Paramore

Hailing from Frankin, Tennessee, Paramore is a Grammy Award nominated pop/punk band fronted by Hayley Williams. Paramore became a household name when their song "Decode" became the lead single of the soundtrack of hit vampire movie Twilight.http://www.last.fm/music/Hayley+Williams/+wiki Brand New Eyes, Paramore's third album, received a gold rating by the RIAA for selling an excess of half a million albums.http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=Paramore&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2009&sort=Artist&perPage=25 It also won the Kerrang best album award, which allowed voters to vote for their pick unlimited times.http://foreign.peacefmonline.com/entertainment/201007/65117.php Paramore fans voted on MTV Newsroom Blog to have Paramore play "Playing God" on the 2010 edition of the MTV Video Music Awards.http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/08/30/paramore-vma-poll-results/

Paramore formed in 2004. They released their debut album, All We Know is Falling, in 2005. It reached #30 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart but failed to chart on the Billboard 200. In 2007, Paramore released their second studio album Riot. It reached #15 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold.

• 2005: All We Know Is Falling
• 2007: Riot!
• 2009: Brand New Eyes

Born in Meridian, Mississippi on December 27, 1988, Hayley Williams moved to Tennessee at the age of 14. The brothers Josh and Zac Farro introduced her The Cure, U2, Sparta, and Failure. Williams has two sisters. When Paramore released their first album, she was only 17. Hayley Williams has begun to work outside of Paramore. Her solo "Teenagers" debuted on the dark comedy film Jennifer's Body. Hayley has also teamed up with rapper B.O.B, singing the chorus of "Airplanes."http://www.last.fm/music/Hayley+Williams/+wiki