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Ace A Caped Crusade has completed his most recent album, “XV” which is a compilation of great rap songs. His rap flow is suave or smooth. The production quality is equally high. The drum beats, synths, piano and the electric guitars added thir fair share of vibe as Ace A Caped Crusade takes you on a ride you will never forget in a hurry. All the songs in the album are selected for your listening delight or pleasure.

The love Ace A Caped Crusade found in the streets and other external influence in his youthful days, especially in the arms of a love interest where he proposes to be her roses rather than sending her flowers is described in “Roses”. The slow rap pattern also continues in this track with the beat pattern being 4/4.

“R.I.P” is characterized by a slow piano chord. Here, Ace A Caped Crusade raps about the hate and the negative energy he gets from people, the criticisms he faces as his haters try to get him off his game by wishing him dead. Typically, he only has one message for them which is same as what they wish him, if they do not face their business. The tracks rigs of strong theme, violence and language, but the delivery is good

The quest for self-discovery, the search for answers to all the questions of life, his divinity which seeks to set the puzzles of life straight are all captured in this track titled “Reality”. Ace A Caped Crusade sees himself in the eyes of his “hommies” while seeking reality. He also raps about how his friends also seek answers through him, while some get into trouble and dying since they are not as successful as he is. He also raps about how he looks out for his friends

In “Home”, Ace A Caped Crusade elucidates all his fears in life while going down memory lane, the lessons learnt on the “home front” and what to expect in future while reiterating the “home” as being his beacon of hope amidst all this. The electric guitar sounds reflected the vibe from the song.

“Red wine” is also a great track anyone can listen to at any day or time.

The lyrics of the songs contain strong themes of violence and languages, hence the need for activation of parental control.

Natalie Jean is an award winning, multi-nominated singer/songwriter performer. She is also a Voting Member in the Recording Academy (GRAMMYS). Natalie Jean is a versatile performer and singer. She sings and writes for many genres , such as Jazz, Pop, R&B, Blues, World, Rock, Country, Americana, Inspirational, Adult Contemporary, Alternative, and, Dance. She can also sing in French, Spanish, English, and Haitian Creole. Natalie Jean is mostly influenced by artists such as Lena Horne, Celine Dion, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and Ella Fitzgerald. She has performed at many venues in the MD/DC. She also has   performed in LA, New York ,Nashville, and North Carolina. She also appeared on WPFW, a Jazz station in Washington DC. She has been nominated over 100 times for her music and has won many awards. She has released six albums, Obsession, Natalie Jean, Lecons D’Amour, Unafraid, Haiti Mwen Renmenw, and Where Do We Go From Here?. She has also released several singles.

The Improvement of he’s new single “stand by me, is now producing a good and unique result.

Dr. Michael C. Wheeler’s review:

We are pleased to announce our first winner in the category of Best International Artist: Mr. Phil Joseph. An ambition of ours here at Current Music Thoughts was to bring to our readers excellence in music making within the independent world – and I’m sure you know how many artists there are to hear. That being said, there are individuals who are making music that just jumps out and screams to be acknowledged. Such an artist is London-based Phil Joseph and his unique, tasteful, and masterful rendition of the classic Ben King tune “Stand by Me.” It has upbeat dance and reggae elements which breathe new life into the track as if giving it a second-wind during the midnight of the original’s popularity. 

Featuring the rapper Malik on the verses it is original and yet at the same time such a beautiful homage to classic American music. This reason, more than any other, is merit enough for the award as in a period of waning interest in the USA Mr. Joseph gives us a positive nod. It’s a love song – but at the same time we’re all wondering if there is a dual meaning saying “stand by me and everything is going to be OK” and from this side of the pond, we appreciate it. Congratulations Mr. Joseph on an outstanding achievement, we will be anxiously awaiting many more tunes.

