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Soul-Pop groove-driven heavy-duty heady & passionate life-riddle music.

10 MP3 Songs
POP: Quirky, URBAN/R&B: R&B Pop Crossover



Details:
Celia''s background of gospel church, teenage years in London''s south-end, Bluegrass in the Midwest and a passage through folk fueled the grooves on her new CD "Break". She''s been compared to Fiona Apple, Rickie Lee Jones and Billie Holiday and her writing has brought to mind for some Jacques Briel and Laura Niro. Her collaboration with other writers and her producer, Robby Baier (https://www.tradebit.com) results in an album with layers of percussive guitar, sampled drums, the rhythms of tongue drum, glockenspiel and Hammond penetrated by Celia''s soulful vocal.

Celia has showcased at NEMO in Boston and the Antifolk Festival in New York, played alongside Melissa Ferrick and Toshi Reagon at W.A.M. Fest, opened for Sally Taylor, and played all the local rooms like Club Passim in Boston, The Sidewalk Café in NYC, Club Helsinki in Great Barrington and The Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton MA. She has performed up and down from Maine to New York. The "Break" tour includes Celia on keys, keys/electric guitar/samplers player Jim Weeks, acoustic guitarist Sue Burkhart, drummer Chris Ryan, and bassist John O''Boyle.

Celia''s singing career started in church in London England where she sang gospel choruses (think Andre Crouch)until college age, at which point she moved to Missouri where she sang Lone Justice and Mary Black songs at Hootenannies with friends on guitar and mandolin. Performances began in Maui where she taught herself guitar, and continued on the East coast where she began composing songs for piano and guitar. After releasing her solo album "While I Lay Watching" in 2000, she began co-writing with songwriter Robby Baier (https://www.tradebit.com), pianist Peter Jones (https://www.tradebit.com), and guitarist Bruce Knowlton. "Break" followed a year later.

Currently Celia is working on her touring schedule and hopes to sell this album farther than the first one went (Sweden, Germany, Albania, Spain etc).

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