P r o m o t i o n – D i s t r i b u t i o n – A d v e r t i s i n g
Author: Henry Niccodemus
Henry Niccodemus is the Promotion Manager of N I C C project Promo Company, and also well known as the best Artist Promoter Distributor and Business Advertiser in Town.
Nigerian singer Yemi Alade, who recently featured on Beyoncé’s ‘The Lion King: The Gift’ album, as one of nine prominent African artists; as a means to add that extra level of authenticity to the African tale. It’s been a long journey, for opportunities like this present itself to the native Nigerian pop-afrobeat star who is currently in the process of releasing her fourth studio album. To-date the singer has amassed an impressive catalogue of songs, that have created a frenzy in nightclubs across the globe. One such recent release in ‘Bounce’. Which was released only two months ago.
Yet Alade’s fans have been somewhat restless awaiting the release of her fourth studio project – Woman of Steel, which was scheduled for release a month ago. As a means to appease her fans the afrobeat star dropped a couple more single releases – ‘Home’ and ‘Give Dem’.
‘Home’ a little slower and more traditional is an emotional piece. Whist ‘Give Dem’ is a more high-energy afrobeat track. Along with these two single releases Alade also released some artwork teasers, a very regal and impressive image of herself dressed in what seems to be the outfit of an Egyptian Empress such as Nefertiti or MerNeith.
It is now anticipated that the ‘Woman of Steel’ album will finally be released on the 30th August.
Covenant Keeping G O D By Precious Etteh ft. Christian Bakotessa Full Video Premieres On YouTube For The 16th of November2019…By 9am 👉https://youtu.be/SZHS0mUpw00
Big Al Staggs’ new single / video “Been There Done That” is the first of 10 songs off the brand new “SoLo” album that features 10 freshly cooked original compositions.
If you aren’t uplifted by the message, energy and positivity, go see a doctor. This isn’t just another song, it’s an uplifting moment, a tangible positive force that this battered society so desperately needs.
His storied career with the Left Wing Fascists and Moaning Lisas has fueled this epic offering of sheer energy, good vibes and terrific storytelling.
Speaking of storytelling, the lyrical content is one that every man and some ladies can surely relate to.
The tribal chant accompanying Big Al on lead vocals resets the stage for glimpses and memories of nights he can’t remember with friends that he’ll never forget. Just when you’d thought “you’d been there and done that”, “you ain’t seen the likes of her”; a life altering partner who’ll show you “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet”!
This new single and video is produced and directed by the former lead guitarist for Iggy Pop and David Bowie, Stacy Heydon. Stacy is also known for his production work of the rock band Sheriff’s #1 Billboard Hot 100 single “When I’m with You” (Capitol Records).
The music video was filmed in San Clemente CA, and includes actual real life events unfolding as the crew moved from location to location (the arrest scene and the girl in the Target parking lot removing her warmed up burrito from the running engine of her parked car)… yes really!
A perfect fit for the “Been There Done That” theme.
Big Al is from Norfolk Virginia, but his writing is from the heart and his vocal delivery is from his soul.
Check out this new single and please contact us for the complete album release set for this January 1, 2020.
Calle mambo sat down with Topafricmusicvideo.com’s moderator Ricky Ross and explained the concept to their new release entitled “Electro Pachamámico”. This song is definitely hot if you like latin music. Their new Album is entitled “Electro Pachamámico” is a tribute to the diversity and wealth of Latin America and its people, celebrating the continent’s legacy: it is based on indigenous and creole rhythms from the Andes and the Caribbean, featuring the Charango, Quena, ( original instruments from los Andes ) Timbales, Guitar, Moog synthesizer, Güira, the Gaita (indigenous flute from the Colombian Andes) the Tambor Alegre (Afro-Colombian percussion) and more. The result is folklore with driving beats, a modern fusion we named „Música Electropachamámica”. Currently we are based in Berlin. And you can find them on spotify and all media outlets.
