Anna Dewar is a 25 year old singer songwriter who writes soulful lyrical and melodic tunes about love, quarter life crises, important events, information overload, and the strange places she's been. Anna trained classically as a piano player before she picked up a guitar at the age of 13 and began writing songs. Since then she has developed a... [+] Read More

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Jill Scott grew up in north Philadelphia and began her performing career reading her own poetry. She was heard by Amir, drummer in the Roots, who invited her to join the band in the studio, resulting in the co-composition "You Got Me," a Top 40 pop hit in 1999. Subsequently, she collaborated with Eric Benet, Will Smith, and Common and broadened... [+] Read More

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Growing up between Washington, D.C., and a farm in Georgia, Alice Smith spent much of her time listening to and singing many different genres of music, but it wasn't until her college years that she began to actually consider the possibility that her voice could be her career. Singing backup for a band at Fordham University, Smith was in the... [+] Read More

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R&B sensation Craig David was barely out of his teens when he took a hold of the U.K. pop circuit, twisted it around, and threw it back on its bum during fall 2000. This fresh-faced native of Southampton, England, was merely playing into his love of funkadelic hip-hop and crooning urban stylings when he started writing songs as a teenager. His... [+] Read More

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She grew up listening to '70s soul and '80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm. The grooves and production on the album are bass-heavy R&B, but Badu's langurous, occasionally tortured vocals and delicate phrasing immediately removed her from... [+] Read More

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Hey, I'm Josephine Grace. I'm a 23 year old singer/songwriter/musician/producer & currently live in Liverpool with my new hubby David. Last year I won a local 'battle of the bands' competition run by Streetwaves. Since then I made to the regional semi-final of the national competition Live & Unsigned, that turned out to be a dead end for me, but... [+] Read More

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Macy Gray parlayed an utterly unique voice and an outlandish sense of style into R&B stardom at the turn of the millennium, appealing to audiences of all colors in search of a fresh alternative to mainstream soul. Gray was actually born Natalie McIntyre in Canton, OH, in 1970, and grew up a shy, awkward youngster who was frequently teased about... [+] Read More

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With the release of her debut CD, Moments of Clarity, Book 1 (2005) Wayna solidified herself as an emerging singer/songwriter and a compelling and vivid storyteller. Since then, the Ethiopian native, whose musical style can be found between Minnie Riperton, Lauryn Hill, and Simon and Garfunkel has used her soulful voice and dynamic stage show to... [+] Read More

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