Listen to song – benefit album promotes Latino vote

Posted by Elena del Valle on July 21, 2008

Voto Latino benefit album cover

Photos: Nacional Records

In an effort to inspire Latinos to vote National Records collected a previously unreleased track by Pitbull and Kurse and 14 songs by Don Omar, Aterciopelados, Aventura, David Garza and Ozomatli into Voto Latino, a benefit album. Proceeds of the album will benefit Voto Latino, a non partisan organization. Scroll down to listen to Across the Waters by Pitbull and Kurse from the Voto Latino benefit album.

The 15-track Voto Latino album was released on iTunes earlier this year and has been selling steadily for $3.99. In the previously unreleased track Across The Waters Miami-based hip-hop artist Pitbull and Kurse sing about the plight of Cuban immigrants.

“To me it’s great to have a record like Across the Waters involved with Voto Latino iTunes because it represents everything we stand for, which is the struggle for freedom and opportunity,” said Pitbull.

“Music is the soundtrack to my life. The Voto Latino compilation is the soundtrack of a movement,” said Rosario Dawson, co-founder, Voto Latino, who recently starred in a telenovela parody public service announcement with Wilmer Valderrama.

Aterciopelados

“It encapsulates everything about the Latino drive to the polls so blast it on your way to change,” said Valderrama. “Music has proven to be an influential platform for our generation. This is the time to use it.”

Find out what multicultural kids across America think
Listen to Michele Valdovinos, SVP, Phoenix Multicultural in

“Marketing to Multicultural Kids” audio recording

Michele Valdovinos gives a presentation and participates in an extended Q&A discussion about multicultural children based on a Phoenix Multicultural and Nickelodeon study of 1,300 multicultural children in 16 United States markets.

Find out about

• The Phoenix Multicultural Kids Study
• Relationship between children and their context
• Issues relating to family, technology and media, diversity, buying power, relationships in household, self perception, values, acculturation, cultural heritage, frequency of media activity, income and spending, brand preferences, the American Dream
• How many billions of dollars buying power multicultural kids children have
• Children’s spending attitudes, habits by ethnicity
• How much money a year Hispanic kids have available to spend
• Types of products Hispanic kids buy

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The album artists and titles are: Notch, Aquí Me Quedo; Pitbull & Kurse, Across The Waters; Ozomatli, (Who Discovered) America?; Don Omar, Angelito; Los Amigos Invisibles, All Day Today; Salvador Santana Band, My One True Love; Ceu, Roda (Bombay Dub Orchestra’s Grateful Dub Mix); Aterciopelados, Cancion Protesta; Aventura, Mi Corazoncito; Chingo Bling, They Can’t Deport Us All; Ceci Bastida – Empieza A Amanecer; David Garza, There Go The Weirdos; Volumen Cero, El Mar; B-Side Players, Nuestras Demandas; Hip Hop Hoodíos, Viva La Guantanamera.

According to promotional materials, Nacional Records and iTunes are donating their proceeds from the benefit album. All proceeds will benefit Voto Latino’s voter registration, education and empowerment initiatives.

Founded in 2004, Voto Latino is a non-partisan organization that works to promote an enfranchised America by leveraging celebrity voices, the latest technology and youth themselves to promote positive change and voter empowerment throughout the Latino community. Voto Latino is targeting seven million American Latino voters aged 18-29, 18 percent of the youth vote, in preparation for the 2008 general elections.

Click on the play button to listen to Across the Waters by Pitbull and Kurse from the Voto Latino benefit album

Listen to podcast interview with Marci Shimoff, author, Happy for No Reason about finding happiness

Posted by Elena del Valle on July 14, 2008

Marci Shimoff, author, Happy for No Reason

A podcast interview with Marci Shimoff, author, Happy for No Reason 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out (Free Press, $24.95), is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Marci discusses her book and how to find happiness for no reason with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.

Marci is also author of the self-help book Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her six bestselling titles in the series, including Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, have met with stunning success, selling more than 13 million copies worldwide in 33 languages and have been on The New York Times bestseller list for 108 weeks.

Marci is a featured teacher in the international film and book The Secret. Her new book, Happy for No Reason was published January 2008 and offers an approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness.

Click here to buy Happy for No Reason

Marci has inspired many people around the world, sharing her methods for personal fulfillment and professional success. As president and co-founder of the Esteem Group she delivers keynote addresses and seminars on self-esteem, self-empowerment, and peak performance to corporations, professional and non-profit organizations, and women’s associations. She has been a trainer for Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, General Motors, Sears, Kaiser Permanente, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Marci earned her MBA from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and holds an advanced certificate as a stress management consultant. She is a founding member and on the board of directors of the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of 100 top leaders serving over ten million people in the self-development market.

