V Factory Monroe became lead singer of
V Factory shortly after high school. On April 29, 2008, their
These Are The Days EP was released on
iTunes, including "Round and Round", "She Bad" (featuring
E-40), and the namesake, "These Are the Days" produced by
Bryan Todd. In May 2008, V Factory performed on Johnny Wright's Bandemonium Tour alongside
Menudo and
NLT. V Factory's first single, "Love Struck", was released to iTunes on February 3, 2009. The single broke top 40 on mainstream radio peaking at No. 37 and No. 70 on the Pop 100.[4] The song was produced by Swedish production team Twin. V Factory shared the stage with other notable artists such as
Kelly Clarkson,
Pitbull,
M.C. Hammer, and
Flo Rida before ultimately disbanding in 2009.
Solo Recording career In 2011, under the shortened name 'Asher Monroe', he began co-writing and producing new songs with various Los Angeles based talent. When Monroe's first solo music video for "Like I Do" was released on YouTube, it garnered up more than 1.6 million views, half of them within the first 24 hours. His second music video "Hello Baby" was featured on the
Huffington Post and
Forbes. "Every Night" (released in late February 2012) garnered over 2.5 million views just prior to a 20 city co-headlining national tour. After the tour, Monroe founded independent music label D Empire Entertainment with global activist and entrepreneur
Diana Jenkins. The song was added to full rotation on nationally broadcast radio station
Sirius XM, and entered the top ten on
Billboard charts. In Feb 2013, Monroe released a remix EP for "Here With You" featuring remixes by
Grammy nominated DJ,
Dave Aude and
Sick Individuals. Monroe co-wrote and produced his next July 2013 release "Hush Hush" alongside Alon Levitan in Hollywood Hills, CA. Monroe filmed the music video for "Hush Hush" in
Bosnia Herzegovina with
Academy Award winner
Danis Tanovic. "Hush Hush" became a top 10
Billboard song and was featured on
MTV and
Perez Hilton. "Hush Hush" was Monroe's first D Empire Entertainment release with new distribution partner Ingrooves/Fontana. In December 2012, D Empire Entertainment secured a joint venture/album collaboration between Monroe,
Chris Brown and Senior VP of A&R for
Def Jam,
Bu Thiam. In late 2013, Monroe wrote and recorded new material with
Chris Brown and recording artist
Sean Kingston at the
Record Plant in Los Angeles, CA. In December 2013, Monroe released his "Christmas Is Here To Stay" EP on iTunes, featuring the title track as well as the ballad "Warm Winter Night". Both songs included music videos directed by Giuliano Bekor. In February 2014, Monroe released the music video "Memory" featuring
Chris Brown (co-written by Monroe, Justin Tarin, and
Chris Brown) == Discography ==