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About Me

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â€œAdjoa Skinner has a pretty, lilting voice that is smooth, creamy and girlish, but she is also capable of belting her vocals with forceful, authoritative conviction...the arrangements are complex and intricate, characterized by odd time signatures and unusual chord progressions... " - Harriet Kaplan, Music Connection Magazine, April 2007
Born and raised in New York by musicians she began performing at the age of two. In 2000 Skinner won a highly sought after voice scholarship to the Crane Conservatory, NY. She chose instead to experience the culture and music of East, South and West Africa, where she lived for two years and received the name Adjoa. In 2006 Skinner moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career full-time as a vocalist, songwriter and musician, playing piano, guitar, drums and flute.
She now performs regularly at clubs in Los Angeles including The world famous Viper Room & The Derby, Tangier, The Comedy and Magic Club (where Jay Leno performs weekly), Unknown theatre, as well as an ongoing residency at Molly Maloneâ€™s.
Adjoa Skinner has opened for Reeve Carney, Tommy King, Guitar Virtuoso Adrian Legg (voted Guitarist of the Decade by Guitarist Magazine), Leon Mobley (percussionist for Ben Harper), Andrea Hamilton, Amy Kuney, Micah Dahlberg, and world-renowned speaker Erwin McManus.
This Spring 2008, she releases a new Live CD of her weekly performances at Molly Malone's, LA. Skinner is also recording a studio album, which will be completed Summer 2008.
Adjoa Skinner was sought as an artist for the new digital distribution label Molly Malone's Music. She signed a non-exclusive music licensing deal with DL Music in 2007, and is currently working with A&R Select, the hottest indie A&R firm in Hollywood, CA. Adjoa Skinner is endorsed by Sennheiser Microphones and is performing on behalf of Sennheiser at NAMM 2008 in Anaheim.
More information is available by visiting www.adjoaskinner.com
REVIEWS:
"That is some voice she has there. Excellent pitch!" - Eddie, Big Daddy Recording
"Beautiful music, Beautiful soul." - Erwin and Kim McManus, MOSAIC
"Adjoa is a fresh, young, incredible talent whose star is on the RISE." - Ashley Maher, Musician
"Awesome....beautiful vocals.." - Jeffrey, Machi Entertainment
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/19/2005
Band Website: adjoaskinner.com
Band Members:

Adjoa on vocals, background vocals, keyboard, classical guitar, flute & djembe.

LIVE Performances with the band:
Young Professor - drums
Lance Beckford - percussion
Justin DiCenzo - bass
Satoshi Mark Noguchi - bass, flute, programming
Chris Franz - guitar

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Influences: LIVE CD & Single AVAILABLE NOW @ www.MollyMalonesMusic.com

My greatest musical influences would be:
My Mom, Susan Rozler (check out www.susanrozler.com)
& my Step-dad, Joe Rozler. Both absolutely incredible musicians.
JAZZ: Ella Fitzgerald, Norah Jones, Jamie Cullum, Keith Jarrett, Harry Connick Jr.
FOLK: Joni Mitchell, Jewel, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake
SOUL: Stevie Wonder, India Arie, Aretha Franklin, Joss Stone
POP: Sting, John Mayer, Peter Gabriel
ROCK: Sheryl Crow, Travis, U2, Coldplay, Delirious, Carney
WORLD: Zap Mama, Bobby McFerrin, Nicholas Oddoye (my Ghanian mentor) and all my friends from the School of Worship in Tema, Ghana: Grace, Abby, Debby, Nicholson, Edith, Robert, Isaac, Jamel, Mbainaissem Selethiel, Nana Ama, Eman, Martin Luther and so many more.... I love you!

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Sounds Like: Sarah Bareilles Amel Larrieux Ella Fitzgerald & Jeff Buckley's love child Diana Krall Norah Jones Corinne Bailey Rae Indie Arie

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Music Video for the Humane Society

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4zJtFy24l0 This was a music video for a song that I re-arranged and did my own take of the old hymn "All Things Bright And Beautiful" for the Humane Society's...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:57:00 PST

Live Performance on Cable Access Show

Check out this video: Adjoa Skinner, featuring Justin DiCenzo & Lance Beckford ...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:46:00 PST

Adjoa Skinner Promo Video

http://vimeo.com/1656752 Hey everyone here's a 3 minute promo video that I wanna share with you. Tell me what you think :-) Thanks!!!...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:38:00 PST

Get off my lawn, your trampsin on the daisies.

Blog 3From the Series "The Grass is always greener...."Loving those who hate you....When you hear that you usually think of that pestering neighbor, or that person at your work that always seems to po...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:07:00 PST

6 foot grass and a pain in the ass

This morning my sister called me with the report that her phone carrier wiped out all of her contacts...her blackberry is now a clean slate, and she had no back-up whatsoever. At first thought, you mi...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:02:00 PST

Blog 1 The grass is always greener on the other side

I was talking with my mom the other day. She was saying how in life there's so many good things that happen...but it seems no matter how the good outweighs the bad...there's always that one thing... t...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:28:00 PST

If I only had a blog

What is a blog?According to Wikipedia a blog is:(an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or ot...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:49:00 PST

Taking Over Tuesdays @ Genghis Cohen

Great News Tomorrow kicks off Taking Over Tuesdays @ Genghis CohenI'm excited for some great music and can't wait to see you there too!Jacqueline Epcar and her fantastic band including killer guitaris...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:10:00 PST

Chipmunks for hire

hahahahahacheck it out.So I was going to Ameystreet to check out some music.I found my player and WOW I mean if someone was looking for a quick listen...they got it!I thought I'd put the player up on ...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:56:00 PST

my current top friends

Hey people. My current top friends are people that I play with, and who I think are absolutely wonderful and you should listen to their stuff!that's all...
Posted by Adjoa Skinner on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:47:00 PST