Miguel (singer)
Miguel was first signed to a local record label Drop Squad in 2000, then signed to independent record label Black Ice in 2004. During this period, Miguel had been asked to make music similar to music group B2K. For nearly a year, Miguel's manager at the time submitted various songs to music mogul Mark Pitts; After receiving a song titled "Sure Thing", which Miguel described as a "highly personal...record that no one was ever supposed to hear", Pitts scheduled a meeting with Miguel in October 2007. The following month, Miguel signed a recording contract with Jive Records. Miguel recalled that his contract signing took place in a "very small room in a very small office in a small corner of the building at Jive". Since then, he has contributed to Usher's Here I Stand and Raymond v. Raymond, as well as Asher Roth's Asleep in the Bread Aisle and Musiq Soulchild's "IfULeave".