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The Long Goodnight is a new collaboration from two old friends who have worked together in music for more than 10 years and share a love of Swedish pop music. Their first forthcoming EP, Good Songs, will be a collection of songs written/co-written by Salem Al Fakir (currently of the songwriting/production duo Vargas and Lagola — their songs having been recorded by artists including Katy Perry, Madonna, and Avicii). COVID-19 has created many artistic collaborations across the globe and this unique duo has been a long time coming. The Long Goodnight’s debut single, “Brooklyn Sun” is a dreamy, hopeful nod to the New York sky and will be released via social media and electronic distribution platforms on Sept. 10, 2020. Recorded at Reseda Ranch Studios and Studio Chlo by Fernando Perdomo (All Instruments) and Chloe Dolandis (lead vocals, background vocals) respectively. All songs mixed by Zach Ziskin. Brooklyn Sun Written by Salem Al Fakir and Nate Campany Produced by Fernando Perdomo and Chloe Dolandis Chloe Dolandis – Lead and Backing Vocals Fernando Perdomo – Guitars, Fernotronics, Bass, Keys, Tongue Drum, Frame Drum Mixed and Mastered by Zach Ziskin Video Edited by Nathalie Malpica Footage Found by Cyndi Trissel, Fernando Perdomo and Chloe Dolandis Song License by Harry Fox Songfile Single Available on Itunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play and More.

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The Long Goodnight is Echo In The Canyon Guitarist Fernando Perdomo and Critically Acclaimed Singer and Voice Over Artist Chloe Dolandis. They come together with a combined obsession with Swedish Pop music. Their first EP is the songs of Salem Al Fakir who went on to be the voice of Avicci and a hit songwriter for Katy Perry, Madonna, and more.. 

Here is the gorgeous new single Brooklyn Sun. Written by Salem Al Fakir and Nate Campany. It is a heartwarming combo of gorgeous vocals and dreamy guitars. Fernando Perdomo used Frippertronics to create the layers of swirling sound. 

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Frans Janousek born 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden, discovered the Synthesizers in mid eighties and took years of pianolessons. He has written music since then and also developed into remixing great artists such as Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Roxette, Christina Aguilera, Bruno Mars, Journey, The Royal Concept, Sanna Nielsen, Euro Latin Beats, Style, General Knas, Bodies Without Organs, E-Type, and more. He has had two “Music Hit of the week” in Swedish National Radio twice with two famous Swedish artists. Frans also visits music camps to write with international artists, musiccomposers and is DJing in nightclubs at weekends.

“I discovered music actually when I was 4 years old, listening to my parents vinly records all kinds of genre, for hours and just got inspired. Started to play drums on books to the music and also sang preformed in front of my partens, though I´m still a lousy singer haha. But I knew I was going to work with music in some way, I grew up with the late 70´s disco era and the 80s pop and new wave music that formed me a lot. Beginning of 90´s I discovered hard rock and indieacts, alternative music and liked it as well. Also started to listen to, 50- 60´s music that catched my vibe. After that I got very open minded to all kind of music and that has helped me when I write songs in different genres, or playing DJing”

Since beginning of the 90´s I started to DJ-ing at nightclubs, also a member in a coverband playing the keyboard at houndreds of pubs and home-weddingparties. But that got me skilled to know what the people wanted to hear, in that time or environment. Since late 90´s I started to get in touch with professional artist, singers, record companies and also had such luck that i released a single in Japan for a Japanese boyband beginning of year 2000. That was cool. Since then I´ve worked hard everyday, developed myself to be even better writing music, producing, and DJing. And I´m still working hard, but having the wonderful time of my life creating music in all kinds of forms.

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Frans Janousek is a faboulous skilled music composer, DJ and has a sense for making hits and musical hooks.” 

“Frans Janousek is an awesome DJ that gives and spreads energy and adops the music wherever he plays. Always with 110% passion”

“Great songwriter that gives energy, works fast and is quick with ideas. Great listener and a humble person”

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Snow Flakes’ style as an “afro pop/afro beat” artist from Nigeria and Togo is unique. His delivery is captivating. He dishes out smooth flow of organic songs and has released his long awaited album, “No Nation”. “No Nation” is a balance of emotive, upbeat love songs and the reawakening of the socially conscious ones. The songs on the album are an explicit cross-border African experience.

“Make You Know” is a cool afro beat “jam” in the album. It has all the elements that make up a great song. From the dazzling effect of the crystallizing drum play to the perfect arrangement of the sharp instrumentals. This song is definitely a cynosure of magisterial efforts. Snow Flakes sings about showing affection and doing everything within his power to please a love interest while also getting similar energy from same, in return.

