Cisco Adler
{{Short description|American musician}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2021}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Cisco Adler
| image = Cisco Adler at Popdust.jpg
| caption = Adler performing in 2019
| image_size =
| birth_name = Cisco Sam Adler
| alias =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|09|06}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California
| genre = {{Flatlist|
| instrument = Vocals, guitar
| occupation = Musician, songwriter, producer
| years_active = 2000–present
| label = {{Flatlist|
- Atlantic (2002–2004)
- Contango (2005–2007)
- Suretone
- Geffen (2007–present)
- Bananabeat (2010–present)}}
| website = [http://www.myspace.com/ciscoadlerpresents Adler's Official MySpace]
}}
Cisco Sam Adler (born September 6, 1978) is an American musician and record producer.
Personal life
Adler is married to fashion model Barbara Stoyanoff; they have one child.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} He is the son of record and film producer Lou Adler.
Career
Adler has collaborated extensively with hip-hop artist Shwayze. Their first single "Buzzin'" reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the follow-up "Corona and Lime" peaked at number 23.{{Citation|last=Masley |first=Ed |title=Shwayze reps their 'hood'|url=https://www.azcentral.com/ent/music/articles/2008/12/07/20081207shwayze.html|publisher=The Arizona Republic|date=December 7, 2008|accessdate=December 29, 2008}} They starred in the MTV reality series Buzzin',{{Citation|last=Beck|first=Marilyn|title=Cisco Adler Moves on For Good From Whitestarr|url=http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=27&num=21404|publisher=The National Ledger|date=July 7, 2008|accessdate=July 26, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204025336/http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=27&num=21404|archive-date=December 4, 2008|url-status=dead}} have appeared on MTV Cribs,{{Citation|title=MTV Cribs (Season 16) Ep. 2 T-Pain, Colbie Caillat, Cisco Adler and Shwayze |url=http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/261120/cisco-adler-shwayze.jhtml#id=1591081|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229035810/http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/261120/cisco-adler-shwayze.jhtml#id=1591081|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 29, 2008|publisher=MTV|date=July 26, 2008|accessdate=December 29, 2008}} and toured with Warped Tour 2008.{{Citation|last=Faraone|first=Chris|title=Hip-hop's become part of the mix – and draw – on Warped Tour|url=http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/2008_07_22_Hip-hop_s_become_part_of_the_mix_-_and_draw_-_on_Warped_Tour/srvc=home&position=also|publisher=Boston Herald|date=July 22, 2008|accessdate=July 26, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202183024/http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/2008_07_22_Hip-hop_s_become_part_of_the_mix_-_and_draw_-_on_Warped_Tour/srvc%3Dhome%26position%3Dalso|archive-date=December 2, 2008|url-status=dead}} They worked with DJ Skeet Skeet on a Nike-sponsored workout program entitled Beach Blast by Shwayze.{{Citation|last=Roberts|first=Randall|title=Questionable Idea #341: Shwayze and Cisco Adler Team Up for Cheesy Workout Recording, Get Paid|url=http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/news/dumb-idea-341-shwayze-and-cisc|publisher=LA Weekly|date=December 3, 2008|accessdate=December 28, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205124930/http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/news/dumb-idea-341-shwayze-and-cisc/|archive-date=December 5, 2008|url-status=dead}}{{Citation|title=Nike + Shwayze = Beach Body By Shwayze|url=http://www.nikeblog.com/2008/11/26/nike-shwayze-beach-body-by-shwayze|publisher=Nike, Inc.|date=November 26, 2008|accessdate=December 28, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206104431/http://www.nikeblog.com/2008/11/26/nike-shwayze-beach-body-by-shwayze/|archive-date=December 6, 2008|url-status=dead}}
Other artists with whom Adler has worked include Mod Sun,{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} Tayyib Ali,{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} Mike Posner,{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} Cody Simpson,{{Citation|last=Swerdloff|first=Alexis|title=L.A. Culture Vultures: Cisco Adler|url=http://www.papermag.com/?section=article&parid=2513|publisher=Paper|date=March 14, 2008|accessdate=August 30, 2009}} and The Internet,{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} Wiz Khalifa, Blackbear, Yung Pinch, Gashi, YG, Pouya, and more.
Solo projects include the mixtapes Pop Shit and Super California Lipstick Sexy Magic Dope Shit.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}
Adler produced the soundtrack for the 2016 musical comedy television film The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} He produced and appeared in the film Sweetie Pie.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}
Legal issues
Adler was arrested in 2008 for assaulting an employee of the Fargo, North Dakota club where he and Shwayze were performing but was released shortly after being taken into custody.{{Citation|last=Heldman|first=Breanne L.|title=Serial Starlet Dater Cisco Adler Busted for Bar Brawl|url=https://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b74063_Serial_Starlet_Dater_Cisco_Adler_Busted_for_Bar_Brawl.html|publisher=E!|date=December 18, 2008|accessdate=December 28, 2008}}
Discography
=Albums with Whitestarr=
- Luv Machine (2006)
- Fillith Tillith (2007)
=Albums with Shwayze=
class="wikitable" |
style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Year
! style="width:220px; text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Information ! style="text-align:center;" colspan="4"|Chart positions{{cite magazine | last =Cohen | first =Jonathan | title =Jonas Brothers Begin Second Week at No. 1 | magazine =Billboard | date =August 27, 2008 | url =https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1044342/jonas-brothers-begin-second-week-at-no-1 | accessdate =August 28, 2008 }} ! style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Certifications |
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width="40"|U.S.
