Name	John Forte
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	30-January-1975
Place of Birth	Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Famous for	Singing

John Forte is a Grammy-nominated American recording artist, composer, music producer, educator and activist. He achieved fame while writing, producing and performing with the celebrated hip hop group The Fugees during the 1990s, and has released four solo albums, including his most recent effort, Water Light Sound, released in September 2011. Forte has collaborated with a range of diverse musicians and is known for a profound understanding and appreciation of a broad range of musical genres, spanning from hip hop to indie folk to classical music. Forte is also Chief Executive Officer of Le Castle, a company he founded in 2011 to manage his upcoming projects in music, film and other creative fields.

In January 2010, Forte's work was featured throughout the Sundance Film Festival, where, in addition to performing at the ASCAP Music Cafe, he scored all of the opening festival trailers, had the end credit song in the film Night Catches Us, and participated in a unique audio and visual collaborative effort with Joe Gordon-Levitt at hitrecord.org. In the spring of 2010, Forte and his band participated in a successful 15-city tour with K'Naan, Wale and Tabi Bonney. Forte founded a production company called Le Castle in 2011 to manage the various projects that he has undertaken in music, film and other fields. In February 2011, Le Castle produced a 9-week tour through Russia. Titled "From Brooklyn to Russia with Love!", the tour took Forte and his band – including bassist Brian Satz, percussionist Ryan Vaughn and keyboardist Patrick Firth – across Russia, from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Ekaterinburg, and other smaller locales along the Trans-Siberia Railway. Among the artists with whom Forte collaborated in Russia were Sunsay, Natasha Bedingfield, Evgeny Margulis, Alina Orlova, Billy's Band, Zero People, uma2rman, Emch Subatomic, Sergei Skrypka's State Symphony Cinema Orchestra, Romario, and more. All proceeds from the tour were donated to local orphanages and the international foundations Operation Smile and Petra Nemcova's Happy Hearts Fund. In September, Forte's begin releasing his first full-length album in 10 years, Water Light Sound. The album features collaborations with international stars John Legend, Natasha Bedingfield, Talib Kweli, HD Fre, AZ, Colin Munroe, and Valerie June. One of the tracks called “Your Side” (produced by Dallas Austin) was placed in EA FIFA World Cup 2010.

Water Light Sound will be launched in three vignettes. The first vignette "The Water Suite" will be made available to the public after an exclusive performance in Moscow on 27 September 2011, with Sunsay, an acclaimed artist from Ukraine with whom Forte collaborated on the hit single "Windsong." From Moscow, Forte will continue his promotional tour to such cities as Stockholm, London, Paris, and Casablanca. The two remaining vignettes will be launched over the following months. Forte also appeared on an episode of "NY Ink" January 2012.