To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Marci Shimoff,” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the July 2008 section of the podcast archive.

Watch video, listen to song – Barcelona duo releases new album

Posted by Elena del Valle on July 7, 2008

The Pinker Tones Wild Animals album cover

Photo, song: Nacional Records

The Pinker Tones, a Barcelona musical duo known for their electronic sounds, released a new album in early June 2008. Wild Animals, the band’s third album in the United States, was released right before the beginning of their Vans Warped Tour with more than 40 venues across the United States. The two previous albums released in the United States are The Million Colour Revolution and 2007 remix album More Colours! Scroll down to watch a music video and listen to a song from the new album.

“Our last album, The Million Colour Revolution, was about utopia, a projection for how we wanted the world to be,” said Mister Furia. “Wild Animals is about reality, our interpretation of the actual world we live in. Songs like The Whistling Song, 24 and On Se Promenait are some of our happiest and most nostalgic yet.”

Wild Animals features special vocal guests including reggae soul performer Jimmy Lindsay from Cymande on The Whistling Song, and Amparo from Spanish band Amparanoia on Electrotumbao. The first single was the track Happy Everywhere.

“Moving Beyond Traditional Media Measurement: measuring conversations and social media” audio recording

Presenter Katie Delahaye Paine, founder, KDPaine & Partners

Find out about

• Issues affecting online public relationships today
• Testing relationships as part of a survey
• Measuring ethnic group relationships
• Measuring foreign language communications in a similar ways to English
• Biggest challenges measuring conversations and social media
• Measuring online relationships with little or no money

Click here for information on “Moving Beyond Traditional Media Measurement”

The Pinker Tones

Mister Furia and Professor Manso are the artistic names of the musicians that make up The Pinker Tones. In 2007, the band was featured in The New York Times, was in an A&E television special, performed on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic program, had a song featured on the TV sitcoms Ugly Betty and Entourage, and had video play on mtvU, MTV Tr3s, Mun2, and LATV.

The Pinker Tones also made an appearance at last year’s SXSW, where they performed five shows in 36 hours and at KCRW’s Sounds Eclectic Evening in Los Angeles. The Pinker Tones recent single Karma Hunters was selected by Mun2 as the theme song for Chicas Project, a reality show.

Salvador Rey, Mister Furia, performs on vocals, guitar, keyboards and flute while Alex Llovet, Professor Manso, performs on keyboards, samples and drums. They met in college in the late 1990s and formed the Pinker Tones in 2001.

Click on the play button to watch the music video Happy Everywhere.

Click here to buy Wild Animals CD

Listen to podcast interview with Heather Dominick, owner, EnergyRich Coaching about how to use your energy to attract clients and customers

Posted by Elena del Valle on June 23, 2008

Heather Dominick, owner, EnergyRich Coaching, Inc.

Photo: Heather Dominick

A podcast interview with Heather Dominick, owner, EnergyRich Coaching, Inc. is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Heather discusses how to use your energy to attract clients and customers with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.

Heather is the creator of the EnergyRich Success System for Entrepreneurs: the essence of her years of education, energy and intuitive training, as well as marketing and sales tools. Heather uses this step-by-step system to coach women entrepreneurs by creating an energetic map to harness their energy. Her coaching philosophy is that an individual cannot do business, but needs to be business at a holistic level that integrates thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. She calls this managing your energy.

She believes it’s important that an entrepreneur do the inner and outer work necessary to activate this skill. Only when the entrepreneur has activated this skill internally can he or she fully and confidently present their business to others and the world.

A national speaker, Heather has inspired hundreds of women to build enough self-belief to achieve what seems to be impossible. She delivers keynote addresses and seminars on spiritual business practices to organizations and associations and consistently receives feedback about how her presentations amplify the audience energy levels and move them into action. She has presented for numerous organizations, including Con Edison, Transformation U, The Chopra Center, Pace University, and various coaching associations.

Heather has been interviewed by media publications and her writings have appeared on websites and in magazines, including WorkingWomen.com and For Her Information. She has more than 11 years of teaching and coaching experience in helping women entrepreneurs develop an authentic, energy-minded business simultaneously structured for more daily joy, service and bottom line profits.

To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Heather Dominick,” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the June 2008 section of the podcast archive.

“How to Use Your Energy to Attract Clients and Customers” audio recording

Presenter Heather Dominick, owner, EnergyRich Coaching, Inc.

