Chance The Rapper, is an American hip hop recording artist from Chicago, Illinois. Chance (Chancelor Bennett) grew up a fan of soul and jazz music but later became a fan of hip-hop music after purchasing and listening to Kanye West’s 2004 debut album ‘The College Dropout’. His first mixtape, ’10 day’ has been downloaded over 100 000 times since its release. The mix tape got the attention of columnists at Forbes magazine, which featured it in the publication’s Cheap Tunes column. Soon afterwards, rapper Childish Gambino asked Bennett to be the opening act on his 2012 tour. Bennett helped to round-out his skills by doing open-mic and poetry nights. As a teenager, he frequented YOUmedia, a youth center in Chicago’s downtown Harold Washington Library where he was able to work on his public speaking and get better at telling stories to a larger audience. Bennett released his second mixtape, ‘Acid Rap’ ,on April 30, 2013. It was also nominated for ‘Best Mix tape’ at the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards. In August 2013, Bennett performed at the Chicago music festival ‘Lollapalooza’.You can listen to a sample of Chance the Rapper’s track ‘Favorite Song’ in the media player below.

Thanks to http://www.spin.com/ for some biographical information.

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Wow! Our 50th Artist Spotlight feature already! Betty Who is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Her musical style is a mixture of 80s retro-pop music that is all about having fun and going out to dance and party. Her musical influences include many pop stars from the 80s as well as current pop stars such as Katy Perry and Britney Spears. She’s a big fan of live concert events and one of her favorite events is a Britney Spears concert in Las Vegas that she was able to attend. She grew up in Australia but moved to the USA when she was 16 years old to attend Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan. Betty Who’s debut EP ‘The Movement’ was released on April 16, 2013.Betty Who’s debut single, ‘Somebody Loves You,’ was initially released independently as a free download. A viral video of a man proposing to his boyfriend Dustin in a flash mob dance routine at a Salt Lake City, Utah Home Depot included Betty Who’s single in the background and helped her song gain international attention. In 2013, Betty Who signed with RCA Records to record and release her official debut album.

You can listen to a tiny bit of her single ‘Somebody Loves You’ in the media player below.

Thanks to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ for some biographical information.

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Kristinia Debarge is an American R & B singer. She is a third generation singer of the DeBarge family who have a long history of musicians in the family. In 2003, she competed on ‘American Juniors’ which was a spin-off of the hit television program ‘American Idol’. She managed to make it to the semi-finals but did not manage to qualify in the final round of ten contestants. She had worked with Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds on her music career until her 19th birthday when she signed with Sodapop Records which was a brand new sub-division of Island Def Jam Records. DeBarge’s debut single ‘Goodbye’ reached #15 on the Billboard Top 100 while her second single ‘Sabotage’ will be released shortly. In order to promote the album, Kristinia will be the opening act on the upcoming Britney Spears tour called ‘The Circus – Starring Britney Spears’. Her debut album, Exposed, is in stores now.

You can listen to a sample of her song ‘Goodbye’ below in the media player.

Thanks to http://www.wikipedia.org for some biographical information.

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Jillian Banks (Banks) is a Los Angeles born and based singer-songwriter and musician. Working principally with British producers (Lil Silva, Jamie Woon, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs), Banks has released a series of enchanting, sultry pop songs that tug incessantly at the heartstrings. She is quickly beginning to receive more attention to her work as her song ‘Before I Ever Met You’ has garnered 218,000 plays on Soundcloud after being released and the video ‘Warm Water’ has scooped up 189,000 YouTube views in less than a month. Banks released her first EP entitled ‘Fall Over’ on the Iamsound Records/Good Years Recordings labels. In 2013, Banks released her second EP called ‘London’ on the Harvest Records recording label. Shazam included her on its list of 2014 Acts To Watch and she was named to the iTunes list of New Artists for 2014. Banks’ reluctance to use social media is often noted by journalists. She says that she likes to speak and engage with her fans but isn’t as interested in social media such as Facebook or Twitter. In order to prove her point about communicating on a one-on-one level directly with her fans; Banks gave out her cell phone number on her management’s official Facebook page for the singer. She says that she receives mostly text messages from fans who she says are ‘too shy’ to speak to her on the phone and that the people who do call only want to speak to her about her music and how much they appreciate her as an artist. After finishing a tour with ‘The Weeknd’, she announced her own tour which is scheduled to begin in the United Kingdom in March 2014.

You can listen to a little bit of her single ‘Warm Water’ in the media player below.

Thanks to http://www.glamour.com/ for some biographical information.

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*Mario Cuomo: Vocals
*Dominic Corso: Guitar
*Matt O’Keefe: Guitar
*Grant Brinner: Bass
*Henry Brinner: Drums

The Orwells are an American rock band from Elmhurst, Illinois. The Orwells formed when all the members were in high school. The band released their first studio album entitled ‘Remember When’ on August 7 2012. In 2013, they performed on the ‘Lollapalooza’ tour. On November 22, 2013, Arctic Monkeys announced that The Orwells would be their support at nine American concerts in January and February 2014. The band were musical guests on ‘The Late Show With David Letterman’ and played the title track from their ‘Who Needs You’ EP. Mario Cuomo barked into the microphone, drunkenly strutted around the set, collapsed on the floor, thrusted his crotch upward, and then sat down in one of the chairs next to Letterman’s desk before finishing the song. Letterman and Paul Shaffer were so thrilled with the performance that they demanded the Orwells do an encore. In a weird turn of events, the band shrugged and left the stage leaving Letterman’s band leader Paul Shaffer to do an encore of the song along with Shaffer’s band mates.

You can listen to the single from their crazy performance on Letterman in the media player below.

Thanks to http://www.rollingstone.com/ for some biographical information.

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