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.
I wish you of hearts much light and love at these Christmas holidays, so much that you this love and this light to all humans you meet pass on can, because that is the real sense of this marvelous Christmas season. On it become warm, or also remains in our hearts and in the hearts of our fellow men. The same I wish you also for the year 2010, because actually Christmas should be in this sense each day. In light and love of hearts ^^CAMARILLA^^
Nebem all dem Gedöns wünschen wir Dir ein frohes Fest und nen juten Rutsch ins Jahr 2010! Die besten Grüße aus Essen Ro'Shan --> LeProf, Ro', Bob und der Trainer
Habt ne schöne Zeit... verbringt & geniesst das Fest der Liebe im Kreise eurer Liebsten! Findet Zeit zum Ausruhen und zum sammeln neuer Kräfte für 2010! Ein Jahr ohne Sorgen und mit so viel Erfolg wie ihr braucht, um zufrieden zu sein! Stress nur so "viel" wie ihr vertragt, um gesund zu bleiben! ;)
FAVE RAVE ----------------- a new party series starting off with Mr. Popp's Birthday Bang! --------------------------------------------------- Saturday, the 19th of December, 22 h --------------------------------------------------- Great bands kick up a breeze and lovely deejays spin a fabulous mix of Garage, Rock & Roll, 60s, Indie, Punk, Stoner, New Wave, etc Live On Stage: THE MAGNIFICENT BROTHERHOOD & THE SMOKIN' 44's DJs: FREDDY ROCOCO (King Khan & The Shrines) ANNIKA TROST (Cobra Killer) BONECRUSHER (No Pain No Brain / WTFF) FRANK POPP & MISS NICO (TV EYE Labelfest) Bands start at 22.30, so come early! PRIVATCLUB Pücklerstrasse 34, Berlin Kreuzberg U-Görlitzer Bahnhof
"Dear Lee was smarter then all Does who had came before before him An unexpected Martial arts phenomenon The place he lived soon became known as the Petrified Forrest No hunter dared raise a weapon to his people because of fear All was well for as long as he lived there Cautious Humans put up signs outside of his territory It became known as the 1st wildlife preserve
It's rumored that Rude Darf a cousin of his With a substance abuse problem challenged Dear Lee Only to flee after receiving one blow To his overly sensitive nose It is said that he modified the story And made a name for himself elsewhere
Unfortunately for the inhabitants of the Petrified Forrest Everything changed when Dear Lee departed It is said that he was last seen in Venice somewhere with two chicks They looked hot The validity of that story has never been confirmed Even though It is favored by drunken bears Who seem to get a laugh out of it every time it's told It is only fair to mention that Dear Lee knocked the "paws off" Of the bears' champion fighter And that is actually where that saying originated So the story that they are so fond of spreading to many seems to be a sly attempt at revenge
However, what is known is that everywhere Does who know Await Dear Lee's Return"
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