A 106-minute audio recording including a presentation by Heather and the complete interview with Heather where she discusses:

• Heather’s step by step system for women entrepreneurs
• Her coaching philosophy that an individual needs to be business at a holistic level
• Core beliefs about creating magnificent marketing for your business
• How Heather transitioned from a high school drama teacher to a coach
• The three Os that characterized her life at the time
• Heather’s first steps to changing her life

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Listen to podcast interview with Alberto Oliva, editor in chief, Ser Padres about the magazine

Posted by Elena del Valle on June 16, 2008

Alberto Oliva, editor-in-chief, Ser Padres

Photo: Meredith Corporation

A podcast interview with Alberto Oliva, editor-in-chief, Ser Padres is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses the magazine with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.

Alberto joined Meredith Corporation, the parent company of Ser Padres, in October 2001 bringing more than 30 years of experience with Hispanic media as an editor, journalist and author. Ser Padres is Meredith’s parenting magazine for Hispanics launched in the fall of 1990 and one of the largest Spanish-language consumer magazines in the United States.

Prior to joining Ser Padres, Alberto was associate editor for People en Español from 1998-2001, U.S. bureau chief for Editorial Atlantida from 1984 to 1998 where he first began his career in 1970 as a journalist. During this time he also served as a reporter and journalist for the Associated Press in New York from 1976-1978.

Make your ads resonate with Hispanics
Listen to C&R’s Research Director Liria Barbosa in

“Hispanics’ Perspective on Advertising” audio recording

Liria Barbosa gives a presentation and participates in an extended Q&A discussion about

• Type of ads Latinos prefer
• Latino top media choices
• Percent of Latinos who tried products because of ads
• Percent of Latinos who purchased products because of ads
• What makes an ad “Hispanic”
• If ad language is important for bicultural Latinos
• What to keep in mind when targeting bicultural Latinos with ads

Click here for information on Hispanic Perspectives on Advertising

Alberto authored two books, Magazines that Make History published August 2004, and In Vogue, A visual history of the most influential fashion magazine in the world published October, 2006. He has a master’s degree in Communications from the Instituto Nacional del Profesorado in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A resident of New York City, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Salamanca in Spain from 2005 to 2008, at Stanford University in California from 2005 to 2007, and at New York University in New York in 2006. He is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.

To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Alberto Oliva” click on the play button or download it to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. You can also subscribe to the podcast by right clicking over the podcast box and selecting “copy shortcut” then inserting the URL address in the podcast section of your iTunes program listed under the “advanced” column. The podcast will remain listed in the June 2008 section of the podcast.

Listen to song – Tijuana electronica band releases new album

Posted by Elena del Valle on June 2, 2008

Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible Tijuana Sound Machine album cover

Photo, song: Nacional Records

Tijuana’s electronica band Nortec Collective released a new album, Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible Tijuana Sound Machine (Nacional Records), in early May 2008. According to promotional materials, these musicians created and perform Nortec, a style of music they invented, as a fusion of Norteño (Spanish for from the North) and techno; to document the collision between the style and culture of electronica and traditional Mexican music. Scroll down to listen to the first single off the new album the title track, Tijuana Sound Machine.

“With Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3, we focused on fusing vocoders, synthesizers and drum machines with the Norteño flavor,” said Pepe Mogt (Fussible). “This time around, we really relied more on the acoustic sound. We tried to achieve a better balance between the acoustics and the electronics. While some tracks on Tijuana Sound Machine aren’t even a month old yet, others have been around for a couple of years. We actually wrote many of these songs while on the road promoting Tijuana Sessions .”

Make your ads resonate with Hispanics
Listen to C&R’s Research Director Liria Barbosa in

“Hispanics’ Perspective on Advertising” audio recording

Liria Barbosa gives a presentation and participates in an extended Q&A discussion about

• Type of ads Latinos prefer
• Latino top media choices
• Percent of Latinos who tried products because of ads
• Percent of Latinos who purchased products because of ads
• What makes an ad “Hispanic”
• If ad language is important for bicultural Latinos
• What to keep in mind when targeting bicultural Latinos with ads

Click here for information on Hispanic Perspectives on Advertising

Following the launch of Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3, Nortec Collective toured internationally, performing in Latin America, United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. They presented at Vive Latino (Latin America’s Coachella), Rokslide Festival (Denmark), Sonar Festival (Barcelona), Smithsonian Institute and Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) and Bellas Artes Museum (Mexico City). An extensive U.S. tour featuring Bostich and Fussible is planned to coincide with the new release.

“In every place we have toured to, whether it is Australia, Japan or the U.S., crowds respond differently,” said Fussible. “Even in Mexico, the response changes from town to town. But when it comes down to it, they are coming to our shows for the music, no matter whether they found it through a friend or online. So they are super enthusiastic either way. The real fun challenge comes when we play at festivals with audiences that are hearing our music for the first time.”

