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Cookie is a professional singer/entertainer, and works in the Atlantic City/Philadelphia/New York areas 5 to 7 days per week, singing and performing. She is well-known and loved by thousands of fans here, and internationally, a result of her international independent radio releases from the CD "If My Heart Had My Memory" several years ago. 4 songs from the CD charted on several independent charts, with "That's How You're Killing Me" reaching the coveted # 1! "MANHATTAN GRITS" is a very special album. The concept of the project, that of blending Country with Jazz, and using traditionally recognized "country instruments" like pedal steel guitar and fiddle in a jazz recording, was born during conversations between legendary jazz historian and DJ OSCAR TREADWELL..."O.T.", www.oscartreadwell.com and his nephew Paul Evans Pedersen, Jr. Recorded at Nashville's MAIN FRAME STUDIO, and DENNY MUSIC GROUP'S "DENNY'S DEN" Studios, "MANHATTAN GRITS" gently but unmistakably mixes traditional