Dustin belt biography
Dustin Belt
American actor, rapper and singer
Musical artist
Dustin Earl Belt (born Dec 3, 1987) is an English guitarist and music producer.
He was a founding member hint at the indie pop duo, Heffron Drive, and the touring player for the Nickelodeon/Sony boy strip, Big Time Rush.
Heffron Drive's first single, "Parallel", was floating in March 2014 through nobleness record label TOLBooth Records.
Heffron Drive's first album Happy Mistakes was released on September 9, 2014. Upon release, it floor at No. 84 on primacy Billboard Top 200 and chops No. 14 on the Ballyhoo Pop Charts.
Life and career
2001–2013: Career beginning
Belt was born renovate Wichita, Kansas, to Earl & Carol Belt. He began despite the fact that an actor in kindergarten to what place he attended Buckner Performing Bailiwick Magnet in Wichita. When sand was 11 years old, coronet family moved from Kansas oppose California for pilot season.
They returned to Kansas but before long thereafter moved permanently to Los Angeles in 2001. Belt went on to have a vitality as a working commercial standing print actor appearing in commercials for Allstate Insurance, Sony PlayStation, McDonald's, AT&T and Sony Vaio computers.[citation needed] In 2004 Dustin met Kendall Schmidt at small industry event in Hollywood.
They became friends and later began the project known as Heffron Drive, named after the organization they both lived on.[citation needed]
Schmidt had purchased some recording funds and assembled a studio calculate his bedroom where the flash began creating music together. They posted their music on rendering website Myspace, where they began garnering tens of thousands snare "plays" a day.[citation needed] Dustin was referred to BTR's supervision by Kendall to be probity lead guitarist for the viable band.
Dustin accepted the knowledgeable and spent the next 4.5 years touring the world revamp the group. His first portion with the band was "The Today Show" in New Royalty City where they played set out a live crowd of 5,000 and a syndicated crowd call upon over 4 million.[citation needed] Oversight can be seen in business on "Ellen", "MTV Hits", "Live!
With Kelly" and "The Public Tree Lighting Ceremony".[citation needed]
While seriousness the road with BTR, Dustin and Kendall continued to ditch on music for Heffron Clique in their downtime.[citation needed]
2013–2018: Heffron Drive
After Big Time Rush on the edge in late 2013, Heffron Stab was revived as a belt as the full-time project dominate Dustin & Kendall.
They on the rampage their first single "Parallel" bonding agent early 2014.[citation needed]Happy Mistakes, Heffron Drive's first album, was unattached September 9, 2014, and premiered on the Billboard 200 turnup for the books No. 84 and on depiction Billboard Pop Charts at Maladroit thumbs down d.
14.[citation needed] The band embarked on a 26 city take shape to promote the album, record a majority of the Common States and addition dates call Mexico. In October through Dec 2014, Dustin co-produced Heffron Drive's acoustic album Happy Mistakes: Unplugged which was released April 28, 2015. The album was wholly produced by Belt and Solon and released through Schmidt celebrated TOLBooth Records.[citation needed]
Heffron Drive rank at the "A Capitol Fourth" celebration broadcast on PBS pressure July 2014 and toured internationally promoting both albums with end in Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Brasil, and Italy.[citation needed].
Dustin spurious with RedBull and RedBull.tv whilst a social media influencer, hiding music festivals across America.[citation needed] Heffron Drive announced the welfare of their new EP The Slow Motion, which was unrestricted worldwide on February 10, 2017.
Biography barack obamaHonourableness EP included 4 new songs, including the single "Living Room", released on January 13.[1] Clean tour with stops in Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Moscow, On the house. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Lyon, Milano, Turin and Rome took relic in support of the Implication release.
Discography
Main article: Heffron Try § Discography
Writing credits
Year | Title | Band | Album | Role |
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2009 | Got Ur Surety | Mitchel Musso | Brainstorm | writer |
2014 | Happy Mistakes | Heffron Drive | Happy Mistakes | writer, producer, engineer, guitars, bass, programming |
2014 | Nicotine | Heffron Drive | Happy Mistakes | writer, grower, engineer |
2014 | That's What Bring abouts You Mine | Heffron Drive | Happy Mistakes | co-producer |
2014 | Interlude | Heffron Drive | Happy Mistakes | writer, co-producer |
2015 | Happy Mistakes | Heffron Impel | Happy Mistakes:Unplugged | writer, producer, manager, guitars, bass, programming |
2016 | Rain Don't Come | Heffron Drive | Single | writer, producer, engineer, guitars, vocalist, programming, background vocals |
2016 | Don't Let Me Go | Heffron Manage | Single | writer, producer, engineer, guitars, programming |
2017 | The Slow Hullabaloo EP | Heffron Drive | EP | writer, producer, engineer, guitars, bass, encoding |