Sacario

Sacario
Sacario in 2008
Sacario in 2008
Background information
GenresHip hop
Occupation(s)Rapper, Songwriter, Executive producer, Filmmaker
Years active2001 – present
LabelsElektra

Jamar Austin, also known as Sacario is an American rapper and songwriter best known for writing the song "If I Could Go" for Angie Martinez.[1] Billboard named the song among the biggest songs of the year in 2002.[2][3] It was featured on Totally Hits 2002: More Platinum Hits, which is Certified Platinum by the RIAA with sales of over 1,000,000 copies.[4]

His first two releases, "Live Big (Car Keys)" (2002) and "If I Could Go", were both included on The Transporter movie soundtrack.[5] In the first deal of its kind EA Trax packaged "If I Could Go" with the NBA Live 2003 video game Soundtrack.[6] The soundtrack sold 1.3 million copies worldwide and was inducted into the Guinness World Records as the "first officially released video game soundtrack to be RIAA certified platinum".[7][8] According to Guinness World Records, NBA Live 2003 soundtrack went platinum in six months.[7][8] In 2004 MTV announced his nomination in the Mixtape Artist of the Year category at The Annual Mixtape Awards.[9]

  1. ^ "BMI songwriter/producer Sacario stops by the New". BMI. 30 June 2002. Retrieved June 30, 2002.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (Billboard Book of Top Forty Hits) 8th Edition (Paperback)". Billboard. ISBN 0823074994.
  3. ^ "The year in music 2002". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2002.
  4. ^ "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved October 29, 2002.
  5. ^ "Track Listings". Amazon. Retrieved September 10, 2002.
  6. ^ "The Sounds of NBA Live 2003". EA Sports. Archived from the original on September 3, 2009. Retrieved February 20, 2003.
  7. ^ a b "First Ever Videogame Soundtrack to go Platinum!". GameZone. Archived from the original on April 18, 2003. Retrieved March 14, 2003.
  8. ^ a b "The first officially-released video games soundtrack to sell over 1 million copies according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is NBA Live 2003, which was confirmed as having platinum status in March 2003, only six months after its launch in October 2002". Guinness World records. Archived from the original on 2011-12-31.
  9. ^ "Peedi Crakk, Lloyd Banks, Whoo Kid Up For Mixtape Awards But strangely, Snoop Dogg got zero nominations this year". MTV. Archived from the original on January 10, 2004. Retrieved Jan 7, 2004.