Friday, December 7, 2007

Check out Joss Stone's Christmas single

JOSS STONE releases Christmas single, "All I Want For Christmas" written and produced by Dan Mackenzie.
One thing leads to another: "All I Want For Christmas" is a song Dan Mackenzie wrote last year when he was commissioned to write a Christmas song for a holiday fundraiser. He sent it to Sue Devine, in ASCAP's Film/TV Dept as an FYI and she was so smitten with it... not usually in the business of pitching songs to film and TV, she made an exception for this one, and began to pitch it for Holiday placement. After receiving so many great responses, Dan decided that a female vocal would add a certain something. And so, just one month ago, he sent it out to JOSS STONE... who fell in love with it and recorded it while fully immersed in a European tour. Virgin Records has sent it out to radio, it will be available on iTunes December 18th, and it is streaming now from http://www.myspace.com/jossstone. HEAR IT AT: http://www.myspace.com/jossstone

JOSS STONE has sold more than 7.5 million albums worldwide; been nominated for four Grammy Awards; appeared on stage with James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Patti Labelle, Mavis Staples, Donna Summer, and Smokey Robinson; sat for an interview with Oprah Winfrey; starred in two major ad campaigns for the Gap; and performed for more than 200,000 people at the 2005 Live 8 Concert in London - all before reaching the ripe old age of 19.
DAN MACKENZIE won the ASCAP Sammy Cahn Lyricist Award in 2004. Dan Mackenzie is an EMMY nominated songwriter who has also won the prestigious ASCAP Sammy Cahn Lyricist Award (other winners include John Mayer, Josh Ritter and Lori McKenna.) He has recently been writing several songs for the upcoming Holly/Bollywood musical film, "Basmati Blues," (other tunes penned by Moby, Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach) and has had numerous song placements in film and TV. Dan has just completed his own new release, The Universe Is A Great Big Place, (produced by Dan Mackenzie, Chris Keup and Stewart Myers, mixed by Robbie "Achtung Baby" Adams.)

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