Album Notes

CD NOTES:

(Rose Colored Glasses...)

Rose Colored Glasses is not your conventional jazz, r&b, rock-soul or even hip-hop CD. It incorporates a bit of all these styles. It is an experience that literally takes its listener on a journey; a journey of music, sounds and words. With the spoken word serving as your guide, the music and sounds help you navigate through a myriad of emotions.

First you venture through the Middle Passage with "Answers In Retrospect," then you head to the country to sit in "The Kitchen" at mama's house. Next, it's off to the city to hear a little jazz in the club and be "Together As One" with your true love. Then you'll start to chant the sistah's anthem, "Let Me Tell U." The journey also makes a few stops with tracks specifically designed to honor men-"Tribute" and "Sweet Black Berry." Finally, you end with the instrumental version of the piece that started this whole journey, "Rose Colored Glasses."

When all is said and done, you will find that you have truly taken a journey within this CD. Yes, this is definitely a CD that will both entertain and educate!


ARTIST NOTES:

Nichelle Holliday is a poet, author, producer, educator and public speaker. She is the author of the book entitled, "Sheroes, Suga'mommas, Sistah-Girlfriends, & me," where some of the tracks on this CD originated. This Pasadena, California native, graduated from Spelman College. It was during her college years that she was exposed to several famous poets, authors, political and religious activists, that encouraged her to observe and write about her experiences. “It’s here I learned I could make a difference simply by the words I spoke into being or wrote into existence.”

Nichelle has performed her poetry throughout the United States gracing the stages of the prestigious Schomburg Museum in Harlem, New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. She was featured on the album, “A City Called Heaven” and toured with one of this country’s premiere female jazz violinist, Lesa Terry.

Nichelle is currently featured with Roy Ayers on the R& B single “Sheba’s Groove,”available on www.cafesoulallstars.com. The “Soul of Brazil” project, a six CD compilation of Brazilian and American R&B/Soul music, is yet another place you can hear her sultry voice.

This young artist did not stop there, she also produced and performed in what was dubbed one of the “must see” poetry shows in Los Angeles County— “Planet Poetry,” a monthly poetry & jazz showcase. She is currently performing throughout Los Angeles and is working on her second book.
"I’m an artist, that’s what I am and I will continue to paint images of life through the written and spoken word for as long as I can."

For Bookings:
R. Holliday
(626) 755-4067