Listen to the single ‘Split Decisions,’ from Toronto R&B artist Kiana. This new single is about making the uncomfortable decision to let go of someone you believe is better off without you because someone else is more gentle with your lover’s heart.
Kiana has been featured Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, Lyrical Lemonade, and Ones to Watch. She has earned over half a million plays globally.
‘ Split Decisions’ comes from an act of selflessness and a desire to put the other person first so that they can find someone who is genuinely capable of loving them.
It’s the guitars and the smooth vocals that make this a summer hit. My brother Anthony Booker and my husband are the guitarists on this song. It was originally made for pop, R&B singer Rihanna with lyrics written by Princess Diana’s Daughter. It’s perfect for vacation in Euroasia and the USA.
Kiana shares, “The verses are almost like flashbacks that reminisce over memories and is vulnerable in the reality that when you let go of someone – you do continue to think about everything that you had, what could’ve been, and you learn to understand yourself and the other person more when the situation is done with.”
About Kiana
Kiana is a Toronto-based R&B artist, known for her moody, soulful and hypnotic soundscapes. Reflecting feelings of heartbreak and melancholy, the songwriter touches on how growth is often painful but beautiful.
With her music always radiating raw emotion and vulnerability, the mysterious track “Split Decisions” is a sexy, feminine.
Her music has gained recognition from multiple radio stations including Toronto’s Flow 93.5 FM and Vibe 105.5 FM and received immense positive reception from her hometown. She has touched major stages like The Mod Club Theatre and performed at significant Canadian festivals including NXNE and Canadian Music Week.
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The new single “Jolene” from the British brother and sister duo, ANGEL X STAR is now available. “Jolene” is a fun take on Dolly Parton’s 1974 hit song. Beginning as an experiment, the duo wanted to create a modern version in the Afro R&B genre.
ANGEL X STAR duo is from Hertfordshire, UK. They create infectious Afro pop music and R&B anthems to the likes of Brandy, Aaliyah, Tems and Rema. Having grown up in a musical family, Angel and Star started singing together at church.
Experiencing loss and navigating grief, the duo expressed their pain through music and continue to honor their younger sister’s legacy.
About Jolene | Afro R&B
Jolene is a heartbreak song inspired by Dolly Parton.
The song “Jolene” combines two different backgrounds of pain, but all rooted in love. With a throbbing, bouncy beat, soulful, layered harmonies and playful synths, the duo put their own stamp and twist on the 70’s anthem.
Beginning as an experiment, the duo wanted to create a modern version in the Afro R&B genre.
ANGEL X STAR have performed to sold-out audiences, shout outs from DJ Target, and received airplay on BBC `1xtra radio station. 2023 is set to be a big year for the duo, as they enter into a new chapter with their fresh sound.
It’s 2023. Gina Naomi Baez, a singer/songwriter and actress from New York City, has a new single out “When You Hear Joni.” This song is about heartbreak after going through an emotional situation in your life.
About ‘When You Hear Joni’ by Gina Naomi Baez
Gina Naomi Baez latest single “When You Hear Joni” is inspired by the idea of how a song you once loved can be ruined because it reminds you of a certain heartbreak, or emotional situation in your life.
About Gina Naomi Baez
In addition to her singing/songwriting career, Gina Naomi Baez has a flourishing acting career having landed roles in Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It, Orange is the New Black and most recently CBS’s FBI.
Her love and passion for songwriting and music has always been the true driving force behind her creativity, with Bez using her platform to spread messages of positivity.
Baez shares, “I worked with two amazing female songwriters/producers on this song and concept, Meghan Kabir and I really dove into the idea of Joni Mitchell’s River as the song that sparks a heartbreaking memory. We then worked with HARLOE ie: Jessica Karpov on production and making the song sound like a winter song, with a melancholic nature like the snow was falling down slowly throughout the entire song.”
Fromgirltogirl music review of ‘When You Hear Joni,’
The somber song,’When You Hear Joni,’ shimmers with delicate melodies and glowing harmonies. It’s a song you can play in the office, when you study, or anytime of day you think over an emotional situation or reflect on heartbreak after a relationship ends. Here at Fromgirltogirl.com we also lover the ‘When You Hear Joni’ single cover art. It is perfect for the winter season.
