As I'm a featured Artist, its just me and whoever else I'm working with at the time which usually means I'm working with a number of DJ/Producer/Labels simultaneously!!
Influences
Influences include my singing mentor the legendary Lisa "Bad Habit" Millett!!! Chaka Khan, Martha Wash, Jocelyn Brown, Donny Hathaway, C&C Music Factory, Paradise Garage, Larry Levan, West End Records, Funky Green Dogs, etc !!!
Sounds Like
The bastard love child of belting soul DIVAs Chaka Khan, Martha Wash, Jocelyn Brown with shades of smooth soulful male vocals of Donny Hathaway!!
Record Label
Hed Kandi,Ministry of Sound, LAY Records,Celebrity
London/Kent based, Amrick Channa, is a Vocalist and Topline writer in the Soulful/Funky
House music field. His unique and distinctive soulful powerhouse style of
singing is courtesy of the various divas he grew up listening to whether its
disco or vocal house. A huge influence on his powerhouse singing is his mentor Lisa "Bad Habit" Millett! Amrick has recently returned from the Miami winter conference '07 where he successfully performed to huge audiences in South Beach at Barbara Tucker's party amongst many others. He also hosted parties & was interviewed for Miami Fashion Week TV which will be broadcast all across Latin American territories on regular rotation!
Amrick has records signed for release on labels in the USA, UK & Europe. Recently confirmed is his track with the Cookie Monsterz, which is featured on the Ministry of Sound compilation CD - Stereo Sushi Vol.10 out in April 2007. Amrick's collaboration with Italy's Black Legend/Jackie Reverse on the track "In the heat of the night" made it onto Pete Tong's Essential Selection on BBC Radio One. That track along with Hindu Summer were broadcast on Kiss FM amongst others and were hits all across Europe!
Amrick enjoyed new found success in the UK & European dance charts with his hit
"Hindu Summer" which was his collaboration with Manchester's Jason Herd (of Herd
& Fitz). Other collaborations followed with who's who of House music royalty
from Italy's Black Legend/J-Reverse, US DJ Tom Stephan (Superchumbo), London's
DJD Hydraulic Dogs (Shake it baby), Breakbeat maestro's Deekline & Wizard.
Whilst forthcoming projects include collaborations with the legendary Sandy
Rivera (Kings of Tomorrow/Defected), Pete Heller, LAY Records boss DJ Dealer and Paris DJ Kid Massive amongst many others!
Amrick has performed at the Miami Dance Music Conference (2006), courtesy of The Supperclub, London's Ministry of Sound (Soul Heaven), Cafe de Paris, The White House, The AKA bar, The Tabernacle and Camden's Electric Ballroom to name but a few. Forthcoming gigs include Miami 2008, Ibiza, Italy, Paris and London.
Amrick has also had the unusual honour of having two of his tracks featured in the Toryumon Japanese ringtone download charts!!! These tracks were
collaborations with Berkshire based production duo Beatgem. Amrick is always interested in collaborating with DJ/producers/labels, so feel free to contact him via this site - no timewasters please!
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Thanks for the message Amrick, but most of all thanks for doing the shoot for us... Was a good laugh and can't wait to get all the pictures sorted out... I think they will be up during this week so keep an eye on our profile!
See you at ME1 on July 3rd - It's free entry so no excuses!
hey, just stopping to say hello,hope youre great, leaving some love x kaysee x Studio Punks ft Kaysee "TIME" out on Vendetta 26thMay Studio Punks ft Kaysee "LET ME GO" out on Loopfreaks out now
Alright man. Loving the tunes on your page. Yeah society is one of the best nights out in liverpool. I will be throwing up a mix later on in the week round about friday i will send you think the link once up. Catch you later mate!
Hi mate, no worries. Where abouts have you got gigs this summer over there? I havent got any as of yet, im going to enquire about getting some whilst im over there, i think that is a good way to approach getting work over there. Hope you enjoy my mix, let me know mate, speak soon.
waddup my brotha!!! yeah man, tha WMC wuz mad crazy!!! It'z all good bro... I'll b in Edinburgh Scotland w/ DJ Pierre May 17th @ some new joint called Washing Machine. Also, Pierre & I will b starting a AFRO ACID radio show April 30th on Push FM London every Wednesday nite...so U can get Ur AFRO ACID fix;) Other than that...it's bn Mad buzy w/ the label!!! Hit me @ mannycuevas@afroaciddigital.com GOD b w/ U alwayz my brother,
Hey Amrick, Thanks for dropping a note man. It was great meeting you also in Miami. I have some footage of you in a video on youtube and also pics of you here and on my website.
I was wondering where u were hence i haven't seen u logging on msn anymore!! How's Miami? :) Hope u had a great performance at the event!! ;) Hit me back with a video of it if anyone recorded!! Anyways just wanted to let u know that Rock Your Mind is already in my cart & soon will end up on cd ready to be played out :) Hope to hear soon from u!! Bring back good news from South Beach ;) Big Hugs! VSide
You're Singh-sational! Was good meeting you the other day - was even better to hear your singing voice! We need to hook up and work on some interesting music...
Aaaaamrick!! :) How u doing buddy? I was just recording a new mix and freedom was in the tracklist!! Wanted to drop by & show some luv!! :) Big hugs from Italy!! VSide
Nightmare!!!!! 10 hours! i flew i'm happy to say, took 90 mins... poor u, I hope u r ok, me and Stew had a crash last yr in london, it's very traumatic even when u r not badly hurt. which thankfully none of us were... isn't Pavel a sweetie? i signed his copy of Salty for him! anyway my dear happy 08 and try and come to ku klub / shinky shonky on 23rd for a catch up. k x
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