Bostich and Fussible

In 2005, Nortec Collective received two Grammy nominations for Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3, for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package. The group’s music has appeared in commercials for Volvo, Dell, Fidelity Mutual, Edwin Jeans and Nissan.

Tracks from Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3 can also be heard in HBO’s “Big Love,” NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” and the movies “Fast Food Nation” and “Babel” as well as the video games, FIFA Soccer and FIFA Street 2. An interactive coffee table book, Paso del Nortec- This Is Tijuana dedicated to the Nortec phenomena, was published in the United States, Mexico and Europe.

Five artists, Fussible, Bostich (Ramón Amezcua), Panóptica (Roberto Mendoza), Clorofila (Jorge Verdín) and Hiperboreal (PG Beas) make up Nortec Collective. Bostich and Fussible’s are touted as the masterminds of the band’s previous tracks Tengo La Voz, Tijuana Bass, and Tijuana Makes Me Happy off the double Grammy-nominated 2005 album Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3.

Click on the play button to listen to Tijuana Sound Machine from Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible Tijuana Sound Machine album.

Listen to podcast interview with Federico Subervi, Ph.D., Texas State University, and Stacey Connaughton, Ph.D., Purdue University about mass media and Latino politics

Posted by Elena del Valle on May 19, 2008

Stacey L. Connaughton, Ph.D. and Federico Subervi, Ph.D.

Photos: Stacey L. Connaughton, Ph.D., Federico Subervi, Ph.D.

A podcast featuring an interview with Federico Subervi, Ph.D., professor, Texas State University-San Marcos and Stacey L. Connaughton, Ph.D., faculty member, Department of Communication at Purdue University is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, they discuss mass media and Latino politics based on the recently published book by the same title with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast. 

Federico is director of the Center for the Study of Latino Media & Markets at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas State University-San Marcos.  Since the early 1980s, he has been conducting research, publishing and teaching on a broad range of issues related to the mass media and ethnic minorities, especially Latinos in the United States. He is the editor and an author of the book The Mass Media and Latino Politic Studies of U.S. Media Content, Campaign Strategies and Survey Research: 1984-2004.

Federico is the principal investigator of two research grants (one from the Ford Foundation, another from the Social Science Research Council) focused on analyzing the diversity of Latino-oriented media in central Texas. He is also the principal investigator of a McCormick-Tribune Foundation grant to assess the practices and policies of Texas and Illinois for communicating with non-English-speaking populations during emergency situations.

Click here to buy The Mass Media and Latino Politics 

Stacey teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational communication theory and leadership at Purdue. Her research interests include identification and leadership in geographically distributed contexts, particularly as these issues relate to virtual teams and organizations and political parties. Her book, Inviting Latino Voters: Party Messages and Latino Party Identification, was published in 2005 by Routledge and she is a contributing author of the book The Mass Media and Latino Politics.

Stacey is a Senior Consortium research fellow at the U.S. Army Research Institute where she serves as the Consortium’s thought leader on virtual leadership and teams. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Leadership Institute at ICF International, and has served as an academic representative to the Conference Board of New York’s Knowledge Management and Learning Division.

To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right side, then select “HMPR Federico Subervi, Ph.D. Stacey Connaughton, Ph.D.” Click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the May 2008 section of the podcast archive.

Watch video, listen to song – New artist enters electronic techno music scene

Posted by Elena del Valle on May 12, 2008

Backdrop album cover

Photos, video, song: SGM Records

Oakland, California resident David Privat-Gilman, known by his artistic name David P-G, has taken the first step in the professional music business at a young age. SGM Records signed him up at 17 and now his first electronic-techno album, Backdrop, is available for the whole word to purchase.  An American-Peruvian, David P-G composed, produced and promoted his first album while he was a senior in high school. Scroll down to watch Glenbrook music video and listen to Glenbrook from the Backdrop album.

David P-G producer and composer

“I very much enjoyed it. I spent hours each day working on songs because I got hooked on it,” said David P-G, who was influenced by varied music genres and incorporates different styles in his music, from hip-hip to techno.

David P-G  

He composed the music, arranged the songs, produced and designed his album cover with his drawings and photographs. His first single Glenbrook and 12 other tracks are on sale at iTunes.com. David P-G plans to promote his music in the San Francisco Bay area and in his hometown.

Many of his songs were made in his early teens and he continues to pursue music as he enters college. SGM Records, a record label and production company, conducts digital video production specializing in music videos, TV commercials and public service announcements.

