| Wake Up Living | ||||
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| Released | August 28, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 39:25 | |||
| Label | Sony BMG | |||
| Producer | Brian Malouf | |||
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Wake Up Living is the second album by Canadian singer Kalan Porter, the 2004 winner of Canadian Idol . The album was produced and mixed by Brian Malouf. It was released August 28, 2007 on Sony BMG.
In contrast to his first album, 219 Days , he describes this second effort as being more reflective of what he would like to do musically, [1] and he co-wrote most of this album's songs. The lead single, "Down in Heaven", is a tribute to his mother's battle with breast cancer. [2] The second single is "Destination (Where I Belong)", and its video premiered on MuchMusic in November 2007. A music video for the third single, "Hurray", was released in spring 2008.
Richard Kalan Porter is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Medicine Hat, Alberta, and the winner of the reality television series Canadian Idol in season 2. He started to sing at an early age and is classically trained, playing several instruments, most notably, the violin and viola. He writes and arranges violin solos for many of his songs. Porter's first single "Awake in a Dream" is the best selling debut single for a Canadian artist to date and has been certified 8x Platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. He is also the highest selling solo Canadian Idol singer. In 2013 he was a graduate student in business at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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