She has also performed in numerous Off-Broadway and Regional theatrical productions. Baez has also seen great success with her YouTube channel which has built an impressive following. Her infamous “Lizzo’s Truth Hurts x Hocus Pocus” parody music video went viral after LIZZO herself reposted it, as well as Bette Midler. The channel features creative, unique original music videos, covers and parodies of popular songs and has garnered worldwide recognition from the likes of PEOPLE, Entertainment Weekly, Access Hollywood, The Huffington Post, MTV, Perez Hilton, FOX, E! ONLINE, Ryan Seacrest, Yahoo News!, Stylist and much more!
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Northern Californian musician Mr. Grossman (Mark S Grossman) has announced the release of his new EP/mini-album entitled “Novella,” containing four new original tracks with a wide-ranging experimental approach. The collection also showcases the artist’s more vulnerable side, as he lyrically turns inward and channels his inner storyteller. “Novella” is best described as“stories about people dealing with the past love, needing courage, comfort, and closure.”
The eclectic Mr. Grossman turns from the political theme of his first two tracks to the personal. These four songs are about people dealing with love, past and future, looking for courage, comfort and closure. On the opening track Chana Matthews gives voice to a searing portrait of a woman burned by past relationships, daring herself to get back into the game. The second track, Escape, is like an offer of encouragement and solace to the first. The music is a mix of modern R&B and pop, with echoes of Sade, Smokey Robinson and John Legend. There are also classical Easter eggs (Duruflé and Brahms) for good measure.
Artist Name: Mr. Grossman Location: Northern California Release Title: Novella (mini-album) Musician Names/Instruments: Mark S Grossman/keyboards,guitars,vocals; Chana Matthews/vocals Genre(s): R&B/Soul, Indy Pop
Northern California-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer Mr. Grossman (Mark S Grossman) has straddled the technology and music world for years.
Fromgirltogirl.com Music Review
After listening to Novella, Fromgirltogirl highly recommends it for music instrumentalist, technology, and music.
Any Takers – This song has a very Sade sound and vibe for fans out there.
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Escape – It’s a peaceful Melody about overcoming troubles for a fresh start. But in order to do so, you have to escape your circumstance.
Los Angeles-based Singer Songwriter Zach Churchill bares his soul without reservation on his confessional, potent new album “Greater Than.” It includes the lead single “Surrender.”
It’s an appropriate precursor to this bold album, exploring difficult feelings and painful trauma with a brave curious spirit. The single deals with addiction and hopelessness, yet there is healing and hope in its underlying music and message. Whether welcoming or foreboding, truth is Zach’s artistic and life mantra.
Zach Churchill’s Greater Than album makes for genuine storytelling.
Churchill elaborates on the album-writing process, explaining how it was therapeutic and encouraged him to trust his inner compass:
“Greater Than,”was written and recorded in Sherman Oaks, CA with my producer and friend, Tom Rasulo. Amidst a bunch of changes and trials in my personal life, the studio was a refuge and safe place for me to process all that was happening. I was able to explore difficult feelings, reflect on my current circumstances, and digest painful experiences. Basically, this album was incredibly therapeutic. It represents an incredibly important period in my life when I finally began to trust myself.
The title track, “Greater Than”, is about making other people your Higher Power and then being disappointed when they let you down, and finally coming to terms with the painful truth that no human being will ever be able to save or fix you.
“Surrender” is about addiction being the result of untreated trauma. “Each day is the same, I wake up in pain, and repeat what I fear with no resolution.”
“The past, it is real, and it’s living inside you. This pain, it can heal, you can change if you want to…”
Fromgirltogirl.com review of ‘Greater Than’ Album
The ‘Greater Than’ album is a splendor of emotions from track to track. We enjoy the story of overcoming struggle. Even if some of the lyrics can have us in our feelings, Zach Churchill keeps the instrumentals on the album upbeat or at a tempo that can be heard when you are having a good or bad day. It’s an easy 50 minute listen.
He pulls no punches: His lead single “Bartender” chronicles a harrowing heroin overdose. “The person I’m singing to saved my life,” Zach explains. “He was closing up at 2:00 a.m. at the venue when I overdosed. Everyone was gone, but he checked the bathroom because the light was on. The door was locked, so he got the key and found me. If he had just gone home I’d be dead.”
In the hospital, after a medically induced coma, Zach was forced to face his family and himself.
“You hit your bottom when you stop digging,” Churchill says.
The song is all about him saying ‘I’m done.’
