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About the Artist Forget Bohemian lofts or any other romantic notions about how artists live. Rachel Yamagata has just signed her first record deal--with RCA Victor Group--and is essentially launching her solo career from a 900-square-foot Ukrainian Village apartment that has all the ambiance of a weather center. Everything you’d expect to find in her date book is scrawled on five-foot sheets of white paper that she found in an alley. One sheet is a calendar showing 23 days of upcoming meetings in New York and Los Angeles. Near it is a list of CDs--albums by Beck, Ryan Adams, and Bonnie Raitt--done with producers she likes. She needs to hire one, assemble a band, and book a concert tour, all in a few months’ time. Yamagata, whose father is Japanese, graduated from Northwestern University, where she majored in theatre. Honing her seductive style during the five years she spent with Bumpus, a Chicago funk and hip-hop fusion band, she wrote songs in her hotel room between shows—"when the guys were watching a movie," she says. Meanwhile, scouts compared her with pop heavyweights, Fiona Apple and Sarah McLachlan. In 2000 she sang at the Viper Room in Los Angeles for record executives who wanted a private concert. Several of these showcases followed, and she signed her two-record deal in September 2002. She aims to finish her first CD in a year. But as she pets her cat, Henry, she is marvelously matter-of-fact about the way a record deal injects life with equal parts glamour and rock ‘n’ roll grit. "I’ll have tons of meetings, writing sessions, lunches, and dinners with the label people," she says of an upcoming trip to New York. "Then I’ll go to my brother’s place and camp out on his floor." –Noah Isackson "Chicago Magazine" Product Description With her for melody and deep-sinking emotional hooks, Racheal Yamagata has sparked an almost unprecedented level of excitement and expectation amongst both record industry pros nad music fans alike. Her debut EP, consists of soulful vocals and tracks such as: "Known for Years", "Worn Me Down", and "Would Be Please".
ASIN: B0000C3GZ1
VSKU: DBV.B0000C3GZ1.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Rachael Yamagata
Binding: Audio cd
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