Beyonce Partners With Show Your Helping Hand(TM) Campaign to Help Fight Hunger in America
WHO: Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and actress Beyoncé Knowles
Houston community leader, Pastor Rudy of St. John's Downtown Church
C.E.O. / President Houston Food Bank - Brian Greene
U.S. Congresswoman - Sheila Jackson-Lee
WHAT: Exclusive PHOTO OPPORTUNITY with Beyonce, Pastor Rudy, U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee and Brian Greene of Houston Food Bank. Beyonce has partnered with General Mills' Hamburger Helper(R) with the goal of helping Feeding America deliver more than 3.5 million meals to local food banks through the Show Your Helping Hand(TM) campaign. For more information, visit www.showyourhelpinghand.com
Donations of non-perishable food items can be dropped off at the "Beyonce Experience" tent located at Toyota Center, the site of her "I AM..." concert.
WHERE: 1994 Championship Room Toyota Center 1510 Polk Street Houston, TX
WHEN: Saturday, July 4 5:00pm Media Check-In - Administrative entrance (La Branch and Clay) 6:00pm Photo / Media opportunity *(Spanish translator will be available)
RSVP: Yvette Noel-Schure, Columbia Records yvette.noel-schure@sonymusic.com OR 212-833-4483 Contacts: Yvette Noel-Schure, Columbia Records yvette.noel-schure@sonymusic.com
Mark Young, Music World Entertainment 323-656-6401 or myoung@thefactoryinc.com
Pam Becker, General Mills 763-764-2470 or pam.becker@genmills.com
Bernice Neumann, Exponent PR 612 305 6163 or bernice.neumann@exponentpr.com
Ross Fraser, Feeding America 312-641-6422 or rfraser@feedingamerica.org
Betsy Ballard, Houston Food Bank 713 547 8653 or bballard@houstonfoodbank.org
Laura Maag, Toyota Center, Media check-in and escort on site 713-758-7272 lauram@rocketball.com
Solange Knowles the younger sister of Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is now ready to unleash her sultry hot looks and sweet voice on the music world. Are you ready for AKA Sol-AngeL?
Alright baby, I'm feelin' you!
22 Apr 2008 02:05 Africa/Lagos
Solange Knowles AKA SoL-AngeL Set to Release Sophomore Album SoL-AngeL and The Hadley Street Dreams on August 26th
VIDEO FOR FIRST SINGLE, 'I DECIDED,' PRODUCED BY PHARRELL, BEING SHOT - IN LOS ANGELES ON TUESDAY, APRIL 22ND
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 21 /PRNewswire/ --
Talented singer, songwriter, artist, and entrepreneur, Solange Knowles AKA SoL-AngeL, is ready to set the world on fire with a sound that is sure to breathe life into a sometimes stagnant music scene. With her sophomore set, SoL-AngeL and The Hadley Street Dreams, on her new label home of Geffen Records through Music World Entertainment, Solange takes us through a walk in yesteryear with an uber modern twist. SoL-AngeL and The Hadley Street Dreams is due for release on August 26th.
On SoL-AngeL and The Hadley Street Dreams, SoL-AngeL enlisted help from producers and songwriters that she knew would capture the sound she wanted to project instantly; but getting them to believe in her wasn't easy.
"I literally had to beg Cee-Lo to listen to my music but once he did he signed on immediately," states the giddy SoL-AngeL. "We wrote and recorded 'T.O.N.Y' and 'Sandcastle Disco' (produced by Soul Shock) that same week. Producer Jack Splash joined in to produce 'T.O.N.Y' and went on to produce two more songs for me: 'Would've Been the One' and 'Ode To Marvin,' my special take on Mr. Gaye's 'What's going On,' both of which I wrote with Splash and Makeba."
For the remainder of the album SoL-AngeL went on to work with Pharrell for the finger-snapping, feel-good first single "I Decided," Lil Wayne makes an intoxicated guest appearance on "Champagnechronicnightcap," Bilal helps write and appears on "Cosmic Journey" and "Wanna Go Back," which Marsha Ambrosius of Floetry lends vocals to, and Raphael Saddiq produces the soulfully insightful, "Same Song, Different Man," which features Estelle.
"By the end of the project, I had worked with all of the producers and artists I had ever dreamed of including Q-Tip, Boards of Canada and Mark Ronson," states SoL-AngeL. "When I got a call saying the legendary Lamont Dozier would take the time out to write with little old me I was ecstatic beyond words."
