Landon Austin

Landon Austin (born August 8, 1988) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. Originally from Dallas, Texas. He went to high school at the Episcopal School of Dallas and during his freshman year of high school he was a top ten finalist in the Texas 10 under 20 competition. Two years later when Austin was a junior in high school he won the Texas 10 under 20 competition and as part of the grand prize for winning the competition he performed at the Taste of Addison on May 13, 2006.

In May of 2007, Austin and drummer Michael Hernandez created a band called Maywood which performed many shows in the DFW area. In August of 2007, Maywood released an E.P. titled "Feels Like Home."

In August of 2007 Austin joined Youtube under the name Tayzondayfan and began to post Youtube videos of personal music performances. Austin's cover of John Mayer's parody of Tay Zonday's Chocolate Rain gained a significant amount of notoriety on Youtube and increased Austin's subscribers tremendously.

In October of 2007 Austin became a top ten finalist in the National Doritos Crash the Super Bowl Competition. In January 2008 Austin was voted a top three finalist of the competition by online voters. Austin was then flown to L.A. to record a music video for his original song "Waitin.'" Austin along with two other finalists from the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl competition were flown to Phoenix for the Super Bowl. Austin performed at the Saturday Night Super Bowl block party and part of his performance was aired during the pre-game show of the Super Bowl. Austin's song "Waitin'" was then released as a single on iTunes. During Austin's time in Phoenix he recorded a remix of his song with the other two finalists (Kina Grannis and Nivla ft. P. Oberoi). The remix was titled "Still Waitin" and it is currently available for free download on Poberoi.com.

Austin is currently working on releasing his first solo album which is expected to be released May 2008. And Austin's tour dates along with other information can be viewed on his website LandonAustin.com.

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