Caillat in concert at the Frannz Club in          Colbie Caillat performing at the Malibu Inn
Berlin, Germany on November 17, 2007.      in Malibu, California on October 26, 2007

Colbie Caillat (born Colbie Marie Caillat on May 28, 1985 in Newbury Park, California) is an American pop
singer-songwriter and guitarist from Malibu, California. Her father, Ken Caillat, co-produced Fleetwood
Mac's Rumours and Tusk albums; Caillat recalls being around the likes of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie as
a child.

Caillat is noted for her MySpace profile which led her to become the number-one unsigned singer in her
genre for four months. Her popularity on the social network was partially due to her song "Bubbly". Her
profile has garnered over thirty-one million plays. For the week of July 17, 2007, "Bubbly" was featured
on the iTunes Store as the free "Single of the Week". The promotion coincided with the release of Coco,
her debut studio album. Caillat was also spotlighted by Rhapsody during the 2007 Black Friday Sale at Best
Buy.

According to her MySpace profile, Caillat was first inspired to start singing at age eleven when she first
heard the Fugees' 1996 version of the song "Killing Me Softly", made famous by Roberta Flack in 1973. Her
MySpace profile also cites that, though trained at piano from an early age, Caillat did not begin playing
guitar until age nineteen. Caillat performed a duet with Jason Mraz called "Lucky" on his upcoming album,
We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things, which will be released on May 20, 2008.

By age 21, Californian vocalist Colbie Caillat had evolved swiftly from an aspiring R&B/folk singer to a
pop sensation with the marketing assistance of a little networking tool called Myspace. She grew up in
Malibu and Ventura County and caught the music bug at an early age from her father Ken Caillat, an
established audio engineer who helped produce Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Tusk. Songs were often mixed at
the console in her Malibu beach house, filling the corridors with the sound of Billy Idol, Pat Benatar,
and other '80s pop/rock. To her astonishment, when she added the single "Bubbly" to the site, people
latched on to the catchy hook. As word of mouth spread, her page pulled in a few thousand hits a day;
after she had accumulated 6,240 friends, Rolling Stone highlighted her as one of the top female artists on
Myspace. For four months, she was the number one unsigned artist, and garnered over 14 million plays.
With such an appealing statistic on her résumé, record labels began courting her and she signed to
Universal Republic, as her number of online friends surpassed the 100,000 mark. In July of 2007, her label
released Coco. ~ Jason Lymangrover, All Music Guide