Music like Colby O'Donis

Colby O'Donis Colón (born March 14, 1989; ) is an American singer. He is perhaps best known as the featured artist in the Lady Gaga single "Just Dance", which spent more than eleven months on the Billboard Hot 100. He is also well known for his lead single on his debut album Colby O titled "What You Got" (featuring Akon), which peaked at number 14 on the Hot 100, and being featured on Akon's song "Beautiful", which peaked at number 19 on the Hot 100.

Colby O'Donis Colón, who is of Puerto Rican and Italian descent, was born in Queens, New York, and grew up there and in Florida. His mother, Olga, is a singer once crowned Miss Puerto Rico in NY, and his father, Freddy "Fast Freddy" Colón is a New York disc jockey who worked on New York station WQHT He was named after Colby O'Donis, a firefighter who was killed while saving his father's life. O'Donis has one sister who is five years older. He has stated that, for seven years, she helped pay for his dance, piano, and guitar lessons out of her own paychecks. His parents first realized his singing talent when he took first place at a talent show by singing a Michael Jackson song when he was only three and a half.