Asher Monroe

This weeks "Artist Of The Week" multi talented young man who not only sing. He can dance, act and once played a little chipped tea cup in a little musical production called "Beauty & The Beast he goes by the name Asher Monroe. Asher Monroe Book aka Asher Monroe was born in Arlington, Virgina in 1988. He got his start in show business at the age of seven playing the roll of tiny teacup "Chip" in a national tour of the musical "Beauty & The Beast. He continued to work and from 2000 to 2002 he attend Professional Performing Arts School in New York. In 2011 Asher Monroe signed on solo as the flagship artist to a new music label called D Empire. When Monroe's first solo music video for “Like I Do” hit YouTube, it racked up more than 1.6 million views, half of them within the first 24 hours alone. Passing the million view mark days after the January 2012 release, his second music video "Hello Baby" led to features on the Huffington Post, Forbes. The August 2012 release of his first official radio single "Here With You" (a co-write with Grammy-winning producer Ryan Tedder) debuted on MTV Buzzworthy, landed Monroe the title as one of MTV's Top 10 Artists to Watch.  Asher Monroe's debut album is set to be released in 2013 but till then you can enjoy the song that caught my attention called "Here We Go". So take a listen and tell me what you think. As always you can follow me on twitter @StarsOnTheRise and facebook at Ona Crayton just look for the "Stars On The Rise" logo.

                                                                www.ashermonroe.com