Candace Jones,
GC and Soul Mafia
and Che'Nelle

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Already a hit songwriter in her home country of Australia, where she is set to open for Kanye West's upcoming tour, CHE'NELLE, 22, signed her first recording deal in America with Virgin Records; discovered by club DJ and radio vet Sir Charles Dixon. She completed her Virgin debut album -- almost entirely self-written -- with production help from hit-making A-listers including Rich Harrison (Amerie's "The 1 Thing", Beyonce's "Crazy in Love") and a list of hot up-and-comers from New York, Toronto, London and Australia. A satisfying combination of compulsive, rhythmic music and soul-deep, intimate ballads, her album serves notice that a major new singer-songwriter is on the scene. And it announces unmistakably CHE'NELLE's unforced yet irresistible knack for drawing lines between every form of contemporary rhythm-based music, creating a fresh, essential music for the new urban world of the millennium and beyond uniting both music and listeners.

GC & Soul Mafia - Hailing from Ft. Green, Brooklyn, G.C. and Soul Mafia offer a vision of music looking towards the future, drawing from the past, but firmly entrenched in the present. Their sound reflects influences as varied as Coltrane to Jay-Z, Coldplay to Prince, while ultimately landing within the graffiti tagged walls of hip-hop. The result is a Molotov cocktail of adept wordplay and searing saxophone riffs; hard beats and lush orchestration; technology and soul.