Biography

Qwanell Anthony Mosley (born on September 29, 1988 in Rochester, New York), better known as "Que", is an American singer who is best known for being a contestant, and winner on the hit TV show Making the Band 4. He was the youngest member of the group Day26 signed to Bad Boy Records, along with their former label members, Danity Kane and Donnie Klang. Que was one of the five members of the group including, Robert Curry, Willie Taylor, Brian Andrews, and Michael McCluney.

In January 2007 Mosley went on MTV's hit TV show "Making The Band 4" and left Five Towns College where he studied business and audio engineering. Que auditioned at a club in New York City where he made it through three cuts in order to audition for Sean Combs. In season 1, after beating out numerous contestants for a spot in Sean Combs' guy group; Mosley, Robert Curry, Micheal McCluney, Brian Andrews, and Willie Taylor were put into the group Day 26. The name Day26 was an inspiration of the date they were selected, August 26, 2007.

In late 2007, the show came back for a second season, with the group working on their first studio album (self titled Day26)

After being signed as a group to Bad Boy, Day 26 began another season of Making the Band with label mates Danity Kane and Donnie Klang. Upon this season, Day 26's debut single "Got Me Going" was released to download in January, 2008. "Got Me Going" eventually peeked at #79 on the Billboard Hot 100. Day 26 later released their self-titled album Day26 on March 25, 2009. The next week, the album debuted at #1 on Billboard 200 selling 200,000 copies. This is the third feat. at #1 for Bad Boy winners. Album production includes Mario Winans, Danja, Bryan-Michael Cox, The Runners, and upon many others. The second single "Since You've Been Gone" was released on June 9, 2008. The song failed to reach Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at #52 on Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. A third single was planned, but was scrapped due to low album sales, and production on their next album. Overall, the album sold 387,000 copies.

Upon album release of their second studio album "Forever in a Day", season 3 of Making the Band 4 re-aired in February, 2009. This time, the season focused around getting the album finished. The production resulted a promo release of the song "Stadium Music" which later was up for discussion as the second official release for the album. The first official single "Imma Put It on Her", was released to iTunes on March 31, 2009. The single peaked at #79 on the Billboard Hot 100. The video for the second hit single "Stadium Music" premiered on May 29, 2009, on 106 & Park. Day26 won the BET Award for Best Group at the 2009 BET Awards.

---Solo Career---

Q Files

2010
After a short break Qwanell partnered with Industry Executive Cliff Jones of Washington, D.C. based production Soul World Entertainment in early 2010 with buzz about his new solo mixtape which he titled "The Q Files", immediately dropping his first single, "Shake That". After promoting his project via Twitter, Ustream, along with a strand of YouTube videos which he titled "Countdown to Day 26", Que held a listening party in Washington, D.C. at the Recess Lounge where it received positive reviews. The Q Files (hosted by DJ QuickSilva) was released on March 22, 2010. The mixtape consists of 11 tracks, and features artists such as Lil Mo, Dawn Richard, D.C. Don Juan, Kingpen Slim, Bear Witnez and others.

Guitar-Her Mixtape

Que and singer Desiree Jordan at Guitar Her event, Washington, DC
Qwanell released a mixtape on December 11, 2010 of the same moniker composed of only seven tracks of all original material. The release, which was exclusively promoted via his official Twitter account, and made available for download on his Guitar-Her web page, received much praise and fanfare to the tune of a combined 250,000 downloads and hits to the mixtape in its first week debut, the 7 song mixtape garnered the attention of Concreteloop.com, the popular online R&B magazine Singer's Room and a feature on BET.com Sound-Off Spotlight, as well as a host of underground and independent blogs, and magazines, including online radio talk-shows.

See Me - Single

2012
New Years Day (January 1, 2012) Qwanell (aka AnthonyQ) released his first solo commercial single entitled "See Me" on iTunes through Interscope. Inspite of its leak, days early of the release, (December 28, 2011) Que's highly anticipated single received an enormous amount of attention and support from the media and fans. Supporting media such as http://www.singersroom.com where Que and his new single "See Me" were featured, receiving roughly 70,000 views within the first 72 hours. All exclusive of many other notable features on several other popular blog/webistes such as VIBE.com and ConcreteLoop.com where Que's "See Me" single made the V-Playlist at number 4.
The song was both written and produced by HyerHytz Production League and engineered by Ken Lewis who's work includes albums such as Jay Z and Kanye's Watch the Throne, Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Usher's Confessions Album.

According to singersroom.com "Que will go head to head with his former group Day26 in 2012 as they are both scheduled to release projects."