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About Me

While Miya Collins was working on a her smooth jazz vocal album she ended up composing a whole bunch of tunes that didn't fit on that particular project. The tunes basically ended up being more "groove-orientated." Hence, Paradise Groove was born. The Paradise Groove project primarily focuses on Electronica, Acid Jazz, Breakbeat, Big Beat, Hiphop, Disco, House, and Funk elements. Having a passion for what happens behind the scenes in the music industry, this project intends to showcase her skills as DJ, Producer and Musician. Bringing together an intriguing mix of select samples combined with her own instrumentation.
Paradise Groove or P.G. is a native of the Seattle area. She was first exposed to music at a very young age, often hearing the strains of: The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Cream, Mahaila Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Pat Benatar, James Brown, Jethro Tull, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, B.B. King, Bach, Tchikosky and many others, coming from her father's extensive vinyl collection. She has been writing music since she was 5 years old and won a district level compeition for her neo classical piano composition,"Dream of the World in Harmony" at the age of 9 and has built quite a large catalogue of unreleased and yet to be heard material including a symphonic work. "It's always been hard for me to let people hear my music, "I fall in the catagory of: I'm really critical of my work and maybe that's my achilles heel, I"m not the kind of person that goes here listen to this, it's always been easier for me to promote other people's music." Her high school years were filled with awards, accolades, praise from her peers and scholarships for her vocal and violin abilities: She was selected for All-NW Choir (several states), All-State Choir, All-State Jazz Choir and All-State Orchestra and she was fortunate to receive Musical Scholarships to both schools she appiled for: Western Washington University and Pacific Luthern University for violin and voice. "It's funny I always wanted to be a horn player when I was little girl but my parents were like well your brother has this a quarter size violin that he's not using, so here, But I've grew to appreciate it." She has headed her own Jazz Trio, shared the stage with notable artists and continues to be in demand as a DJ frequently getting booked for club gigs as well as steady stream of private and corporate parties due to her knowledge and love of music spanning several genres and times. You can find her vocal contributions on two internationally distributed releases and now she is ready to expose and release her own productions to a worldwide audience, and hopefully somebody out there will be listening and feeling what she has to offer.
Next Cuts on deck coming soon (in no particular order):
Hiphop-Soul "The Air-Turntable Ballistic Mix (MF Clean Edit)" *You can find that in the flash tape player below*
Disco Electronica-"Future"
Tropical Hiphop bumper-"Groove Paradise" (Miya Collins on Vocals)
RetroFunk Breaks-"Child's Play"
ElectroRock-"Missing You"
Funky Breaks-"Yo"
Acid Jazz-"Tonight"
Acid Jazz/Ambient-"Haunted Memories"
(If Motown doesn't get mad at me. ;-)) Edwin Starr Remix
A Song from my "old vaults" called Perpetual Motion no samples on this one all me. (I'm gonna redo the drums though they kind of suck, so It'll be Perpetual Motion 2008)
Questions -(LaidBack Throbber mix)
Survive-Miya Collins (Paradise Groove Remix)
....and a whole bunch of other stuff~
Stay Tuned!
A full length CD is in the works.
Here's: The Air-(Turntable Ballistic Mix MF Clean Edit)-Paradise Groove
I've been having a problem getting anything to sound decent in the myspace player until stuff is mastered I plan to do this with the rest of the songs too.
PG's Corner
Bands, Artists, please feel free to add Paradise Groove as your friend, PG definitely supports the Underground scene and Indie Labels, especially.
Hey, Do you have any promo's that I might like that you would like to expose when I DJ? Please send them to [email protected] or inquire about my mailing address. Thanks!
I plan on adding another flash player to this page with the mp3s at 320 instead of whatever the bitrate is on myspace. Errr.
*PG*

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Member Since: 5/7/2008
Band Members: Paradise Groove=Miya Collins

Software, Tools, and Musicial Gear that help me with my creative flow: Digidesign Protools, Adobe Audition, Reason, Acid Pro, Maudio Axiom Midi Controller, Cad Condenser, M-Audio Nova Condenser, Shure Beta 57, Korg Synth Workstation, Alesis Drum Machine, Dell Laptop, Dell Desktop, Adobe Photoshop, Ulead Photo Impact,

Influences: Fat Boy Slim, Chemical Brothers, Solsonics, Daft Punk, St. Germain, Marcus Miller, Comedy, Unusual sounds, Brand New Heavies, Incognito, Gota Yashiki, Deelite, Jamiroquai, Beck, Ronny Jordan, US3, Count Basic, Thievery Corporation, Tribe called Quest, Digable Planets, Q-Tip, Bootsy Collins, Tower of Power, Crusaders, Randy Crawford, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Roy Ayers, Earth Wind and Fire, Vibraphonic, Lynn Collins, Nine Inch Nails, Afrika Bambaataa, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Horace Silver, Parliament, Jurassic 5, Sade, Sweetback, Jam and Lewis, Babyface, Morris Day and the Time, Timbaland, Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson, David Sanborn, Coltrane, Everything on Bluenote, Nightmares on wax, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Blondie, JB Horns , George Michael, Sly and the family stone, Chaka Khan, Ohio Players, Prince, Patrice Rushen, Teena Marie, Tania Marie, Basia, The Roots, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, Grover, Bob James, DJ Greyboy, DJ Qbert, DJ Premier, DJ Quik, Old School Rap, Talbot White, Mobb Deep, Johnny Guitar Watson, Johnny Taylor, The Meters, Al Green, Bill Withers, Doors, Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Roots Reggae, Classical: Chopin, Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Schubert, Handel, Verdi, Beethoven, Debussy, The 80's-All of it, 90's Hiphop +Club Music,, Curtis Mayfield, Propellerheads, DelaSoul, Soulive, Rad, Omar, Gorillaz, United Future Organization, Martha Walsh, Madonna, Jellybean, Miguel Migs, ..pretty much anything Jazzy, Funky, Soulful, Slammin'....and no doubt....the list can go on and on...
Sounds Like: Paradise Groove!
Record Label: Paradise Groove Records and ?
Type of Label: Indie