Reach Hispanics online today with

“Marketing to Hispanics Online” audio recording

Identifying and characterizing the booming Hispanic online market

Joel Bary, Alex Carvallo and Matias Perel

Find out about

• The 16 million Latino online users
• Latino online users by gender
• What they do online
• Their language preferences
• How to reach Hispanic urban youth online
• What affects their online behavior
• What influences their purchases

Click here for information about “Marketing to Hispanics Online”

Click on the play button to listen to Glenbrook from the Backdrop album

Listen to podcast interview with Katie Delahaye Paine, CEO, KDPaine and Partners about measuring conversations, social media

Posted by Elena del Valle on May 5, 2008

Katie Delahaye Paine, founder, KDPaine & Partners LLC

Photo: KDPaine & Partners LLC

A podcast interview with Katie Delahaye Paine, founder of KDPaine & Partners LLC, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Katie discusses moving beyond traditional media measurement and measuring conversations and social media and addressing Hispanic market issues with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.

Katie is the founder of KDPaine & Partners LLC and publisher of the first blog and the first newsletters for marketing and communications professionals dedicated entirely to measurement and accountability. Her book, Measuring Public Relationships, the Data-Driven Communicator’s Guide to Success , was published in December of 2007. She writes KDPaine’s Measurement Blog and publishes The Measurement Standard. Prior to launching KDPaine & Partners in 2002, Katie was the founder and president of The Delahaye Group, which she sold to Medialink in 1999.

She works with, among others, Raytheon, Allstate, Facebook, and Southwest Airlines. Most recently, her endeavors have been focused on social media measurement as well as providing cost effective measurement programs for non-profits, small businesses and government agencies.

Click here to buy Measuring Public Relationships

Katie was named the 2007 New Hampshire Woman Business Owner of the Year by the Small Business Administration. In 2006, she was named the Entrepreneurial Venture Creator Person of the Year by the University of New Hampshire and won the Business Excellence Award for Excellence in Media & Marketing from New Hampshire Business Review. 

A Cum Laude graduate of Connecticut College’s class of 1974, Katie majored in history and Asian studies. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from New Hampshire College in May 1996. She is an Athena award winner and a board member of the New Hampshire Political Library. 

To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Katie Delahaye Paine,” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the May 2008 section of the podcast archive.

Listen to song – New Jersey duo first album to be released online April 2008

Posted by Elena del Valle on April 28, 2008

Deeper Down album cover

Photos, song: HardKandy records Inc. 

Deeper Down, the first Royal Doll album, will be released online via iTunes.com, iTunes International, Emusic.com, Amazon.com, napster.com, this month. It will sell for $9.99 for the album or .99 cents per song. The album, which includes pop, trip hop, alternative, rock and R & B rhythms, has 15 songs including 14 new songs and a remix. Vocalist Damaris De Jesus and Producer and multi-instrumentalist Greg L. Hines, known by his artistic name Mad Scientist Brother Noyze The Mad Musician,  make up Royal Doll.

“It’s a funny story. A guitarist friend of mine and I were discussing our favorite movies. We both agreed on Willy Wonka as an all time great movie. He mentioned to me the author of the original book they based the movie on (Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) was named Roald Dahl. I thought he said Royal Doll. I told him the guy had a great name, Royal Doll. He the said no; Roald Dahl. We both died laughing, ” said Hines, chief executive officer and president, HardKandy Records Inc. when asked about the origin of the name Royal Doll. “I then told him when I found the right vocalist I was going to name a project Royal Doll. Years later I found the beautiful Damaris De Jesus a true Royal Doll and knew the project we were working on would fit the name.”

Mad Scientist Brother Noyze The Mad Musician was born in Newark, New Jersey. His first original song involved five human beat boxes orchestrated and mixed with original sound effects he recorded with a tape deck. Hines was named Brother Noyze The Mad Musician because he used odd sonic textures in his musical compositions.

Mad Scientist Brother Noyze The Mad Musician and Damaris De Jesus

Hines’ love of noise and odd sonic textures comes from his fondness for Sci-Fi and from years working in a factory where he used to Human Beatbox in time with the machinery. After eight years of music production, he developed House of Ill Repute, a project in which he is a vocalist and released the EP Are You My Eve? as well as the album Confessions of a Lover Gone Mad. Later, Hines returned to music production specializing in hybrid music types and started HardKandy Records as an outlet for his music. 

De jesus also a Newark, New Jersey native found refuge from difficult moments in music. A chance meeting with Brother Noyze during a talent show led to the signing of a solo album for her. He also invited her to be the lead singer for Royal Doll.

Click on the play button to listen to Return My Love from the deeper Down album