J-14 is scouting out the hottest music around... and this week's pick is Eric Nicolau!
Here are five things you need to know about Eric Nicolau, whose debut EP Won't You Stay drops tomorrow!
1. It was a trip to Brazil in the winter of 2008 that inspired 24-year-old Eric Nicolau to leave his home in Detroit, MI, and head west to L.A. to chase after his big dreams -- inspired by his father, a guitarist in a Top 40 cover band. "I had always entertained the idea and never considered it until one morning I woke up and said, 'what have I got to lose? I'm doing it,'" he tells J-14. "I came back home from the trip and was packed and on the road headed west within a week."
2. This singer-songwriter would best describe his sound as melodic, not constricted by one genre. "It's earthy, a little pop, a little rock, some Latin moments, and some sass," he tells us.