Publishing: Sam Tate
Publishing Affiliation: ASCAP
Publishing 2: Dave Berg
Publishing Affiliation 2: BMI
Album Title: That’s How Loving You Is
Record Label: Kick’n Dirt Entertainment
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The undeniable Southern sound of Donnie Lee Strickland was born in eastern North Carolina. Donnie was influenced by the music of George Strait, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Randy Travis, The Judds, and Reba McEntire, which inspired him to sing in church and perform in school plays and local festivals.
Donnie has entertained crowds all over the United States with his rich baritone vocals, performing as a special guest on the Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree in Nashville, TN, along with Grand Ole Opry stars Jan Howard and Jean Shepard. He has also performed at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in historic Hurricane Mills, TN. Donnie was a featured performer at country artist Tanya Tuckers VIP Birthday Bash in Russellville, AR.
He has opened for artists Ty Herndon, Anita Cochran, Jeff Bates, Frankie Ballard, Brothers Osborne, Sunny Sweeney, Lu Lu Roman, and several others. Donnie has been showcased as a special guest: on The Music City Hayride Show at the Texas Troubadour Theater in Nashville, TN, on the weekly TV/radio show Branson Country USA at the Grand Country Music Hall in Branson, MO, and on the TV show Ben Stillwaters Country Junction at Bransons Center Stage in Branson, MO. He was a cast member of the American Music Jubilee show at the Rudy Theater in Selma, NC, and was a semi finalist for the Jimmy Dean True Value Country Showdown, the WSM Road Show, and the Southern Pepsi Challenge.
Donnie was a nominee for the Fan Choice award at the 2018 ICMA Awards, and was awarded the 2017 WOBA Song of the Year for “She’s My Kind of Woman”, the 2017 Josie Music Award for Modern Country Male Artist of the Year, the 2018 Josie Music Award for Modern Country Male Entertainer of the Year, and the 2019 Josie Music Award for Modern Country Male Vocalist of the Year.
He is a current ambassador for Guitars For Vets, and participates in the annual Christmas 4 Kids Bus Tour in Hendersonville, TN.
Publishing: James Fairchild
Publishing Affiliation: BMI
Album Title: Replay
Record Label: Coast
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Alex VanTrue is a professional singer, musician and producer, currently living in Portugal. He’s the leader of one of Europe’s top tribute bands: One Vision – Queen Tribute and a successful session singer on internet’s top musician provider sites, lending his voice for countless projects around the world. Alex began his passion for music listening to Queen in 1991. It changed his life. forever
Publishing: Akillz Publishing
Publishing Affiliation: ASCAP
Album Title: Faded In July
Record Label: 5ive7even
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Individually they are Phi and Meisha, Columbus Ohio natives and best friends. But together they are known as PM, the first letter of their names combined together; an inseparable force not to be reckoned with. Music has always been an interest for PM but with Phi residing in Los Angeles and Meisha in Jersey it was hard for them to produce their music together efficiently at times. Theyve faced many challenges through this journey but they never gave up. The friendship, love and drive that they have kept each other going, finding any way possible to make music and flourish in the industry. Youve probably first heard of them with their debut single Get It, a summer anthem and club banger. Soon after they continued with their bossy delivery and clever bars; dropping their next single Touch It along with a bad ass video shot in their hometown Columbus. PM has been working hard and dropping music non stop including their latest single Faded In July. Expanding their sound, they went from dropping bars to hitting the summer with a melodic sound creating a different tempo for everyone to vibe to. PMs goal is to provide a sound that will curate a language that will radiate universally and to put more boss women on the map in the industry. Keep an eye out for them, theyre not just rising artists; they are THRIVING female artists.
Publishing: Shaw Christos Skyler
Publishing Affiliation: SOCAN
Publishing 2: Hurstfield Adam
Publishing Affiliation 2: SOCAN
Album Title: Boomerang
Record Label: Appreciated Music
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Christos Shaw is a pop artist with an edge. Growing up in the entertainment industry, Christos loved performing, and started acting and singing from a very young age. Being the astounding performer, it didn’t take Christos long to start booking roles in television movies. After working in the film industry for a decade, Christos’s life-long love for R&B and pop music pushed him to pursue the career in music he had always dreamt of. In 2018, he began co-writing his debut EP.
In April of 2020, the independent record label, “Appreciated Music” promptly signed Christos. Now, with ever growing confidence and skill, Christos readies himself to take over both US airwaves and streaming services around the globe with the release of his first single off his upcoming EP, “Boomerang.”
Boomerang was produced and recorded by Darren Grahn, who has worked with such artists as Metallica, Motley Crue, Veruca Salt, and Bon Jovi. He has also worked as an engineer with famed producer Bob Rock.