Precious Etteh Featuring the Sony Records Signed Artist
Christian Bakotessa on her new single titled
+COVENANT KEEPING G O D+
Had an exclusive live interview on Radio Weser TV / Mixxbosses
92.5 FM in Germany.
The Gospel Pop song went straight up on Radio Chart TOP 15 Tracks
listed as No 1…gain a huge amount of listeners on the first Sunday Show program on Radio Chart-#radiochart…This has also created
attractions and been Aired on other radio networks.
The song is now available on all digital online shop near you.
Amazon-itunes-spotify-Deezer & more.
Biography-https://niccproject.com/precious-etteh/
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You think you may know the road to stardom, but becoming successful in the music business takes time, practice and perseverance. Confidence doesn’t hurt though. Just ask new R&B artist B. Morgan if he knew one day he would eventually get his lyrics, his music and his luck right and he’ll answer you with his trademark: “OFCOURS!”
After a decade-long grind, the 29-year-old Bronx singer is finally on the verge of seeing that his dream was meant to be. Press play on his newest track: “Who Do You Love”,
Lyric Soprano Brenda Marie Turner received formal classical vocal training at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Film from Northwestern University. Based in Berlin, Germany, Brenda sings a variety of genres of music, including classical, jazz, musical theater, gospel, and neo-soul, with various organizations around the globe.
In conjunction with regular performances in operas, recitals, concerts, cabarets, and the like, Brenda has been the soprano soloist for several oratorios, including well known works by Handel, Rutter, Mozart, and Mendelssohn and lesser-known gems by Fanshawe. Additionally, she completed multiple seasons in studio artist programs and as a chorus member at Orlando Opera, Palm Beach Opera, and Cincinnati Opera.
Brenda has performed, in part or entirety, the roles of both Bess and Serena from Porgy and Bess, Lucia, from Lucia di Lammermoor, both Micaela and Frasquita, from Carmen, Lakme, from Lakme, and many other audience favorites. She also participated in the workshops and world premier of the now-popular opera Margaret Garner, and enjoys the challenge of bringing life to new music.
In addition to her singing career, Brenda has more than ten years of experience as a fundraising professional. She holds the Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential and is the founder of Turner Divine Consulting, a firm through which she guides nonprofit organizations to fundraising success.
+++ In collaboration with the Grammy-nominated and esteemed writing and production duo in New York City, Kinetics and One Love (Pitbull, B.o.B, and Nelly), JENNA brings you her latest hit, Drunk and Dreamin’. This is just the first original release from her forthcoming album.
For the third instalment of our newly inaugurated FOCUS Nottingham feature, Ben Standring sits down with the soul-inspired Mollie Ralph to discuss balancing workloads, the debut EP and her determination for the future.
Vivacious red locks cascade over the top of a gleaming Mustang cruising comfortably over London’s iconic Tower Bridge. The vintage sights of the capital’s remarkable architectural landscape balance decadently with a bounding Norah Jones-esque figure swinging around lampposts, testing retro-framed bicycles and permeating colour into the mundane everyday. A viewer might mistake the four minute video as a promotional campaign for a fashion label or a teaser for the latest offering from a Hollywood actress, yet alas not, the video is for single Give It Up and the central figure is a humble, instantaneously likeable character, with roots not in Los Angeles but Nottinghamshire.
Sitting down with the heat of another late-afternoon Summer day reigning down, Mollie Ralph is exhausted and understandably so. ‘I’ve just finished a placement which had fourteen hour shifts so seven until nine, and then went straight down to London on Saturday morning to film the music video, and then back up to Nottingham,’ she laughs through sleep-deprived eyes. A student nurse having to juggle intense work placements in Derby with the early blossoming of a music career, Ralph is a composed figure, who at first clings tightly to the makeshift shield of her bag before letting loose and opening up, her workaholic mindset contrasting the anecdotal horror stories of past exam seasons in which the singer-songwriter confesses she’d cry during every year.
