Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14, 1993) is an American teen actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Megan Parker in “Drake and Josh”, Summer Hathaway in “School of Rock” and as Carly Shay in “iCarly”. Her career began in 2001 when she was spotted by an agent who was so impressed by her singing and dancing in a restaurant called “Taste of LA” that he signed her up for a number of small roles in commercials.|Cosgrove made her music debut in 2007, singing the theme song for “iCarly” called “Leave It All to Me”, which features her “Drake and Josh” lead actor, Drake Bell and written by Drake’s fellow band member. On June 10, 2008 the soundtrack to “iCarly” was released, including “Leave It All to Me” and three other songs, including the next singles, the cover of Amy Diamond’s song “Stay My Baby”, and “About You Now”, originally by the Sugababes, and another track called “Headphones On”.
Cosgrove’s version of “About You Now” reached number forty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was later featured on the hit compilation album “Now That’s What I Call Music!”
On December 23, 2008, Cosgrove released a cover of the song “Christmas Wrapping” as a digital download.
It has also been revealed that Cosgrove is in the middle of recording her debut solo album, possibly with a collaboration with the band “Boys Like Girls”. She was helped by famous pop producers the Matrix and Dr. Luke for her debut album. The album will include songs co-written by Cosgrove.
An extended play entitled “About You Now” was released on February 3, 2009. It included two new tracks, “Party Girl” and “FYI.” It also included the single “About You Now,” as well as remixes of “About You Now” and the previously released “Stay My Baby”. |
