NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Universal Motown Records) - Platinum-selling producer, songwriter, label entrepreneur - and now recording artist - Ryan Leslie, has been scoring hits for everyone from Sean 'Diddy' Combs to Britney and Beyonce, now he's entered the next phase of his career with the hot new single 'How Its Supposed To Be' off his long-awaited debut album, self-titled RYAN LESLIE, out February 10th on Next Selection/Universal Motown imprint.
Fresh off his 2008 Sundance Channel & Grey Goose 'The Next Garde' 8-city national tour, the new single, 'How It's Supposed To Be' has been all over radio and virally online where fans have been flooding his Youtube page(16+ million views/1.1million channel views) and unprecedented website www.ryanleslie.com which migrates all of his fans with up to the minute Twitter updates, direct messages straight to Ryan's blackberry and other communities encouraging them to keep in contact by taking down his personal cell phone and email, and entering their contact into his blackberry via Ryansblackberry.com. 'How's It's Supposed To Be' is the follow up to R&B hit 'Diamond Girl' and 'Addiction' which features pop singer Cassie, the young singer discovered by Ryan in 2006, and signed to his Next Selection label, via Bad Boy/Atlantic. Cassie's debut single, 'me&u,' also written and produced by Ryan, turned into one of the biggest hits of that year - No 1 R&B and No 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, certified RIAA platinum for digital sales and at the time was the No 1 most played record at radio for 7 weeks..
Along with promoting his debut record, Ryan has been all over radio with hits by LL Cool J('Like A Radio'), Slim of 112('Good Lovin'), Jim Jones ('Precious')and busy in the studio with everyone from J-Lo to 50 cent to Omarion and his newest Next Selection signee Krys Ivory. Ryan has amassed writing or productions credits (often both) with Beyonce ('Keep Giving Your Love To Me'), Britney Spears ('The Answer'), JoJo ('Like That'), New Edition ('Hot 2Nite'), Snoop Dogg ('Heavyweights'), Danity Kane ('Touching My Body,' 'Ooh Ahh'), Cheri Dennis ('I Love You') and many others.
In 2003, he was signed as an artist to Universal/Motown and began recording his debut album, Just Right (a Europe-only release). With his international fans loving his Europe release, Ryan has packed venues across the world from Germany to Dubai, Netherlands and Sweden growing a fan base that appreciates live orchestration and a great performance.
The self-made businessman, who lives in Harlem, took his media marketing savvy one step further when he launched his controversial YouTube channel RyanLeslieTV which serves as a living documentary of Ryan Leslie's journey over the past five years as well. The channel serves as a living documentary of Ryan Leslie's journey over the past five years, as he shares video content ranging from production clips to live performances - and welcomes his fans to contribute to the site as well.