Heartbreak and Hope was recorded with noted producer, artist, and multi-instrumentalist Julian Coryell who invited key musicians to power the tracks.
About Zach Churchill
On a recent journey Zach traveled The Camino de Santiago, an ancient European pilgrim route leading to the tomb of St. James in northwest Spain, a sacred path with a profound history. “I was surrounded by people who were on the pilgrimage for spiritual reasons, this great family,” he recalls. “With the right attitude, every day of my life can be an adventure like The Camino.”
11 songs serve as musical mile markers commemorating a 10 year journey through Zach Churchill twenties — a decade that he barely survived.
1. Surrender, 2. Greater Than, 3. Living in L.A., 4. Reach You, 5. Love & Terror, 6. I Can’t Stand Myself, 7. Hover, 8. Sonoyta, 9. How To Live, 10. Then We Can Think About Dying
With an expressively vulnerable voice, singer-songwriter Zach Churchill breathes life, love, and gratitude into absorbing narratives. Sophisticated arrangements, inventive modulations, and superlative musicality are hallmarks of the Orange County, California native’s debut collection, Heartbreak & Hope.
Genre(s): Alternative Rock, Singer Songwriter, Rock, Folk Rock, Americana, Alternative
New York City (NYC) Multi-Instrumentalist Musician, Dance, Choreographer, Filmmaker and Untethered Mystic Andrea Ward occupies a realm all her own.
Ward merges music and movement in her wholly atypical new single “Awake at Night,” released November 18 , 2022 on streaming platforms.
Following previous singles “Game” and “Algorithm”, this is the third taste of her label-defying album “Ribbon of Water”, set to release January 20, 2023.
Undisturbed by current trends, Andrea Ward‘s uniquely inspired musical alchemy melds a harmonious collection of subgenres, drawing inspiration from Icelandic Pop, Norwegian Rock, Experimental, Alternative Pop, Permanent Wave and Avant-Garde sounds.
Andrea Ward shares ““Awake at Night” is the idea that you’re awake at night because you know something’s wrong in life. You know that there are forces in the world trying to keep you asleep, and you refuse to be any less alive than your greatest potential. It’s as if the song is a roaring voice from your deep subconscious, telling you to get up and move.”
By combining musicality with her immense knowledge of movement and a direct, intimate relationship with the subconscious mind,Andrea Ward speaks her truth from a wellspring of great depth and limitless creative energy.
Fromgirltogirl.com Music Review
We love Andrea Ward’s new single ‘Awake at Night,’ because it is perfectly mellow for a rainy day inside or book read. It could even be an intro or outro of a movie or Television show. The song is a good balance of relaxation and emotional energy. Listen while you take a shower or bath, we promise you won’t regret it. It’s also perfect for a dinner date night listen for singles and couples.
Album: “Ribbon of Water” Tracklist for 1/20/23 launch:
Andrea Ward is an NYC musician and choreographer merging music and dance into one movement. “My music sounds the way that my dance looks, both fluid and sharp, as if a force of nature was trying to nurture you and sting you at the same time, just enough to force you to move.” Andrea relates to percussive instruments, and works closely with a drummer to create fine detail, and then builds dance works to it for her own music videos.
More Info: Musician Names/Instruments: Music by Andrea Ward & Percussion by PJ Donahue Similar/RIYL: Björk, Aurora, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Glass Animals, Soap&Skin, Hiatus Kaiyote, Sona Jobarteh, Arooj Aftab, Rising Appalachia, Ani DiFranco Genres: Experimental Pop, Alternative Pop, Permanent Wave, Vocal Music, Avant-Garde, Ethereal, Icelandic Pop, Norwegian Rock, Majestic
Kaleigh, a multi-talented musician, actress, and model returns with hard rocking new single and music video “Situationship,” out November 4th on streaming platforms. As Kaleigh‘s music has evolved over the years, she has embraced a heavy alternative, punk-infused sound while simultaneously opening up with raw, emotionally charged lyricism.
Kaleigh opens up on the themes of her new single.
“Have you ever been in less than a relationship, but more than a friendship with someone? Well, me too. Situationship is about being frustrated as you are stuck in the in-between with someone you’vecome to care about. “
Kaleigh explains, too often people are quick to trade a good thing for a good time. While others are damaged by traumatic experiences that keep them from moving forward and falling in love.
The song Situationship is a therapeutic, anger-release to help listeners let go of pent up emotion that otherwise would scare off love.