“Wa” is another track that has all the ingredients to make it a hit. This song is a “bombshell” and can give any of the genre’s “A” list artist a run for his or her money. In this song, Snow Flakes sings about calling a girl with an amazing body, a body shape that inspires him to dance, for talks. With the chorus sung in Africa’s “Yoruba” language, this song will have all the ladies shake “what their mama gave them” and the guys lost in street afro dance steps.

Sometimes, when you fall in love with a wrong girl, it is capable of killing a man. This is what is depicted in “She Kill Man”, where Snow Flakes sings about desiring a girl, which could later spiral him into a dangerous loop. The music video begins with scenes of Snow Flakes and a video vixen who plays the role of his love interest, sleeping on the same bed in a house, after which Snow Flakes wakes up all of a sudden with an empty bottle of wine in his hand. He immediately recollects what happened the previous night with respect to the sensual intimate moments he shared with the girl. He also picks a spent cigarette that was dropped during his “hangover” or while he was asleep by a known intruder in who’s house Snow Flakes first set his eyes on his love interest, while also observing an empty picture frame, with the inscription “She kill man” which was written by the known intruder. The song begins with clips of events that happened prior, like Snow Flakes meeting the girl and the “would be” intruder to sign some paper works, alternating with scenes of Snow Flakes singing and some choreographers performing their acts.

The rest of his “No Nation” album consist of great songs like “Dangote”, Champion”, “Everyday”, “Criminal”, etc which are fantastic songs in their own rights. There is no doubt in my mind that Snow Flakes has what it takes, including the “stay power” to dominate the afro beats space for a long time, on the strength of his precocious talents and musical acumen. A great album indeed.

Chloe and Halle are very much sisters, but they are not twins. Chloe Bailey was born July 1, 1998, and her younger sister Halle Bailey was born March 27, 2000. Considering they are less than two years apart, it’s no surprise that people might think they are twins. Not to mention, they play twins on grown-ish, Freeform’s spinoff of black-ish. In December, Halle opened up about what it’s like to play her older sister’s twin.

“Me and Chloe, we feel like we’re twins all the time. Sometimes we forget that I’m the younger sister,” Halle told EW at the time. “We talk the same, we interrupt each other, and say the same thing when we’re watching shows all the time. It’s really trippy, but it’s a blast. She’s my best friend, and we just were really channeling ourselves for the characters, though it’s also our alter egos with their sassiness and attitude.”

In addition to the sisters’ joint foray into the acting world on grown-ish, Chloe and Halle are best known for their music career. The sisters first showed off their musical chops on YouTube as preteens. In March 2018, Chloe told TIME:

The very first YouTube cover we ever posted was to “Best Thing I Never Had” by Beyonce. I think I was 13 years old, and my sister was 11. We were in our basement; our older sister recorded it for us. We didn’t expect much; we were happy about the first 100 views.

Pretty quickly, their YouTube videos started going viral, and Chloe x Halle appeared on The Ellen Show, Chloe told TIME. Then, in 2012, they won Radio Disney’s Next BIG Thing Competition, Oh My Disney reported. Since then, they have continued making music, releasing an EP in 2013, another in 2016, and then their first full mixtape, The Two of Us, in 2017.

This past March, they finally released their first full studio album, The Kids Are Alright, Pitchfork reported. They made headlines for their hands-on approach, with Chloe producing most of the album, and with both young women working on all of the songs. Halle opened up about the importance of her and Chloe having autonomy over the album in a March interview. She told Vulture:

Our parents always taught us from a young age that we can do anything we put our minds to and not to be afraid to dive in to do something that may not be considered things for little girls to be doing. My sister is so inspiring to me when she produces. And we write all of our songs from our living room. It’s fun for us.

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Phil Joseph, born in Birmingham, England has had a lifelong deep interest in music and over 25 years experience in the music industry.

Having released an album in 1995, entitled ‘Heartbreaker’, Phil has proved popular in Europe gaining regular airplay in Belgium, Spain, France and Germany.  One track from the album, a cover of the Nat King Cole classic ‘Unforgettable’, and a personal favourite of Phil’s, has been reworked and remixed in 1999 and is currently generating plenty of interest and positive feedback from radio stations and local press in Germany and Spain.

