Career
August Rigo is signed to a publishing contract with Sony/ATV as a songwriter. Dan August Rigo (born August 6, 1986 Toronto, Ontario, Canada) became passionate about music when he watched Michael Jackson"s performance of "Billie Jean" on Motown"s 25th Anniversary television Show. He taught himself to play keyboards and guitar while in his teens.
He Company-wrote U Smile, and "Kiss And Tell" for Justin Bieber, Solo for Iyaz and Outta this World for JLS. He is featured on Cheryl Cole"s second album, Messy Little Raindrops, on the song Better To Lie.
He is the executive producer of Musiq Soulchild"s 2011 release of "musiqinthemagiq" and co-wrote, "SayIDo", "Silver & Gold", and "BackToWhere". In 2010, August secured a publishing deal with Sony/ATV as well as an admin society deal with BMI. He is also signed with Island Def Jam Records.
In October 2011, August released his first single "Here Comes Trouble" featuring Busta Rhymes on Alpine Music Group/Island DefJam. He also released his promo mixtape "Too Big To Fail" online.
Rigo produced and featured on YouTube rapper Doctorate-Pryde"s mixtapes "Once Again" (2012) and "Mars" (2011), as well as Doctorate-Pryde"s first European Parliament Canal&Richvale (2013).