Raul Midón with special guest Anthony Mills

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The buzz is growing into a roar for Raúl Midón, who straddles pop, soul & jazz, with a hair-raising voice and dazzling guitar technique. This blind singer songwriter was signed to Manhattan Records/EMI in 2004. He then toured the U.S. and Canada with Jason Mraz, accompanied Queen Latifah on the Today Show, and wrote & performed a song in Spike Lee's latest joint. Midón spent the last few months in the studio with producers Arif Mardin and Joe Mardin working on his debut release due out in 2005. His album features all original material and includes guest performances from the legendary Stevie Wonder and pop troubadour Jason Mraz. "The singer's raw, immaculate vocal expressions are unforgettable." (Washington Post) www.midon.com

The extraordinary vocalist Anthony Mills sings songs from his latest, unclassifiable GhettoTrance CD Cry: No More Slavery in the Kingumb, joined by acclaimed piano wizard, Jason Moran, with whom he has recorded the live album An Evening of Spirituals. Trained in opera, highly influenced by spirituals, classical, hip-hop, soul, reggae, jazz, ambient, trance, house and world music, vocalist Anthony Mills has toured the world with Harry Belafonte's All-Star Band and performed with some of opera's greatest voices at venues like Carnegie Hall, earning praise from the New York Times for his "fresh and confident" vocal skills, while also recording with such underground soul, hip-hop and reggae artists as Sizzla, KRS-One, Dead Prez, Leela James and Maxi Prest. Mills has an unfaltering committment to live instrumentation and concept of social consciousness to create a massive sound that is exhilarating, inspiring his audiences to transcend into the upper echelons of their mind and experience. "Mills...brings a musicality and socially responsible dimension (to music)." - Harry Belafonte www.akeholm.com