Publishing: Jesse Pepe
Publishing Affiliation: BMI
Publishing 2: Thomas Lumpkins
Publishing Affiliation 2: ASCAP
Album Title: Little Man
Record Label: Appreciated Music
Bio/Tour:
After performing musical theatre in his hometown of Salt Lake City, Jesse moved to Los Angeles where he found a fun and bizarre lane in comedy music. Over the years, writing music became a tool of self-discovery and deep healing, which itself influenced a new artistic direction: Music which shares a message of love and compassion, in the hopes that he can help inspire healing in others.
Publishing: Damon
Publishing Affiliation: ASCAP
Album Title: Hustle With A Purpose
Record Label: DQF Productions
Bio/Tour:
Damon is a new artist. This is his first time producing his own music. Damon has always had a passion for music. Being busy in his career as a healthcare professional, time was not available to develop the skill. The pandemic gave a fire to follow the dream. Damon wanted to send a positive message during a time of negativity. He wanted to give people a reason to smile and dance. Hustle with a Purpose has captured that. To encourage creativity, Damon started a contest to have 2020 graduates send in videos for a chance at a scholarship. Damon was able to get a big names that inspired the song to help promote the cause. Damon will use all proceeds of the song to fund scholarships.
Publishing: VWG Publishing
Publishing Affiliation: ASCAP
Album Title: Roses In December
Record Label: LP Music
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My Mother was a singer and a songwriter who was making it pretty big, big enough to be on television, in Nashville. My dad, in the service at the time, saw her on TV and knew she was the woman he was going to marry. He found her performing in Nashville and convinced his friends to stage a fight so he could save the girl of his dreams. He did save her, and then he married her. The soldier moved the singer/songwriter to Washington State, and gone was her music career, yet she never stopped writing.
So often, we find ourselves intertwined with dreams that came long before we did. We become keepers of the flame; the fortunate ones who find the passion to keep a legacy alive. For singer/songwriter Lena Paige, what began as a desire to record her mothers songs and hear them on the radio has blossomed into the start of a successful career in country music.
Born in Renton Washington, Lena Paige grew up like any other kid. Her father worked, her mother ran the house, and she had her own activities to stay busy. A cowgirl through and through with a deep love for her horses, music was not at the top of Paiges list of potential careers when she was young. Though Paige did love to sing, she did not take an active interest in writing until she was fifteen and she collaborated on a song with her mom, titled Roses in December. It was then that Paige began to understand the importance of the songs she grew up with. They werent simply her mother scratching a creative itch; they were her family legacy, her mothers heart, and words she could keep with her forever.
Paige always kept music in her life as a hobby, but passionately pursued her work with horses as her first career. After the suicide of her first husband, Paige found herself working at a horse facility in Woodinville, Washington which led to a major turning point in her life. Devastated, Paige turned away from everything she found familiar, relocated herself to Detroit and took up a new job as a flight attendant. It was while she was based in Detroit that Paige would begin her music career with a bang. After singing casually for local gigs with Ty Stone and the Inside Outlaws, Paige decided to relocate to Nashville. After relocating, Paige was asked to sing backup vocals for Stone, produced by Kid Rock. The experience with Kid Rock inspired Paige to begin work on her own career in music. Although she developed very close friendships and was on the right track in music in Nashville, a divorce from her second husband would cause Paige to relocate from Nashville back to Washington, where she could surround herself with the comforts of home and the support of her family.
Back in Nashville with nearly two decades of life experience, tragedy, loss, and her mothers old legal pads full of thousands of songs, Paige is going for round two with Music City. With Kent Wells and Larry Beaird producing her songs, she is making good on her dreams of producing her mothers music for radio and distribution with an upcoming collection of modern traditional country songs. It is right here, right now, where every seemingly separate path in Paiges life suddenly make sense together. The cowgirl tethered to the land, the weary traveler in search of home, the nostalgic country singer; Lena Paige has rediscovered her roots in the powerful words of her mother and a deep joy in bringing them to life with her own voice. As she walks hand in hand with her mother for the rest of her days, their voices will walk hand in hand forever in music.
Publishing: Black Pontiac Music
Publishing Affiliation: SOCAN
Album Title: Pony Boy
Record Label: Appreciated Music
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Formed in Vancouver in 2018, Black Pontiac has just released their first EP PONYBOY, supporting their first charting single in both the USA and Canada NOVEMBER STATE OF MIND. The EP was co-produced and engineered by Darren Grahn, who has worked with artists Metallica, Motley Crue, Veruca Salt and Bon Jovi and worked as an engineer with famed producer Bob Rock.
The not-so-long unknown band recently signed with the Vancouver independent label Appreciated Music. They soon after found local popularity, and now with their first single out, they are accumulating many fans all over North America.
