From an early age it was clear which direction she would take. OCEANA’s whirlwind path could not be stopped. Her mother started taking her to concerts as a young child. She saw big name artists including Ziggy Marley, Burning Spear, James Brown and she felt drawn to the stage, where she wanted to sing and dance. She took ballet lessons, danced through studios and at the age of five she was given a part in a film directed by Hamburg’s Lars Becker. As a teenager she won a music scholarship and had her first singing lesson with the Italian vocalist Etta Scollo. Significant musical influence was given by the family’s record collection of artists like Billie Holiday and Etta James. Her initial and enduring experiences with jazz, funk and blues where taken with a family friend - legendary musician Maceo Parker. It was him who often asked OCEANA up on stage at his concerts and who got the ball of her musical career rolling with the sentence “You’re ready now; do your own thing!”.
Maceo Parker influenced and formed OCEANA’s musical and recording style: horn sets, Wurlitzer piano, electronic guitar-tremolo-effects from VOX amps, intrumentation as combined in swing beat and motown sound of the 60’s. Another element of her music are reggae influences - her intonation which she inherited by her father, a musician with carribean roots and with roots-reggae typical instrumentation like in the song “He Said” which was recorded with Jamaica legend Papa Curvin and mixed at Studio One, Kingston. OCEANA met her distinctive sound by the combination with contemporary Soul- and Hip-Hop Beats.
Against the background that OCEANA is in league with Seeed for a couple of years now the musical cycle closes. Demba Nabé, shaped by dub and dancehall, engaged OCEANA for the whole Boundzound tour 2007 where she was singing all female vocal parts. Those two are having a friendship for years and on the song “Bad Boy” Demba Nabé even does a featuring. Before the Boundzound tour OCEANA gained experience on tour with Seeed where she developed the performance concept and all choreographies. As an ambitious cosmopolitan she lived in Paris, Hamburg, London, New York, Los Angeles within the last years, and even some time on Martinique to discover her carribean roots. Her debut album “Love Supply” was recorded in New York and Hamburg in the end of 2008.
hi oceana, my children enzo and raphael want to kisss you...enzo thinks that you 're the most beautiful girl of the world ! good luck and appointment in Paris 11/12 love sebastien
Steig nicht in den "Flieger" Süsse... :) Hamburg City is nass, cold & verregnet... fucking weather! :( Lasst euch trotzdem gut gehen.... enjoy ur flight.... ;)
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"True you talking to true me Truly saying how you feel things are And how you feel they ought to be No ego tripping fear or pretension
You have to know the truth to love the truth" She said "Don't get caught off guard Letting what you think is true Rule your head Prove things wrong or right To live a clear-headed life Do true you, since you think you're so smart I see through you Who you feel the need to pretend to be And who you truly are
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Since our mind state decides our trajectory I need to be sure Which you is standing next to me So before we walk through life's park Let's really talk"
Sometimes a conversation can change your life Sometimes you run across someone You want around you for right Reasons Sometimes we get a glimpse of our own Possibilities Sometimes I remember the wise woman Who introduced me to me
Here's to True You Cheers to True You In all ways Shining through"
Salut Oceana, merci d'être passé dans le daily live, voici tes sessions live acoustiques : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-sj_t11co http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbH9PiMd_1s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg4RmVSYr_s
Miss Stranger, you're feeling more familiar than an intimate kiss Miss bliss, not with you around to look at Miss this opportunity When Our unity could build a community of art Naw, I'm not flirtin' Just hurting to tell you how beautiful you are
This is a moment in time, to photograph and tuck away Later, when you read this rhyme record of Things I feel inspired to time delay You'll hopefully smile a little smile And glance back at this memory At me saying I'm doing something Writing words, that for the moment I was chilling Vibing Too inspired to speak
Who knows Maybe I'll write you a couple of songs That might be finished in a couple of weeks Maybe they'll already be done By the time it takes to get you this piece of Hurt Art, that I've been dealing with
Miss Stranger, you're feeling more familiar than an intimate kiss Miss bliss, not with you around to look at Miss this opportunity When Our unity could build a community of art Naw, I'm not flirtin' Just hurting to tell you how beautiful you are
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