Examining her artistic path, Ralph exclaims ‘I’ve always sung really. I did the typical vocal grading and then my first few gigs were with a guy, a pianist I met from Newark, and I did a couple of Costa Coffee gigs when I was seventeen. They were fun but I sort of wanted to go off on my own a bit so I learnt the guitar myself just basically so I could go to open mic nights in Nottingham so that’s where it started.’ Whilst the city’s vibrant open mic scene led to the singer-songwriter being offered prestigious festival slots at Splendour and Dot to Dot, music had always been drilled in to her creative mindset from an early age, with her father in a band, she explains. ‘I grew up on a lot of eighties crap’ she laughs. ‘I can’t say I am a huge fan but I’ve always listened to the older tunes from Etta James and Billie Holiday. They’ve really influenced me.’
‘I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my own time if it wasn’t something that I was so passionate about, something I want to pursue as a career,’
There’s an inherent timelessness within Ralph’s artistry that gesticulates towards the fifties jazz and soul movements, but similar to contemporaries Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Norah Jones, Ralph desires to shift the precious genre into the twenty-first century. ‘The artwork for the Old Cafe EP cover is like that I guess. I do like to go down the vintage route. I’d like to be perceived like that but also it’s juggling…trying to appeal to a younger audience as well. I want to appear fun and youthful but I also want to be the more classic, Norah Jones kind of artist.’ A quirky, vibrant character who understands Amy Winehouse’ artistry to be a timeless element within music history, she offers gracious company. A curveball question regarding her favourite movie has Ralph gasping and grappling for tenterhooks. ‘You can’t ask that!’ she marvels. ‘Oh my god I don’t know, probably Pulp Fiction. Tarantino is so stubborn I don’t think he’ll come out of retirement. I watched Reservoir Dogs the other day. It’s weird I just love his spin on things it’s amazing.’
With influences spanning creative art-forms and genres, Ralph’s sound core was naturally going to incorporate the maelstrom of vintage and modern day passions she grew up with, yet her debut EP Old Cafe came about mainly as a result of a desire for a portfolio of music to send to festivals and venues. ‘I thought I’ll independently release something to showcase myself,’ she explains. ‘I just wrote some songs that I loved and just went for it and released it.’ Such was the passion and enthusiasm that Ralph had for her debut project that she took the brave step of taking six months out of her nursing degree. ‘It took around six months to make and I’m glad I did it, it’s given me so many great opportunities. It’s how my managers found me…it was really good,’ a wily hesitance is brushed aside by an infectious grin.
When asked about the real-life intricacies of freeing up six months of an academic year, Ralph is graciously honest. ‘My parents weren’t happy, no, but I thought you know what, if this is where my passion truly lies I may as well give it a bash,’ she sighs. ‘They understand why I did it now because they realised it was sick! It was a great experience having a sold-out EP launch at Rough Trade as my first gig as well.’
‘Acoustically you can only achieve a certain sound and that’s not what I wanted.’
A residual warmth lingers deftly in the air, hovering as Ralph examines the making of Old Cafe, the extravagantly produced debut EP which fits a market so desperately in need of a new figurehead. The modern jazz and soul movements were once spearheaded by a war of vocals between Amy Winehouse and Duffy in the mid-2000s. Since then, Duffy has faded into the abyss and Winehouse passed away, leaving the genre free of key female-driven leads, with the likes of Gregory Porter and Leon Bridges coming into the spotlight. Yet, there are smatterings of greatness cast across the sprightly EP, with Give It Up an instant pleaser from the get-go, its liquid-golden delivery tunnelling soothingly into the ears of the haplessly inspired daydreamers and life-long optimists, whilst lyrically its message is one of departure and self-respect.
Co-written with Nottingham stalwart Georgie, Give It Up documents ‘unrequited love…when someone’s not giving you their full attention but you want to be there for them, you want to be their hero, you want them to run to you if they need you…but they’re not.’ A forlorned sigh washes over the typically placid singer-songwriter, who sits with a quaint politeness throughout the interview, yet breaks into glowing periods of enthusiastic chatter later on; her Cheshire Cat grin demonstrating a slight wild-child aura in the singer’s demeanour.
‘Seeing some of the people in Nottingham really going for it is incredible…and I’m just like I want this!’