The negative effects of casual dating and the widely accepted ‘situationship’ are felt equally by the Millennial, Zillennial, and Gen Z populations.
The song Situationship highlights one’s ability to reclaim power and decide if a lifestyle type is the right fit.
The rock genre has always been about stepping outside of societal expectations and generational norms. Situationship is about doing the unexpected in an era of instant gratification and emotional unavailability — reverting to the old-fashioned, slow-burn kind of love.
Fromgirltogirl.com Music Review
We love Kaleigh’s youthful vocals and the heavy metal opening works great for Situationship. The song is relatable and the music video is a must watch because it demonstrates the missing in-action partner that is the default of situationship(s). We also like Kaleigh’s fashion.
Kaleigh is a multifaceted artist who has been steadily building her entertainment career since she was 13 years old. At 13, she wrote and independently released an EP and followed it up with strong singles over the years. She has written, executive produced and starred in four music videos for her singles, “Fading,” “Twisted//Mistake,” “Lost Souls,” and most recently, “Situationship.”
In March of 2021, she released her debut album “Predestined,” which was highly regarded by many music critics both newly introduced to her career and those who had been following since the start. Her most recent release “Situationship” is a deep dive into the rock sound she has always been meant to play.
In addition to her work as a musical artist, she is an actress. Currently signed with Lena Roklin of Luber Roklin Entertainment as well as David Arrigotti and Daniel Hoff of Daniel Hoff Agency, her most recent notable credits are Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” and CBS All Access’s hit tv show, “Why Women Kill.” You may also recognize her from her features on NBC’s “The Good Place” or ABC’s “Speechless.”
She is a graduate from the University of California Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s degree in English, Cum Laude Latin Honors, and College Honors. She grew up attending prestigious academic summer programs at UCSC, Haverford College, and Yale University as well as obtained her AA degree in Liberal Arts from Santa Monica College with honors in just one year. In the summer of 2019, she completed a writing internship at CBS Studios and attended the Rocaberti Writer’s Retreat at Miles Copeland’s 14th century castle in Southwestern France.
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Check out this fun new music from Flo Gallop to get you through the summer. Her freshly released single “21” is a head-bopping tune narrating the familiar day-to-day life of a 21 year old.
Flo Gallop has garnered acclaim from the likes of Live Nation’s Ones To Watch and Earmilk.
South-east London born and bred, Flo was raised around music. She sits, scribbling words about her daily life through the musicality and soul of a natural artist that would eventually emerge, fully formed, as a friend in our ears. We love her latest single because it is about living for the moment. “21” shimmers with bold, confident instrumentation and honest, sassy, storytelling lyrics. Her music is reminiscent of the likes of Kate Nash and Lily Allen, oozing an early 2000’s feel, while delivering a fresh pizzazz. Wearing her heart on her sleeve, the song is an account of her mistakes in youth but not regretting her life experiences. With her strong identity, “21” features infectious melodies and a fat, head-bopping bassline which dominates the chorus.
The music video for “21” features Flo working long shifts, saving up money to blow it on a night out at a karaoke bar. Bright colours, flamboyant outfits and vibrant shots of London town emit feel-good vibes, getting you in the mood to party.
Musical artist PinkFiz has a new album entitled The World Of Pinkfiz, featuring four pop-punk tracks filled with her emotions and life experiences. Music lovers who enjoy the electric, powerful punk infusion can really appreciate this album.
About PinkFiz
PinkFiz is an 18 year old punk pop artist from Cambridgeshire. Having previously performed as part of other bands, she started her solo project during the coronavirus pandemic as a way to continue writing and creating while stuck in isolation. PinkFiz represents female empowerment and the songwriters pride in being an independent female artist and producer.
The musician explains, “The World Of PinkFiz is an insight into my life and I want the listener to feel like they’re stepping into my shoes for 11 minutes.” Produced, recorded and written all by the PinkFiz, the EP is a passion project and an outlet to release her inner-frustrations and feelings. She confides, “I wrote the songs about different eras of my life so far and it’s based on a lot of bottled up anger. I felt this was the right way to release that emotion and honestly the easiest way for me to talk about things that have bothered me for a long time.”
With the hopes to make listeners feel invincible and capable of anything, The World Of Pinkfiz will have listeners feeling like they are stomping on top of the world. Listen now to The World of PinkFiz on Spotify.
