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Coppe Cantrell’s “War Cry” Sparks Emotions & Inspires Action

Los Angeles, CA – Coppe Cantrell, the rising singer-songwriter and activist, has released her latest single “War Cry,” which has been receiving rave reviews from fans and critics alike. The song speaks to the struggles of marginalized communities and urges listeners to take action against oppression.

“War Cry” is a powerful anthem that delivers a strong message of empowerment, urging listeners to find their voice and fight against injustice. Cantrell’s raw and soulful vocals are complemented by the driving rhythm section and soaring guitars, creating a perfect blend of rock, soul, and blues.

In the song, Cantrell talks about Global Governance, New World Order, and other forms of oppression that continue to plague our society. With lyrics like “We won’t be silenced, we won’t be ignored,” “War Cry” is a call to arms for everyone to rise up and fight against these injustices.

“I wrote this song to inspire people to stand up for their rights and fight against the spiritual and physical wars that are happening around us,” said Cantrell. “we need to look at everything around us, and remember it’s not too late to have Jesus in our lives.

A warning of things to come and the looming war, because we as a nation have compromised our souls for free will, and we have to seek Jesus before it’s too late. “

“War Cry” is a testament to Cantrell’s incredible talent as both a singer and songwriter. Her ability to convey powerful messages through her music has made her a rising star in the music industry and a prominent voice in the fight for social justice.

The release of “War Cry” comes at a crucial time in our society, with issues of social justice at the forefront of many conversations. Cantrell’s song is a timely reminder that we all have a role to play in creating a more just and equitable world.

“War Cry” is now available on all major streaming platforms. For more information on Coppe Cantrell and her music, visit her website at www.coppecantrell.com.

Music: https://open.spotify.com/track/7yF6zF2233XVa70x38Sffz?si=22797a4567884802

Featured Artist of the Day: Susan Tahmoosh

By Linda Garnett

Indie Music Women’s Featured Artist of the Day is…

Susan Tahmoosh (@susantahmoosh)

NJ/NYC area based solo pianist Susan Tahmoosh began playing the piano at the age of 6. Although she had an appreciation for the challenges of studying classical music at the time, she began learning songs by ear and joined her first rock band at the age of 13.

Susan has performed and recorded with numerous cover and original bands in and around the New York City area, at venues such as CBGB’s, CAMI Hall, and David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall), Lincoln Center. Her complex range of influences and eclectic style has made her a sought-after keyboardist, performing with artists such as the late, great Phoebe Snow, Sinoa Loren (formerly of Seduction), Kate Schellenbach (formerly of Luscious Jackson), LP, Antigone Rising, Grace Millo, blues singer Amy Coleman, and opera singer Aprile Millo.

Susan is currently an indie music artist, focusing on solo piano work; arranging, recording, and producing unexpected interpretations of her favorite songs, by melding her favorite influential genres: classical, post-classical, alternative/indie, and pop/rock/blues. In her spare time, she has also been studying another favorite instrument, the cello. For more information: www.su

Susan’s latest EP, “Close to Me”, features Solo Piano versions of 3 popular songs: “Close to Me”, “Ruby Tuesday”, and “Dancing with a Stranger”. Her first Solo Piano release, “Titanium” has been added to over 10K Spotify user playlists, as well as the official Spotify playlist “The Sound of Classify”, along with notable artists 2Cellos and The Piano Guys. (Move over Piano Guys, and make room for this Indie Music Woman!)

For more info: susantahmoosh.com

Susan shared with me what it means to her personally to be an indie music woman artist:

“After many years of being a hired hand for bands and singer-songwriters as a pianist and (sometimes) bass player, I’m enjoying the liberating feeling of being an indie music artist for a few reasons: I love the freedom of setting my own goals, recording and producing my own music. Being an independent and solo artist, I’m also able to express the purest and most direct form of emotional expression to listeners. It’s truly fulfilling for me to create unique covers of songs, give them a completely different (and unexpected) emotional feel, and to share them worldwide. My first solo release was an experiment; I had no idea that it would become such a listener favorite! Thank you to listeners everywhere; I’m so grateful.”

You can hear Susan’s song, “Closer to You” the title track from her latest EP, on the Indie Music Women’s Spotify Playlist.

Nancy Sanchez’ La Gran Civilización: a musical tour de forcé unstoppable in any language

By Linda Garnett

Nancy Sanchez’ La Gran Civilización: a musical tour de forcé unstoppable in any language

by Patrick O’Heffernan

Nancy Sanchez is imparable – unstoppable – because she nunca parable – never stops. This
persistence, celebrated in “Imparable” on her latest album La Gran Civilización, plus her
seemingly unlimited talent and non-stop work ethic, has made her one of the fastest rising stars
in today’s diverse musical firmament. It has also helped her shatter the stereotypes of what
women, especially immigrant women, can do and achieve.

