," as the son of a hospitalized hockey player client of Tom Cruise's sports agent.

Bell went on to roles in the feature films "High Fidelity" and "Yours, Mine and Ours" as well as the TV series "Seinfeld," "The Drew Carey Show," "The Pretender" and "Home Improvement" while appearing in the cast of Nickelodeon's sketch comedy series "The Amanda Show," which led to his starring role on the network's popular "The Josh and Drake Show."

Bell says his character Drake Parker is merely an extension of the musical persona he has in real life, composing all the songs he plays on the show and penning its theme, "Found a Way." The series just completed its fourth, and final, season on the air, leaving room for Drake to pursue his musical career.

Bell put out the indie release "Telegraph" on his own last year, recording it in his home studio with singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer Michael Corcoran, who also collaborated with him on his major-label debut. "We did this album in the same grass-roots way," explains Drake. "Playing all the instruments, Paul McCartney 'Ram' style, except it's more complex instrumentally and more orchestrated than 'Telegraph.'"

That can be heard on the album's centerpiece four-song suite—"Fallen for You," "Rusted Silhouette," "Break Me Down," and "End It Good"— forming a narrative about the ups and downs in three different relationships, an admitted homage to the second side of the Beatles' "Abbey Road."

Much of the joy on "It's Only Time" comes from Bell's survival of a head-on collision late last year in his '66 Mustang on the Pacific Coast Highway as he was sitting at a light, suffering a broken jaw, fractured neck, six lost teeth and a six-inch gash to his chin. "That's one of the reasons this album is so upbeat and fun," he says. "I wake up every morning thinking I'm lucky to be alive."

That spirit comes through loud and clear during Bell's live shows with his band, which has performed at the House of Blues in Atlanta, Anaheim and San Diego as well as the Roxy in L.A., helping ignite a bidding war among labels won by Universal.

"When we play concerts, we have everyone from five and six-year-olds to teenagers to their parents and grandparents," he says. "The older people come up to me and tell me they enjoyed themselves as much as their kids.

"When you come to one of our shows, you can tell immediately we're not fake. The way we sing and play our instruments on-stage, no one can say it's contrived or pre-fabricated. It's real."

One listen to "It's Only Time" and you know... Drake Bell's time is now.

Jordan Pruitt

At an age when most teens have only begun to discover themselves Jordan Pruitt already has a good sense of who she is. "I'm an all-American girl," she says. "Half girly-girl, half tomboy. I can go without make-up and go fishing with my dad; other times, I buy pink shoes and shop at Betsey Johnson." There may be two sides to Jordan the teenager. But when it comes to music, there's only one side: Jordan Pruitt is a monumentally talented singer/songwriter with a maturity far beyond her 15 years. As her Hollywood Records debut CD "No Ordinary Girl" shows, Jordan has the chops to command the youth audience of today and for many tomorrows to come.

Produced, arranged and composed by Keith Thomas (Nick Lachey, Mandy Moore, Whitney Houston, Amy Grant), Jordan co-wrote most of this CD with the help of lyricist Robin Scoffield and Keith Thomas. It is with great artistry that "No Ordinary Girl" reflects the world as seen through a bright-eyed fun-loving teen, while still managing to hit upon "the universal" in every song.

"Outside Looking In" has already proven the case. In the song Jordan examines the typical teen phenomenon of feeling left out and turns it into a deeply reflective acoustic-flavored masterwork. The track has already garnered more than a million spins on Jordan's Myspace page. Meanwhile the video version, shot at L.A.'s famed University High, captures all of the song's inherent drama. The track was also featured in the Disney Channel's made-for-television film "Read It And Weep," which aired this past summer. Getting a further head start, Jordan hit the road for a national tour opening for the Cheetah Girls and Vanessa Hudgens.

"No Ordinary Girl" is aptly titled as Jordan consistently avoids the easy traps that plague some other young teen artists. Instead, in every song she strives for the extraordinary. Upbeat tracks like "Teenager" and "Miss Popularity" explore classic elements of high school life, mining them for musical and lyrical gold. In "I'm Over It," Jordan layers her own intricate harmonies over hard-core funk track, while her joyous remake of the Sister Sledge classic "We Are Family" sums up perfectly Jordan's approach to life.

Hailing from Loganville, Georgia, Jordan began singing at age 4 -- no surprise, as her father was a worship and song leader at the family's church. "I was singing with my dad's band at 10, harmonizing with them. That's when he knew this was something bigger." In the years to come, Jordan sang before audiences ranging from a few thousand to the tens of thousands, at venues such as Centennial Olympic Park, Stone Mountain, Six Flags Over Georgia and The Fox Theater.

Jordan's big break came when Grammy Award winning producer Keith Thomas heard a demo Jordan had recorded in Atlanta. "The next day," recalls Jordan, "Keith called us and said, Get up here." Jordan soon found herself in Thomas' studio in Franklin, Tenn., soon after which she signed with Levosia Entertainment, and later Hollywood Records.

That prompted a family move to Tennessee and a relentless agenda of writing, recording and building for Jordan's impending debut. "It's been such a crazy experience," laughs Jordan. "It's all so new to me, working from 12 to 12, but it's also been so much fun."

In the months preceding the CD release, Jordan has been setting the stage. Her "We Are Family" cover is featured on the soundtrack of Disney's DVD movie "Air Puppies." Jordan also had a chance to perform with labelmates Aly & AJ at the Disney co-sponsored 2006 Youth Marketing Conference. Jordan also recorded an original song “Jump to the Rhythm” which
was featured in the Disney Channel Movie “Jump In”.

With so much happening in her life and career, it's fair to ask how the 15-year-old handles it all. Her answer is simple: "I've got amazing people around me," says Jordan. "People always tell me to keep my head on straight. Well, I have my family to help me do that. With my music, I'm not saying I'm going to change the world, but I do want to it make a better place."

Jordan Pruitt. No ordinary girl. No ordinary artist.