The video for "I Decided," directed by the creative Melina, will offer the viewer a glimpse of who Solange, the visionary, really is: It is the ultimate pop art piece. Its psychedelic, it's adventurous, it's colorful and not so colorful, it's intelligent, and it's the inner makings of Solange. "I love pop art; in fact I am a painter myself and have several pieces under my belt that I haven't put on display but soon plan to." The "I Decided" video deals with pop culture from the 60s to the future. It displays SoL-AngeL in settings from American Bandstand, to the Civil Rights Movement, to New Wave, and finally a "Cosmic Journey" future.
SoL-AngeL's love of music started at an early age when she became a classically trained ballerina and a jazz, tap, and modern dancer. She began touring internationally as a dancer for Destiny's Child when she was 13 years old and then she began to mix and match musical styles she experienced in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico and Australia with what she loved from America which was sounds from the 60's and 70's. Her influences from that era range from Shuggie Otis -- who made the original "Strawberry Letter 23," to The Supremes and the Marvelettes, to Dusty Springfield, to Marvin Gaye, and to Minnie Riperton. A wide range of sounds from a young lady that will definitely give you what you least expect.
Source: Interscope Records
CONTACT: Tresa Sanders of Interscope Records, +1-212-841-8272, tresa.sanders@umusic.com; or Chanel Green of Music World Entertainment, +1-310-402-7326, chanel.green@musicworldent.com, for Interscope Records
NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information, press kits, and interviews and to RSVP video shoot coverage on Solange AKA SoL-AngeL please contact IGA: Tresa Sanders @ 212 841 8272 and via email at tresa.sanders@umusic.com or Music World Entertainment: Chanel Green @ 310 402 7326 and via email at chanel.green@musicworldent.com.
From Orikinla Osinachi: Solange has been married and divorced with a son Daniel, and the father of the boy is college-football player Daniel Smith.
Photo Illustration: Clinton and Obama Battle for Votes at BlueBeat.com: Hillary's Choice Cuts and Barack Around The Clock, America Is Listening! (PRNewsFoto/BlueBeat.com) SANTA CRUZ, CA UNITED STATES 01/17/2008
18 Jan 2008 00:13 Africa/Lagos
Clinton and Obama Battle for Votes at BlueBeat.com
America Is Listening!
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ --
Popular online music streaming site http://www.bluebeat.com/ is hosting the race between the Clinton and Obama musical performances, Hillary's Choice Cuts and Barack Around The Clock, in a competition that will continue through the national primaries. As of mid-January, Barack's stream was ranked at #7, just ahead of Hillary's at #9. The ranking of the performances is based on the number of listeners tuning-in to each station.
Hillary's Choice Cuts contains songs that she told the New York Post were some of her favorites, including the Beatles "Hey Jude", Aretha Franklin's "Respect", the Eagles "Take It To The Limit", and U2's "Beautiful Day". "I've got everything -- a total smorgasbord," Senator Clinton said, "I'm a child of the '60s and '70s."
Barack Around The Clock contains music that embodies his cool jazz, Motown roots. "I'm old school, so generally, I'm more of a jazz guy, a Miles Davis, a John Coltrane guy, more of a Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder kind of guy," Obama told New York City radio station Hot 97, "But having said that, I'm current enough that I've got a little bit of Jay-Z, and a little Beyonce."
CEO of BlueBeat.com, Hank Risan, comments: "Of the leading Democratic hopefuls, we can better relate to them not only as politicians, but personally through their expressed musical tastes. Hillary and Barack have chosen songs from artists that helped shape and change American culture. It's good to know that our candidates are still listening."
BlueBeat.com offers listeners the opportunity to create their own music playlists for webcasting, called "Be The DJ." These performances are made available for anyone in the world to enjoy through http://www.bluebeat.com/.
About Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com:
Media Rights Technologies, http://www.mediarightstech.com/, creates and licenses content management and enablement solutions, empowering the effective distribution of digital media. BlueBeat.com is a subsidiary of MRT dedicated to supporting the arts and providing access for users to create and transmit musical performances worldwide.
Media Contacts: Jasleen Matharu, Media Rights Technologies
831.426.4412, jasleen@mediarightstech.com
Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080117/AQTH145 AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org/ AP PhotoExpress Network: PRN9 PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com Source: BlueBeat.com
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Beyonce has recovered from the embarrassment of her falling whilst performing on stage and will launch her new Emporio Armani fragrance, "Diamonds," during her concert Saturday at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Twenty "brand ambassadors" will distribute samples to audience members, reports the New York Post.
