Angel Taylor
Background information
Birth name	Angel Mae Taylor
Born	(1988-03-20) March 20, 1988 (age 35) Sylmar, California, U.S.
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Pop, soul
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, keyboard
Years active	2009–present
Labels	Aware, Columbia
Website	www.angeltayloronline.com

Angel Mae Taylor^[1] is a pop singer-songwriter based in the Los Angeles area. Having had no musical education, she is self-trained in songwriting as well as playing the piano and the guitar.

Angel Taylor's debut album, entitled Love Travels^[2] was released on iTunes on March 31, 2009, through Aware/Columbia Records, one month after an EP with the titular song and some more was released. Her song "Make Me Believe" was offered as the iTunes single of the week during the week of March 30, 2009. Taylor has toured with a variety of artists including Adele, Kate Voegele, Brett Dennen, Brandi Carlile, and Gavin DeGraw. Taylor was a supporting artist along with Five For Fighting, Mat Kearney, and Sugar Ray at various concerts during the summer of 2009.

Taylor was also featured as one of VH1's You Oughtta Know: Artist on the rise.

Personal life

Born to mother LaTonya Taylor and an abusive father, Angel Mae Taylor is the youngest of five sisters. Her older sister Ebony Taylor appeared on the fifth season of America's Next Top Model. Angel has lived in Sylmar, California and Santa Clarita, California.^{[citation needed]}

Early career

Angel's recording career began when she sent an email to producer Mikal Blue who has also worked with Colbie Caillat, Brendan James, and Jason Reeves and this resulted in an invitation to his studio, Revolver Studios.^{[citation needed]} As she said "I played two songs, 'Chai' and 'It's Easy,' and he said he wanted to work with me — I told him all I wanted to do was get my music on a CD, and asked him how long that was going to take, and he said, 'Oh no, I want to really work with you....'"^[3]

After only a matter of months, Angel Taylor took her first plane trip to the record label studio in New York.^{[citation needed]} After signing with Aware/Columbia Records, she was able to move into her first home with her mother and two of her sisters. Angel had had no musical school and only started writing poetry because of her sister.^{[citation needed]} Angel Taylor: "Ebony started writing poetry when she was 14, I was 13, and I started writing cheeseball stuff like, 'you're awesome, I think, you're opossum.' It didn't really get real until a few years later, but I never took a lesson - songs happened by me banging on a piano, playing it by ear, and trying to fit my poetry in. I didn't want to be a musician, I just wanted a fun hobby...."^[4]

The Voice

She was a contestant on the second season of The Voice, where she picked Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine as her coach. Later in the battle rounds, she lost to Katrina Parker therefore losing her chance to perform in the live shows.

Discography

• Love Travels EP (2009)
• Love Travels LP (2009)
• Motion EP (2012)

Taylor's song "Like You Do" was featured in the score of the next to last episode of The CW's One Tree Hill's sixth season and a season 2 episode of VH1's Tough Love, where she also performed on the show. "Make Me Believe" was featured on 90210 on May 5, 2009.

In 2013, Angel Taylor worked with the California-based DJs, Mako and was the featured vocalist for his song Beam (Dannic Mix). In 2014, she was the featured vocalist on "Up All Night" by Russian DJ Arty which became the first single taken from his 2015 album Glorious. In 2015, she provided the vocals for the song "Make It Right" which was featured on Armin van Buuren's album Embrace. She has also collaborated with Tritonal on "Getaway", AFSHeeN on "Would It Be Ok", and HARBER on "Me and My Friends". In 2019, she was the vocalist on Morgan Page's single "Reason for Living" which was included in "Beat Saber (Original Game Soundtrack), Vol. III".