Over the past few years, he has worked with artists including Pato Banton, Steel Pulse and Bashara.

This follows an already popular release of Phil’s version of Patsy Cline’s ‘He’s Got You (She’s Got You)’, which was a real ground breaker for Phil in the European market.

To further illustrate his extensive involvement in music, Phil is currently performing in Clubs throughout the UK and also abroad.

Phil Joseph’s music styles are soul, motown, hip hop, and reggae. 

Phil Joseph:- singer, songwriter and performer from a very early age. I started my recording career in the late 70’s with Tony Owens, who was at that time managing Musical Youth. I love soul, reggae, and dance music of most types and of course my hero Nat King Cole.

You can find my five solo albums and countless singles available for sale or download here within my website. I am presently recording a new album. It includes some of my favourite songs of all time. I left some previews for you to listen to. I average around 120 shows a year and would love to see you there. I am always available for gigs and would be interested in working with artists in any genre.

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My name is Jordan Ramble and I’m from Trenton, NJ. I’m a Man of God, Dad, and an Artist; in that order lol.

I didn’t grow up in Christian home. I was raised by my dad, at a young age he took me from my mother. Til this day she tells me that my dad told her he was taking me to get pampers, and he just never came back.

I was blessed to be reconciled to her when I got saved, which was around 2014 and we are still building. My dad wasn’t into church, I know his family was, but he just kept me isolated from that life. He was born in Liberia and they were heavy in ministry but when he came to the states I guess he just did his own thing.

I had ZERO knowledge of Christ.

I mean, I had heard about him but I had no interest in getting to know him.

Senior year of high school I transferred schools twice and then I eventually dropped out and during that time period I was so depressed. My dad was always sending me motivational sermons and he would always say, “Son you could be whatever you want to be if you just put your mind to it.” It was around that time I got into Hip-Hop. I heard it tons of times but I just never got in to it. I was a huge Big Sean fan! And as crazy as it may sound, God used Big Sean to stir something up in me and I thought to myself, “I could rap too”, lol.

At that time, the talk about the illuminati and secret societies were heavy and I was one of those curious guys, I’d stay up and look in to it. My Dad was working crazy labor jobs so I rarely saw him but we were always on the phone and he would give me money to spend, so I was good. I remember one day he called me and said he had befriended this guy and the guy had some literature he wanted him to check out that would help him become successful, and sure enough

it was an invitation to a secret society.

My dad had no real interest in it but when he told me about it I pressed him to pursue and they sent a book to our home and I studied it!

From that moment I became an atheist. I truly believed that I was God. I kept it for a while before sharing it with anybody. It was my secret. Before I knew it my life was surrounded by darkness. I had a close friend I shared it with when I moved in with him and his mom, she kicked us both out! Before moving, the book just disappeared. After that, I couldn’t get ahead in life after going in circles a few times. I cried to God and begged him to show up in my life if he was real. I remember that night too. I was sitting in my 1987 Caprice box Chevy (it was so clean) I was crying out to God, smoking a cigarette and asking for forgiveness. At that time I was living with a girlfriend and her mom, my baby mama at the time, who’s my wife now, was in a shelter with my sons. I had just got my GED but I still felt empty. From that day I cried, God started proving His existence. I had no intentions on being a rapper for Jesus or anything like that. I just needed to know if he was real.

It was more so curiosity that compelled me to Christ and I know now that it was grace. 

The best advice I would give to anyone that’s struggling is to seek God, not for things, not for position, or for what He can do for you. Seek Him to know Him for who He truly is and you will find Him. – Deuteronomy 4:29

Since I got saved, I’ve stayed saved and I don’t miss anything behind me. I wish I would have been saved in high school. The focus now is completely different lol but I thank God for the process. He’s constantly building, perfecting, and pushing me to be a better Man, Dad, and Artist! 

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J-Matic” an aspiring Bimusical Artist (Hip Hop/Afro Beats/Reggae). His love for rap music, poetry, fueled him to make music and entertain through different musical systems, and making expressive sense of all.

currently gearing up to release his first EP ” Bimusical Experiment”, a mix of hip hop, AfroBeats, and Dancehall. The EP is a feel good type of vibe that touches on current relationship scenarios. 
 

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