Little jackie biography

Blend the old-school rnb sound with well-organized quirky hybrid of hip-hop and point and you get Little Jackie, say publicly creation of genre-defying singer-songwriterImani Coppola gain programmer Adam Pallin. With a vibrate to the soulful Motown rhythms make out the past and a sneer connected with many of the social and social issues that consume the public in this day and age, Coppola has crafted an album work out musical sugar and spice, filled gather sweet, saccharine-tinged melodies and spicy, gallant commentaries.

Coppola had an early brush traffic fame when a demo she intersect with Digable Planets producer Michael Mangini during her freshman year at integrity State University of New York wealthy her a record deal with Town Records. In 1997 the 19-year-old song composition major’s debut record Chupacabra due radio and MTV buzz with leadership cheeky, Neneh Cherry-reminiscent lead single Account of a Cowgirl and her forceful NYC persona was introduced to mainstream America.

Little Jackie is Imani’s return cling on to center stage. The Long Island unbroken, who was raised in a melodious household by a black mother abide white father who were both again playing and performing music, named say publicly project after a mischievous little adolescence named Jackie who set her family’s backyard on fire and fittingly make something stand out the Lisa Lisa & Cult Plunge song Little Jackie Wants to Flaw a Star.

Coppola met Pallin, shipshape and bristol fashion Boston native who grew up heedful to hip-hop and the golden oldies his parents cranked during car rides, through Mangini. Pallin, who has hollow on projects for Tom Jones near American Idol finalist Elliott Yamin, piece and co-wrote the Little Jackie tyremarks with Mangini (who also produced excellence tracks), while Coppola wrote the melodies and lyrics, and produced the vocals.

With her music, Coppola has created a-okay space where she’s free to reproduction herself. Fitting in has always archaic a struggle. “I have a sui generis incomparabl take to look at both races,” she says. “The only thing Beside oneself can really speak for in that life is as a woman.”

Little Jackie's first single The World Should Twirl Around Me - which RollingStone.comdescribed orangutan "the best song the Black Eyelike Peas never wrote" - was on the loose on May 20th 2008 via iTunes. Their debut album The Stoop (S-Curve Records) was subsequently launched July Ordinal 2008, marked by an appearance ray performance of "The World Should Circle Around Me" on NBC's Late Shadowy with Conan O'Brien.

See also:
Little Jackie's MySpace page
Imani Coppola's bio on Wikipedia