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A 22-year-old Californian singer-songwriter named [|Colbie Caillat] released her debut album [|“COCO”] on July 17, 2007 on the [|Universal Republic] label. It hit #1 on iTunes within hours of release. Now her talented singing and amazing songs are on full display, available for everyone. Her music is acoustic based, but its arrangements go deeper to classical folk, jazz & pop. Colbie Caillat began singing when she was only 11 years old. As she grew older her father arranged singing, piano and guitar lessons for his daughter. When she was 15 Mikal Blue hired her to sing the songs that he had written for his fashion show. Later on, he and Jason Reeves helped Colbie Caillat with her first album. Once she had a bunch of songs, she put a few of them on [|MySpace], more in hope than expectation. However within four months she became #1 unsigned artist on MySpace. That’s the time when Universal Republic started watching her and after a while Colbie signed up the offered contract with the well-known record company. After working hard on a couple of songs they released the album with a cute name “Coco”, called after Colbie’s child nickname. The CD opens with the great track called Oxygen and includes the general number of 12 tracks. The album’s first single, [|“Bubbly”], climbed to the Top 20 of iTunes pop singles chart and became a top-requested hit across American radio stations. The video for the single was done in Caillat’s home area, in Malibu, California, along with Santa Barbara. All the tracks in the album are easy to listen to, catch your ears and are written in easy language about simple things in life that people value. “Magic”, “Midnight Bottle”, “Tailor Made” stand out for their memorable lyrics and melody. Caillat sings about her feelings and the way to show them, playing the guitar and piano. Her songs are absolutely inoffensive, which is probably her secret of coming up to Number One on the iTunes chart. “It starts in my toes and makes me crinkle my nose…” Who knows the words can sing along. A couple of songs on the CD have become true hits; any of the songs is a miss. Rating Colbie Caillat’s work is not the hard thing to deal with, because her talent is amazing and her desire to work deserves respect and appreciation of her fans. So, Colbie Caillat gets full 4 stars in this rate.