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What do you get when you mash up the majesty of Africa, the island vibes of the Caribbean, New York City's concrete jungle and shake it like a Molotov Cocktail? Welcome to the world of Sheba, a feisty, dynamic singer/rhymer/songwriter/producer ready to explode your ipod with hot beats, clever, provocative lyrics, wicked flow, melodic catchy hooks and a diva-worthy four octave range. In late 2008, Sheba formed an independent label, (S)onic Dynasty around the buzz from what turned out to be her first Single, a song which unexpectedly took off from a youtube post. A year and a half later, that one song has traveled the world.The Ethiopian born Singer arrived to the U.S. in the Eighties, a refugee and descendant of the Solomonic Dynasty, who's family fled the end of Monarchal Ethiopia, living on three continents before finally landing in Queens, New York. In the years following, growing up in exile, she learned to appreciate her rich cultural upbringing through a diversity of music and honed her voice, teaching herself to sing and write songs while her family's travels continued to take her around the globe. It was during a return to New York in 2004, that she teamed up with her mentor Tommy "MadFly" Faragher, a Grammy® and ASCAP Pop Award-winning Songwriter, Producer in Brooklyn and began to record the basis for her first album, "The Lion of Sheba" due later this year.
Fresh off the success of "Love this Lifetime" and the Remix featuring Dancehall legend Bounty Killer, Sheba shows no signs of slowing down armed with new music that promises to win her many more new fans. Her one-drop lovers rock tune garnered chart love in several countries, went to #1 twice and received video play on the likes of international networks like MTV UK and VH1-Soul. The song has seen spins from DJ's worldwide, and now Sheba's gearing up several new releases: "The Lion of Sheba Mixtape" featuring production and remixes from cutting edge producers in the Electro/Dubstep world (Dev79, Starkey) and two fiery new Single about to "take them by storm": Rat-Tat-Tat-Hot, an electrifying up-tempo club track, already receiving incredible reviews from DJ's who expect young fans to swiftly gravitate to the hot beat of the Dancehall/Electro/Pop banger and relate to the clever anti-violence message of the song, a timely social commentary inspired by her time spent living on the island of Jamaica. The Dubplate requests have already begun to pour in.
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