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In the summer of 2003, aged just 18 and still studying at the Brit School of Performing Arts in leafy Surrey, no-one, least of all Katie, would have predicted what the next few years would hold for the teenager.
Mike Batt of ‘The Wombles’ having visited the Performing Arts school looking for new fame discovered Katie and immediately signed her up to his Dramatico label. Four years later, Katie has sold more than 7.5 million albums becoming, in 2006, the year’s best selling British female in the world along the way.
Edmonton's Artists
Since graduating from Grant MacEwan's Music Program, Andrew Glover has been accredited with an inexhaustible body of musical work that extends far beyond his home town of Edmonton. This talented pianist and prolific composer is recognized for his original arrangements and compositions as far as Europe and the U.S. The demand for his musical ability as both a composer and instrumentalist has contributed to his impressive resume that includes such names as Edmonton's own Alfie Zappacosta and Shelley Jones.
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Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records in 1959, 18 years before Canada’s Jully Black was born. But you’d never know it, from listening to this CD, which is her latest.
Black has produced one of the grooviest, retro-Soul records I’ve heard in a long, long time. Think a combination of Atlantic Pop and R&B, delicately wrapped in a 2007’s street-friendly Urban package. It’s grittier than Alicia Keyes, and more of a direct descendant of Motown that Amy Winehouse.
