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DANIELIA COTTON
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www.danielia.com
Danielia Cotton appears courtesy of HipShake Music.
 
ABOUT DANIELIA COTTON

Danielia Cotton’s music is not . . . relaxed, mellow, sweet or similar to anything else that’s out there.

Each throat-searing track on Danielia’s debut CD, Small White Town, showcases the shocking, raw power of her voice.  These are sheerly emotional songs—they hide nothing, they compromise nothing.

Raised on a tree-shaded street in New Jersey on the outskirts of Hopewell, an actual “small white town,” she never knew her father but grew up close to her mother, a gifted jazz singer. In her early years as one of only seven black kids at Hopewell Valley High School, her exposure to R&B and hip-hop was nonexistent: “I liked AC/DC, Judas Priest, Todd Rundgren … older stuff than what kids my age were hearing,” she remembers.

Danielia’s new CD (to be released in 2007) takes her songwriting and performing to an exciting new level. This song is a preview of what to expect….