The album, which she calls Mexican-American Art Pop, ranges across languages, genres,
nations and collaborators in a collection of 11 stand out songs Sanchez wrote and produced over
the past year with artists she admires and loves. Each is a work of genius in its own right and
together they form an unforgettable musical adventure through the modern archeology of
Mexico’s grand civilizations from the Olmecs to today’s Chicanx’s.

Produced by Joaquin Pacheco with special guest Grammy-winning producer Robert Carranza
(Los Lobos, Ozomatli, Marilyn Manson, Jack Johnson) and Kennedy (BØRNS, 10000 Emerald
Pools) La Gran Civilización demonstrates not only Sanchez’s musical chops but her ability to
pull together teams of the best-in-the-business across genres from jazz to mariachi to cumbia to
pop and then blend her voice and creativity with theirs for songs that are far more than the sum
of their parts or their collaborators. In La Gran Civilización Sanchez is not only an artist but a
meta-creator.

The album opens with the title song Gran Civilización pulsing with rhymes by MC Olmeca
weaving over and around Sanchez’s haunting chorus and reply verses, celebrating pride in the
storied ancestors of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans like Sanchez. The result grabs your gut as
well as your ears and makes you rock and think.

Sanchez moves onto Puerta Del Sol, a rich mariachi song of hope and inspiration for
immigrants, featuring Latin Grammy-Winning Flor De Toloache and produced by multi
Grammy-winning producer Robert Carranza. Sanchez’s voice blends with and emerges from the
guitarrón rhythm and mariachi trumpets and violins with an urgency and seriousness that says
“Now! is our time.”

But the music of Mexico is never far from love, which she presents to us in “Oidos” – featuring
Mexico City-based Madame Récamier, Alvaro Wonatox (Flor Amargo) and a Son Jarocho
musical arrangement performed by Sensacion Jarocha that showcases Sanchez’s romantic voice.
She follows the love song with the cumbia “Money Pa’la Fiesta” swinging us laughingly around
with a girl who just wants to have fun – on a tight budget.

The beat goes on but the fun is tempered with determination in “Imparable”, Sanchez’s
unstoppable fast-beat track of tireless fighting and wining, compressed into a Latin-rocking
anthem earworm worthy of constant replays.

Life has its inspirational downs as well as its inspired ups, and “No Siento Nada” tells us that
when a relationship is not working, we must embrace the self- realization that pain can bring,
along with the power inside to change it.

The next three songs on the album are also earworms, but they enter your brain through a
different puerta. – pop. “In Other Words” is an English language jazzy love song commissioned
as the title track to the feature-length romantic comedy In Other Words featuring La Voz USA
standout Raymundo. “Jive Talkin”, the Bee Gees’ Saturday Night Fever classic, which
Sanchez wrote the Spanish original for, is followed by ‘Mundo Juntos’, a bossa version of “In
Other Worlds”, to keep you swaying and smiling.

Sanchez wraps the album with two reflective, but very different songs: “Que Te Perdone Dios”
a passionate ranchera love song arranged by Mariachi Vargas legacy Pepe Martinez Jr. and
performed by LA’s all-female Mariachi Las Colibri; and the gentle “Sanando Heridas” a paean
to the child within that needs its wounds healed, featuring the incomparable world folk group
Cuñao.

Sanchez was born in Toluca, Mexico, and was only 4 years old when her parents brought her to
the US along with her sister. Her family’s immigrant experience was typical – working multiple
jobs to ensure their children thrived, an ethos seen every day in Latino neighborhoods. Music
came early to Sanchez, blossomed in high school when she got her first guitar, took music
classes, and joined a mariachi-oriented after school music program. By the time she entered
college, she was on her way, immersed in jazz, playing live at top clubs, and recording a jazz EP.
Since then she has won three Best Jazz Singer awards, appeared in the STARZ series Vida,
scored music for film, toured Mexico and the US, played in Iceland – and managed to graduate
from college with a degree in medieval music while releasing multiple albums and videos.

La Gran Civilización, set for release this Friday, is a musical tour de force of skill, talent, and
heart, but also an inspiration whose influence will be felt deeply in our generation. It firmly
positions Nancy Sanchez as a star – and unstoppable in any language.

La Gran Civilización was released Friday, May 22, distributed by ONErpm on all streaming and
download platforms
Nancy Sanchez: http://www.nancysanchezmusic.com/
Gran Civilización video: https://bit.ly/3g8vcJB
Nancy Sanchez is signed with Universal Music Publishing and ONErpm Records

Featured Artist of the Day: Camilla Nilsen

By Linda Garnett

Indie Music Women’s Featured Artist of the Day is…

Camilla Nilsen of Temperature Falls (@temperaturefalls)

Temperature Falls is a trip-hop/alternative rock duo from Oslo, Norway that blends influences including Bjork, Portishead, and Pearl Jam into a brilliantly atmospheric and original new sound. Comprised of vocalist/lyricist Camilla and multi-instrumentalist Ian J. Ward, Temperature Falls released its debut album, Temperature Falls, in 2019 as well as a single, a cover of the Deftones’ “Knife Party.” Zuzu’s Petals will be the first single from the upcoming EP.