!width="40"|U.S. R&B !width="40"|U.S. Rap !width="40"|CAN |
style="text-align:center;"|2008
|align="left"|Shwayze
|{{center|10}} |{{center|5}} |{{center|3}} |{{center|92}} |Sales: |
style="text-align:center;"|2009
|align="left"|Let It Beat
|{{center|55}} |{{center|—}} |{{center|3}} |{{center|—}} |Sales: |
style="text-align:center;"|2011
|align="left"|Island in the Sun{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/island-in-the-sun-bonus-version/457924215 |title=iTunes – Music – Island In the Sun (Bonus Version) by Shwayze & Cisco |publisher=iTunes |date=September 1, 2011|access-date=July 25, 2015}}
|{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |Sales: |
=Solo albums=
- Aloha (2012)
- Coastin' (2014)
=Singles=
class="wikitable" |
style="width:30px;" rowspan="2"| Year
! style="width:250px;" rowspan="2"| Title ! colspan="4"| Chart Positions ! style="width:200px;" rowspan="2"| Album |
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style="width:40px;"| U.S. 100
! style="width:40px;"| Hot Digital ! style="width:40px;"| U.S. Pop ! style="width:40px;"| Top 40 Mainstream |
style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|2008
|align="left"|"Buzzin'" | style="text-align:center;"|46 | style="text-align:center;"|18 | style="text-align:center;"|47 | style="text-align:center;"|35 | style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Shwayze |
align="left"|"Corona and Lime"
| style="text-align:center;"|23 | style="text-align:center;"|6 | style="text-align:center;"|32 | style="text-align:center;"|— |
style="text-align:center;" rowspam="1"|2009
|align="left"|"Get U Home" | style="text-align:center;"|— | style="text-align:center;"|— | style="text-align:center;"|— | style="text-align:center;"|— | style="text-align:left;"|Let It Beat |
=EPs=
- Alice in La La Land (2009)
- The W's (2011)
- Aloha (2012)
- One Way (2013)
- Mahalo (2013)
- Don't Kill My Buzz... (2017)
=Mixtapes=
- Rich Girls (2008)
- Super California Lipstick Sexy Magic Dope Shit (2010)
;Music videos
class="wikitable" style="font-size: 9pt" | |
style="width:33px;"| Year
! style="width:150px;"| Title ! style="width:175px;"| Director(s) | |
---|---|
style="text-align:center;"|2006
|"Sunshine Girl" | | |
style="text-align:center;"|2007
|"Dirty Words" | |
style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2008
|"Hollywood" |Shaw | |
"Buzzin'"
|Robert Hales, Alison Foster | |
"Corona and Lime"
|Shane Drake, Brandon Bonfiglio | |
style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|2009
|"Rock n' Roll" | Nicholaus Goossen |
"Get U Home" |
=Guest appearances=
- Andre Legacy – Bender (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Andre Legacy – DJ Dying (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Beardo – Back to the Valley (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Mr. Lil' One/Lil' Uno – Love Like Magic (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Mickey Avalon – What Do You Say (feat. Cisco Adler, Dirt Nasty & Andre Legacy)
- The Pricks – Brown Eyes (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Stallionaires – Summer Love Child (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Wiz Khalifa – Hey Girl (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Jesse Scott – Hands Up (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Big B – My Baby Says (feat. Cisco Adler)*
- MOD SUN – Jam On! (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Kidd Russell – Are We having fun yet (feat. Cisco Adler)
- Kidd Russell – Wake Up (feat. Cisco Adler)
Production discography
Studio albums
- Shwayze – Shwayze
- Shwayze – Let It Beat
- Shwayze – Rich Girls
Cody Simpson – Free
Selected songs
- Chris Young the Rapper – 619
- Get Romantic
- Stadium Rap
- Chris Young the Rapper – The Value Pack
- Get It RIght
- Mickey Avalon – Mickey Avalon
- Jane Fonda
- Mr. Right
- Mickey Avalon – Electric Gigolo
- What Do You Say
- Stroke Me
- Mike Posner – 31 Minutes to Takeoff
- Do U Wanna?
- Gone in September
- Wiz Khalifa
- Hey Girl
- Dirt Nasty – Nasty as I Wanna Be
- Big in Japan
- So L.A.
- Lookin' for a Nasty Girl
- Big B – Good Times & Bad Advice
- My Baby Says
Filmography
- MTV Video Music Awards 2008
- Tropic Thunder (2008, soundtrack)
- Buzzin (2008, TV)
- The Rock Life (2007)
- 27 Miles (2005)
- Grind (2003, soundtrack)
- A Token for Your Thoughts (2003, soundtrack)
- Sweetie Pie (2000)
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|0012126}}
- [http://www.whitestarr.com Official Whitestarr website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080218022225/http://www.eatskeet.com/author/cisco/ Cisco Adler's Blog on Eat Skeet]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070905022928/http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_rock_life/series_about.jhtml VH1's The Rock Life]
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