With NOVEMBER STATE OF MIND fast becoming a hit based on radio airplay, the band is now releasing their sophomore single: Kate Rambo. All the members of Black Pontiac collaborate on the songs. When asked about their music, they say theyre a rock, punk and funk band. If you asked for a band theyre inspired by, you would probably hear them say something along the lines of: Like the Red Hot Chili Pepperswith a modern, rap, funk, youthful twist. But they very much have their own sound.
Band Members
Matt Purkiss (lead)
Mack Riddell (guitar)
Avery John Shoesmith (bassist)
Sam Riddell (drummer)
Publishing: Nate Jones
Publishing Affiliation: BMI
Publishing 2: Lance Chandler
Publishing Affiliation 2: BMI
Album Title: Beautiful
Record Label: Dillinger
Bio/Tour:
James Nathan Nate Jones was born on January 8, 1991, and grew up in the small town of Manchester, Tennessee. At an early age, Nate found a gift in athletics, and participated in multiple sports most of his life. It was through sports that he discovered his passion for music. While traveling for basketball, Nate and his teammates would sit at the back of the bus and freestyle battle. It was then that Nate realized he had a gift for poetry.
As time went on, Nate graduated high-school and began his adult life. One fateful day, his car radio went out. To pass the time and drown out the silence, Nate began to freestyle spoken word poetry once more. From that moment on, his natural talent grew into a complete passion for music.
Soon after, his friend Brain Hester turned one of Nates spoken word poems into a song. Brian Hester and the Borrowed Band went on to play the song at multiple gigs with much success. When Nate heard his words being performed in front of an audience, he quickly realized he had to grow his talent.
The people in that band gave me an introduction to the music side of life, Nate commented. And I will be forever grateful.
In 2019, the stars aligned when Nate was given the opportunity to produce his music for the first time. Lifelong friend, Levi Haag, pushed Nate to record in the studio. Haag organized a meeting with producer, Lance Chandler, and one song was all it took. Nate became hooked, and officially began the pursuit of a career in professional rapping.
Im learning, Im evolving, and everyday lm getting better, Nate states. I hope you enjoy my music.
On May 29, 2020, Nate released his debut track, Waking Up.
Publishing: Royal Pacific Global Publishing
Publishing Affiliation: ASCAP
Album Title: Diamonds In The Rough
Record Label: Royal Pacific Global Media
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Recording artist Denise Fuleihan Launches her new album ‘Diamonds in the Rough’ featuring Jon Cain from Journey and collaborations with multiple artists and her new single this June 2020 on a song called “Times Up” feat. Uk rap artist Wizzy Boi.
Her new album is in the Pop and R&B genres with a ’90s flare but with a current sound. It launched Dec. 14, 2018, on Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music on Demand, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube Music, I-Tunes, I Heart Radio, Apple Music, Target Music and 150 digital music sites. Hard copy CDs will also be available on Amazon and Denise’s website at www.Denisefuleihan.com. Denise’s singles from her album can also be heard soon on Sirius XM Radio and others.
Denise’s background as an artist: Denise started her career at a very young age of 15 years old in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, performing in multiple venues and recording studios. She was recruited to audition for “Star Search” at 13. At 17 years old, she started working with Ike and Tina Turner and their sons, touring globally on the road as an Ikette with Ike Turner Jr. and Ronnie Turner, along with multiple great musicians on a world tour. Denise and Ike Jr.’s band opened for the late BB King in Rochester, New York, and went on to Mexico City to open for Chaka Khan. Denise moved to Las Vegas and worked alongside Quincy Jones, Altovise Davis (Sammy Davis Jr.’s wife), Tom Jones, Dionne Warwick and multiple legendary music and acting celebrities on an HBO TV special for a tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. Denise was chosen to appear on X-Factor USA in 2012 with Simon Cowell, Brittany Spears, Demi Lovato and LA Reid.
In addition to singing, songwriting and producing music: Denise is also a TV writer and producer for television content. She has worked with many major music celebrities including Marie Osmond on her syndicated talk show efforts in 2010. Denise is currently working with Jonathan Cain (Journey), Vince Neil (Motley Crue) and additional legendary contributors to the show. These include famous songwriters such as Siedah Garrett (Michael Jackson and Madonna’s lead backup singer and songwriter for multiple great hits like “Man in the Mirror” for Michael Jackson and Jennifer Hudson’s “Love You I Do” from the Dream Girls soundtrack). This is for Denise’s new TV series revolving around songwriters ripe for prime time and digital format. Denise is also working on another TV series with multiple legendary backup singers for Pink, Lady Gaga, Tina Turner, The Eagles, Phil Collins, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Chaka Kahn, Madonna, Elton John and many more, revolving around backup singers’ lives and the struggles they go through trying to rise to the forefront.
