07/16/09 • Danielia Cotton w/ Jamal Ford-Bey • 08:00 PM
As a performer, Danielia is glad she grew up pre-American Idol. "Most kids today, if you ask why they want to perform, they'll say they 'want to be a star' or 'be in the music business.' I liked music not because I saw it as a way to get out of the life I lived and have more than what I had, which wasn't that much. I did it because it was fun; it was like a drug. I've always felt a little selfish when people say, 'I do it for the people.' I do it because it does something for me."
Radio stations across the country appreciated Danielia's unique rock talent. After Danielia released her first studio album, 2005's Small White Town (Hipshake Records), WXPN/Philadelphia and home of the nationally syndicated World Caf named her "Artist To Watch" in 2005, slotted the album's soulful single, "It's Only Life" into heavy rotation, and featured her on their HDNetwork broadcast of "On Stage at World Caf Live". WXRT in Chicago featured Danielia on New Year's Eve, where she brought down the house in a live performance broadcast by ABC.
Extensive national touring followed. Danielia traveled the breadth of the country, opening for some of the greatest acts in music, from Blues legends Buddy Guy and Etta James to Pop Rock giant Bon Jovi, to the Southern Rock royalty of Gregg Allman, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Little Feat. Crossing boundaries was no problem for the versatile Danielia, who has wowed alternative rock audiences of the Flaming Lips, Staind and Collective Soul, among many others.
Danielia's unique talent drew rave reviews, with notices on her "raw intensity" (Essence magazine), her "soulful voice and searing telecaster" (Time Out NY) and for possessing "the sort of voice for which the phrase 'force of nature' was coined" (Austin American-Statesman). Relix magazine named Danielia one of the "5 Artists You Should Know" in 2007 and New York's Amsterdam News proclaimed Danielia "a powerful musician that cannot be ignored."
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