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Meet Shukura Holliday, an LA native and worldwide entertainer. When you hear the sound of her voice you are transformed with a soulful breathe of fresh air as you recognize the extraordinary.She began her career as a teen performing on numerous projects around the Los Angeles Empire. Being the third daughter of legendary vocal coach Doc Holliday, she was exposed to the entertainment industry and diverse genres of music at an early age. At 18 yrs old Shukura moved to New York City, where she enrolled in Pratt Institute to major in communications design and study classical opera. There she spent her time playing the role of student by day, while by night she was sneaking into nightclubs to perform as many gigs as possible.Whether in the bustling streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan, on subway trains or wherever she could gather a crowd Shukura was ready and willing to entertain at all costs. Her first expression-album (as she likes to call it) "Collage" was circulated as an independent mix-tape. While in school, Shukura collaborated on numerous music projects and connected with numerous internationally artist like herself. Thus, allowing her the freedom to create numerous music collaborations with acoustic-rock artist to local hip-hop superstars.Shukura had the opportunity to work with artist such as underground Japanese hip-hop group Takarabune out of Tokyo, doing a run of performances throughout the city in January of 2007. Also, her acquaintance with French Electro-Soul group Outlines allowed Shukura to write and perform the end credits song for European Film Babylon A.D set to release Fall 2008.Recently, Shukura has graduated and is back in LA working especially hard on her solo-debut with an exclusive sound. A fusion so to speak, combining a soulful voice, witty lyrics, electro-hip hop beats with classical structure. Drawing from a continuum of inspirations from Madonna to Curtis Mayfield, Shukura is bound to share her elemental gifts with the world.