Temperature Falls uses music to create moods and tangible feelings that resonate deeply with its listeners. The songs are contemporary and classic at once and instantly pull you into their deliciously hypnotic worlds. The project began with a chance meeting between Camilla and Ward that led the pair into Ward’s studio, where they discovered their magic. Having no choice but to continue, the two spent every possible moment of 2018 creating Temperature Falls. The music mixes the glorious euphoria of trip-hop with the backbone of alternative rock in a way that compels you to keep listening.

Camilla and Ward make this music because it’s what they feel and love. Both are motivated artists with uncompromising creative visions. Together, they’re fire and ice at the same time and, as Temperatures Falls, they are releasing some of the most important and vital music of modern times. Anyone seeking new music with both headspace and energy needs to start listening.

Camilla shared with me what it means personally to her to be an indie music woman artist: “In its basic fashion me for me it just feels empowering – I can tap into my emotions and really show these freely in my music. As an independent artist, the freedom in the music and lyrics, in terms of style is so liberating to me. Hopefully, that comes across with the songs and people can feel this emotion through the music and lyrics.”

You can hear Temperature Falls single, “1-2-3” on the Indie Music Women’s Spotify Playlist.

The Success of Binx: A Case Study in Hard Work, Persistence, and Talent

By Linda Garnett

Pop singer Binx in black evening dress — **Binx**

The success of Binx: a case study in hard work, persistence, and talent.

Patrick O’Heffernan

It is no secret that hard work and persistence are just as important as talent for success in today’s music world. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of very talented singers, musicians, and bands playing weekends in small clubs all over the country while they focus on their jobs during the week. Some, like the Wohl Band from Guadalajara, will succeed beyond weekend gigs, but most of them will move on in their profession and music will remain a weekend pleasure for them and their audiences.

The artists that succeed are the ones who are not only superbly talented but spend almost every waking moment (and some sleeping moments) writing, arranging, playing, performing and recording music. They find a day job in the music industry that lets them learn, connect, and grow musically as well as pay the bills. They work to take – or create – every opportunity to introduce new audiences to their talent, and to hone and grow their art and expand their fan base as they move from small clubs to bigger venues. Just as important, they collect around themselves others from the music world – artists, executives, writers, producers, videographers – who support them and help fuel their careers. While this doesn’t guarantee success, in my experience it is a requirement for it.

The pop singer Binx is a case study in the hard work-persistence-talent success formula. She does all of this in spades and it is paying off for her – her success rocket has taken off.

I have followed Binx for four years and she is the hardest working artist I have known in that time. A songwriter, a model, an online media personality, a multimedia expert, a record producer, and a great pop singer, Binx and her onstage persona The African Bee never seem to stop. She killed with her breakout song, “Headlights” from her debut album Buzzed. Her second song from the album, “Shockwaves”, moved the bar up even higher with over 40,000 streams on Spotify. Her newest release, “DJ Space”, moves the bar literally into orbit with 20,000 streams in two weeks. Her YouTube Channel covers costume and makeup (she is an expert from her modeling days), her music, and just life- and is followed by legions.

Binx labors tirelessly to ensure that her music and face and voice are everywhere – Facebook, Twitter, Bandcamp, TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, etc. – a feat that takes both long hours and skill for her to manage. She shoots and edits video, creates online memes and art, posts and aligns her messages across multiple platforms in real-time, while writing, producing, recording and performing music.

Binx is not only hardworking and never-give-up persistent, but she is also strategic. She quickly saw that releasing songs one at a time leading up to an album drop was the best way to build an audience (and pre-orders) in these days of tough competition and squishy attention spans. For her latest album, Bee From Space, released Thursday night, she led with 6 weeks of singles, each dropped individually on a Thursday night with a full-on PR effort, reviews, performances, and celebrations. She calibrated the campaigns herself to not overload fans with content, but keep top-of-mind awareness and a desire for more. It worked, given the streaming numbers so far.

But her success rocket has launched not just because of her marketing strategy and hard work; talent has a whole lot to do with it. Binx’s music and her performances stand out. With hints of early Lady Gaga and a touch of Cardi B. Binx delivers pop music that has depth underneath the froth and complexity behind the drum machines. Combined with her peculiar, but precisely controlled voice, Binx stands apart from most pop singers and “girls with guitars” (Binx plays one and several other instruments). She is in a separate part of the music spectrum that is highly visible, but attainable by only a few. Part of it is her South African accent and perspective from living internationally. Part of it is a very dark period of her life in New York always swimming below the surface of her sunny songwriting, Part of it is her runway model looks and terrific talent for design. And part of it is that she is a very, very nice person – easy to know and easy to work with.

But for Binx, the whole is always more than the sum of the parts. From the sophisticated layered details of “Space DJ” to the impact of her swirling costume changes on stage, everything she does — writes, sings and posts — fits together to create an entertainment gestalt that is a perfect case study of music success.

Patrick O’Heffernan Interviews BINX at the Natural History Museum

BINX – Space DJ (Official Music Video)

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