Unlike many acts, the members of Day26 didn't know one another long before they became a group. Instead, singers Brian Andrews, Mike McCluney, Qwanell Mosley (aka "Q"), Robert Curry and Willie Taylor met as contestants on the fourth season of the MTV series Making the Band and were the five men chosen by Sean "Diddy" Combs to comprise his latest pre-fab R&B act. The group's moniker, Day26, was chosen as a reference to the date in August 2007 when their fate as a group was decided on the show's live season finale.
Having "made the band," the new bandmates left their homes -- Taylor hails from Chicago, Curry a Detroit native, Andrews calls Houston home, McCluney is from South Carolina and Mosley is from Rochester, N.Y. -- to concentrate on recording their self-titled debut for Diddy's Bady Boy Records label. Their time in the studio was chronicled on Making the Band, where executive producer Diddy challenged Day26, fellow MTB4 alum Donnie and MTB3 girl-group Danity Kane to record their albums in just three weeks.
Day26 features production from Mario Winans (Diddy, The Notorious B.I.G) The Runners (T.I., Chris Brown) and Bryan Michael Cox (Usher, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey) on songs Day26 delivers with soulful, sincere harmonies that recall 1990s R&B. The album is led by the Winans-produced single "Got Me Going."
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