♫ ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: CHESTER FRENCH

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♫ Chester French – She Loves Everybody

Meet D.A. Wallach and Maxwell Drummey, who make up the duo, Chester French. These two Harvard graduates wrote, arranged, produced and engineered their album, tentatively titled Love the Future in their dorm’s basement. Last December, their demo found its way around the industry and got them attracting offers from heavyweights like Kanye West, Jermaine Dupri, Pharrell Williams and Jimmy Iovine.


Naming their band after sculptor Daniel Chester French, who designed the statue at the Lincoln Memorial, the boys were signed to Pharrell’s Star Trak Music, via Interscope. Just last May, D.A. and Max completed recording and their degrees, in African American Studies and Social Anthropology, respectively. They’ve both since relocated to LA to put the finishing touches on their debut album, due out this year.

I’ve known about the guys for a while now and I definitely am digging their sound and I absolutely love their story. Pharrell better do these boys justice.

Make sure you show Chester French some CL love on their MySpace page, if you’re digging what you’ve heard.

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90 Responses to ♫ ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: CHESTER FRENCH

  1. ..:iRok:..

    ..:iLive:..!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. I’m not late with chester french, sorry. I’ve actually been on them for a while. :)

    just because it’s not posted until later doesn’t mean no one’s up on it.

  3. The Wayno Show

    Phat as hell. The joint is mad fresh! They get my vote.

  4. Brad"kali"Bowden

    yall got it all wrong on this one……. way off.

    CF is the real deal no doubt, but their early recordings were engineered, arranged, and produced by the great Tyler Woods(also a harvard grad). my man did it CHEAP, so he’s deserves the nod. He crushed it!!! if youre feelin CF please go and dig these sessions up, it’s some magic like brion+apple. he is currently playing keys in their live band. don’t take my word for it,ask them about tyler….

    it’ll be interesting to see what these “super” producers do with them.

  5. Diamond1

    I’M REALLY FEELIN THIS…. HAS A NICE SOUND… I WANT TO HEAR MORE FROM THEM..

  6. Los

    Brian, I think this was a great feature. A departure from the norm and very good music. Keep it up.

  7. african_queen

    they sound good reminds me of maroon5 kind of style but i will listen to more of their music and i will see if i can jump on their bandwagon

  8. Cj

    Bryan you got it right this time! Right on!

  9. MADISON

    THEY ARE ALREADY SIGNED TO STAR TRAK I SAW THEM IN RICHMOND VA. THEY OPENED UP FOR N.E.R.D. AND LET THE RECORDS SHOW THAT THEY ONLY DATE BLACK GIRLS. AND IM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE FAIR SKINNED ONES EITHER!!!!!

  10. Brent

    Be nice if you gave someone who wasnt a harvard grad a break….shit when you go to harvard you gonna do good no matter what! BOO!

  11. Ladyssolady

    I like it….good, mellow vibe to it.

  12. TRUTH80

    I like them, especially the lyrics. Thanks Brian for posting, some of us haven’t heard of them so I appreciate it when you post something outside the norm. Don’t listen to those saying your late.

  13. bachelor’s in african american studies…interesting.

    I actually really like this song.

  14. Richy

    thank you once again. i’ve been playing this song all day!

  15. Daved Meal

    Chester French is absolutely Genius for this track. I want to thank CL for displaying the duo! Beautiful!

  16. Jay

    I’m a fan of them!!! Jimmy Choo’s is another great song by them!

  17. SASSY ME!

    OMG! BRAIN I’M REALLY DIGGIN’ THIS ONE MY FRIEND YOU DID RIGHT BY SPOTLIGHT THEM AS ONE OF THE ARTIST FOR THE WEEK. I’M DIGGIN THE WHOLE VIBE REALLY SOMETHING I CAN GET INTO….
    CAN’T WAIT FOR THE CD TO DROP…I’M IMPRESSED :)

  18. ethang

    Oooh I love this! Thanks for putting this up. I now have a new artist to check out.

  19. Jesus Tomas

    Its alright…there is alot better music out there…esthero, santogold, Vakero,cool kids, calle 13..N.E.R.D.’s new album blows this out the water. Also Kenna blows this out the water!!!! Kenna is way underrated and never gets any play…I wonder why?
    I’m always amazed at how if someone hears they date black and study black…….folks are all over them and accepting.. if it was a black or Latino guy doing the same thing…and dates white chicks here comes the “haterrade”..best of luck to them I have no anomosity for them.

  20. Jesus Tomas

    I gotta admit though it is better than some of lil wayne’s stuff ,”plies” or flies, slow motion 4 me…and all the ghetto crap on black radio these days..

  21. Jesus Tomas

    Kenna is so talented why no spot for him CL??? Tego Calderon Ni fu ni Fa??? NERD’s seeing sounds is the best album of 08! Omega??

  22. PEEPLPAYATTENSHUN

    THIS SONG MAKES ME WANT TO GO BOO BOO…SO I GUESS IT’S COOL

  23. Miiami

    Lol i be digging some of that “other side” of music. u kno what is supposedly white ppl music. i can bump this is my room when im bored.

  24. JVILL

    Beautiful Music

    check out the she loves everybody remix
    @ myspace.com/jvillofficial =]

    LOVE TO CHESTER FRENCH!!!

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