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an InFusion of Pop, Rock & Eastern overtones.. the mesmerising singer Naga Valli likes to call her music ‘Eastern Soul’

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SKYROCKET! is perhaps the most wickedly original party band to emerge from any music scene, let alone a city like Austin where original music rules. Two things make SKYROCKET! stand out: 1) The players. All of them are recording artists in their own right. Maybe you’ve seen them before, on tour, on TV, or performing around Austin. 2) The songs. It all started when this handful of the city’s most successful and well-loved songwriters discovered a common passion for ’70s “solid-gold” music: Disco, glam rock, soft rock and soul one-hit wonders. One forgotten hit led to another, then the ’70s led to the ’80s, and the song list grew, cherry-picked for the ones most likely to get screams of sudden recognition from the audience. Calling themselves The K-TEL Hit Machine, They caught on quickly as one of the freshest, funnest dance bands around. By the end of 2005, they had even charmed city’s impossible-to-charm music critics at the Austin Chronicle’s holiday bash, and the band’s popularity SKYROCKETed from there, hence the name change.

Native Nigerian Kalu James may not look the part of an accomplished folk rock singer songwriter, but the release of his third CD, “Live” (which received a 3 out of 5 stars from the Austin Chronicle) and a Day (June 11th) named after him in the “Live Music Capital of the World” Austin,tx proves otherwise. Born in Nigeria and raised in Republic of Benin , Kalu fluently speaks three languages – French, English and Igbo (native language ). Although he had sung in the choir since age 9, it wasn’t until he moved far from home to New York State in 2001 to study computer technology that he discovered his gift for songwriting.

Kalu says, “Music is a journal for me. It’s a way for me to express and chronicle my days. Some people have diaries. I have music.Instead of defining myself by putting my music in a box called a ‘genre,’ I consider it ‘feel’ music. I want to connect to people by letting them know howI feel. Maybe they feel that way, too, and it creates a link between us.”