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Ryan Lewis (born April 15, 1994) is an American former football cornerback who is currently the assistant defensive backs coach for the Colorado Mines Orediggers. He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh .
Lewis was born in Spokane, Washington, to Julie and Scott Lewis.Lewis has two sisters, Teresa and Laura, four years and two years older than he is, respectively. [1] At an early age, he played guitar in rock bands with his childhood best friend Ryan Sanson, and nursed a growing interest in music production around the age of 15.
Lewis produced Macklemore's mixtape The Unplanned, in 2008. [14] They performed together for the first time at Bumbershoot, at the Sasquatch Music Festival in The Gorge Amphitheatre and at the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco. [15] [16] In 2009 they formalized the duo as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and released the debut extended play, The
The song was produced by Ryan Lewis, who co-wrote it with Macklemore. The duo collaborated with artists including Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee and Grandmaster Caz on this track. The music video for "Downtown" featuring Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee and Grandmaster Caz, was also released on August 27, 2015. [6]
"White Privilege II" is a song by American hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis from their second album This Unruly Mess I've Made (2016). The song, a sequel to Macklemore's solo song "White Privilege" from his first album The Language of My World (2005), discusses white privilege and the social movement associated with Black Lives Matter.
In February 2011, Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis kicked off a multi-city tour in Seattle, which included three sold-out shows at the Showbox at the Market music venue. [36] That same year, the rapper appeared at many U.S. music festivals, including Bumbershoot , Outside Lands , Lollapalooza , Rock the Bells , Soundset , Sasquatch , and ...
Macklemore and Lewis released their debut studio album The Heist on October 9, 2012, which charted at number two on the US Billboard 200. The pair was nominated for seven Grammy awards at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards , winning four awards, including Best New Artist , Best Rap Album ( The Heist ), Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance ("Thrift ...
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis also performed the song live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on September 9, 2015. [12] In Australia, "Downtown" entered the Australian Singles Chart at number nine as the second highest debut on the week commencing September 7, 2015. [13] The song rose to number two on the week commencing September 14, 2015 ...