Global hip-hop sensation – Flo Rida will release the brand new single, ‘Available’ on November 23 via Atlantic Records. Featuring Akon, it comes just as he brought the heat to X-Factor winner, Alexandra Burke’s debut single – ‘Bad Boys’, which zoomed straight into the UK chart at number 1.
The wil.i.am produced track, ‘Available’ is the fourth single to be lifted from Flo Rida’s sophomore UK Gold-certified album, R.O.O.T.S (an acronym for Route Of Overcoming The Struggle), which features the likes of Ne-Yo, Wyclef Jean and Nelly Furtado amongst others.
It has been an incredible rise to the top for the Carol City, Florida native. The journey began with the release of the phenomenal smash hit single - ‘Low’, taken from his debut UK Gold-certified album, MAIL ON SUNDAY , which saw him win a formidable collection of accolades - including two Grammy nominations, two American Music Award nominations, a Peoples Choice Award, an MTV Africa Music Award and a Mobo Award.
He made a triumphant return earlier this year with the release of the number 1 smash hit ‘Right Round’. Subsequently, he made digital sales history, shattering the all-time one-week digital single sales record he previously held with ‘Low’ when ‘Right Round’ became the fastest million-selling digital song ever, reaching platinum status in just two weeks. He is the second best-selling single act in the US behind the Black Eyed Peas.
Not that the road to super-stardom has been an easy one for Flo. He got his first break at 18 when touring with as the hype man for Fresh Kid Ice of 2 Live Crew, and his MC skills caught the attention of DeVante Swing - formerly of the famed R&B group Jodeci. Swing flew the young rapper out to LA, where Flo ended up staying for three years, struggling to make his mark. “I was literally on the streets, at times promoting myself by myself,” he says.
In early 2006, hesitant to leave L.A until he had successfully landed a record deal, he returned to Miami. Continuing his grind, working hard to self promote and with the help of CEO of Poe Entertainment’s E-Class, he signed first to Poe Entertainment and then to Atlantic Records. “That was the greatest moment of my life,” Flo Rida recalls. “I had been working so hard for so long. I had jobs in construction, I worked in warehouses, you name it. But those were all the sacrifices I made by putting my money towards my music, and it finally paid off”.
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