Addressing the crux of the EP; the shimmering soul-infused textures woven delicately between the layers of jazz and pop foundations, Ralph profusely highlights her need for a creative output that wasn’t rooted in the acoustic sound of the city, despite being partly a product of the open mic community. ‘I didn’t want people to hear my EP and it feel like its too acoustic-based,’ she declares. ‘Acoustically you can only achieve a certain sound and that’s not what I wanted. I did some acoustic shows to finance the EP and I lost myself a little bit. I wanted the full production and because instrumentally I don’t play that well, it’s hard to capture the full-bodied sound.’ Now with a nine-piece backing band behind her, Ralph is ever-closer to the sound she feels characterises her identity. ‘Everyone is just really excited to be involved so we’re trying to think of a name for the band! I’ve got trumpet and saxophone and backing vocalists, it’s amazing.’
An example of the flourishing hive of creativity buzzing around her camp, Nightwalker is perhaps the most avant-garde offering from Ralph to date, straying far from the acoustic path she seemed so traditionally comfortable with. A seductive temptress of a single, working with exquisite yet subtle layers of instrumentation, Nightwalker is a tongue-waggling offering that manages to prise Ralph into small fits of giggles as she explains its inner-workings. ‘Nightwalker…that’s the song about the prostitute! Somebody told me a story about one of their friends who considered going into prostitution. My immediate thoughts were just ‘gosh that’s risky‘, you don’t know who you’re meeting and anything could happen. This story came about in my head and I put pen to paper and that came out. I didn’t really want to be too controversial in my first EP, but I really like the song!’
‘I want to appear fun and youthful but I also want to be the more classic, Norah Jones kind of artist.’
Delving into the writing process behind Nightwalker and it’s clear to see that Ralph thrives off human interaction, picking up subtle anecdotes and conventionally mundane quips before shaping them into songs with a driving story behind them. ‘I’m not that old and haven’t experienced that much, so I take ideas from things that people have told me or movies that have touched me.’ She passionately describes in minute detail the rush that follows after writing a track from the very core of an idea, before offering a side of her personality previously unseen, a ferocious artistic drive for crafting a sustainable sound for the future. Whilst Ralph has started to battle between her goal of becoming a successful artist and the drive to maintain artistic integrity, the integral sonic soundscape that so beautifully frames her voice and songwriting style looks to hold the singer-songwriter in good stead for the coming months. ‘I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my own time if it wasn’t something that I was so passionate about, something I want to pursue as a career,’ she says matter-of-factly, before declaring ‘I’m not too stubborn really! I am good with seeing things from other people’s perspectives. I am open to suggestions as long as it’s good!’
Despite Ralph’s clear-cut drive and determination, there are signs to suggest that she’s opening up to the camaraderie of Nottingham’s music scene. Having met singer-songwriter Chloe Rodgers at school, a friendship later blossomed which led to the two performing together and subsequently collaborating on a joint project. Recording partly next door to Madness at RAK Studios in London, Ralph explains ‘Chloe taught me to harmonise properly, she’s a genius at it. It started from just busking together. We were too scared to go alone so we took it in turns last summer and now we’re writing an EP. Chloe is a lot more folky so it’s trying to work out how to blend that together. I’m obviously a more soulful artist and we want both genres in the mix so she started two tracks, and I started two tracks, and we completed them together.’
With the fruits of Ralph’s collaborative endeavours with another one of Nottingham’s finest singer-songwriters still to come, there is a lot lying on the horizon with new single Traitor coming soon, based on Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and subsequently ‘about being cheated on… a dickhead basically…It’s kind of got Bang Bang vibes.’
Now with the help of a nine-piece band behind her, Ralph’s live show is an intoxicating celebration of soul and jazz, bolstered by the artist’s determination to pursue a career in the music industry. ‘Seeing some of the people in Nottingham really going for it is incredible…and I’m just like ’I want this!’ she projects. Ruminating on the video for Give It Up starts to inject a belief of where Ralph could get to in the future, with a sense of purpose and drive matching her larger-than-life personality. In contrast to the video’s faux dress-up and superstar-glamour pretence, it’s not an overt thought to ponder upon whether the singer-songwriter could soon be indulging in the sights of London from the comfort of a Mustang of her own as she starts to mould a timeless genre to her own irreversible talents.
