YETUNDE in Blues & Soul

Blues and Soul have just published a great in-depth interview with our Yetunde, talking about the new album Favourite Things, and the single Mr GQ.

Says Yetunde to scribe Pete Lewis on writing her lyrics:

“Lyrically I’m really just playing around with emotions and situations and experiences – and basically just trying to put it all into a format where someone can maybe listen to it and think ‘Yeah, that happened to me as well actually!’… Plus there’s a moral consciousness on there that I think can appeal to people across-the-board. In that older people will listen and be like ‘Yeah, this is what life is really like’. While the younger ones will listen and realise that, while you can have fun, at the same time you have to have BOUNDARIES… So yeah, on some of the songs there are messages. Because I’m basically looking to put something out there that can be timeless.”

Read the interview in full here:

http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/649/yetunde_time_to_shine/

YETUNDE album review!

Check out a great new album review from our girl Yetunde just-published online on soulandjazzfunk.com!

Read the review here:

http://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/reviews.html

The album Favourite Things is out now.

Amazon links here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Favourite-Things-Yetunde-Johnson/dp/B004LXM5F0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299572911&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Favourite-Things/dp/B004JCNUDE/ref=mb_oe_o

20 questions for YETUNDE!

Check out this great new interview with Yetunde published in the new issue of Echoes.

Love it!

Yetunde’s album Favourite Things is released March 7th.

YETUNDE interview!

There’s a great new interview with Yetunde Johnson in the latest issue of Flavour magazine, talking about the album Favourite Things, and the single I’m The One You Want.

Says Yetunde:

“I guess it’s rooted in gospel because that’s my background,. But I love soul, jazz, classical and rock. So I’d like to think my sound is all about my emotion. That goes for my lyrical content to because I have written or co written every track on the album!”

Read the interview in full here:

http://www.flavourmag.co.uk/yetunde-johnson-a-brand-spanking-new-favourite-thing/

YETUNDE JOHNSON hits the road!

One of our hot tips for 2010, Yetunde Johnson is hitting the road at the end of the month to preview cuts from her upcoming debut album Favourite Things.

Dates as below:

30 Mar 2010 19:00	Central Station	Wales
31 Mar 2010 19:30	Pozition	Hull
1 Apr 2010 20:30	Re-Play	Stockport
2 Apr 2010 0:30	Coast to Coast	Doncaster
3 Apr 2010 0:30	Escape	Kingston upon Thames
5 Apr 2010 1:00	Inside Out	Darlington.
7 Apr 2010 20:30	Rois	Leeds
9 Apr 2010 23:30	28th Street event	Brighton
28 Apr 2010 0:00	The University of Surrey	Surrey
28 May 2010 20:30	Aldershoot	Hampshire

This is great opportunity to catch Yetunde ahead of the pack … and to get you in the mood, here’s a clip of one of favourite cuts, Mould Breaker, live!

Killer vocals, right?

As ever, more info on Yetunde’s MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/yetundejohnsonmusic

See you at the shows!

YETUNDE JOHNSON live!

Ok, so earlier this week we introduced you to Yetunde Johnson…

… now comes this excellent live clip of the title cut of her forthcoming album Favourite Things!

This a perfectly stripped-back performance, which allows you to hear both the brilliance of Yetunde’s vocals and her songwriting!

Check it out here:

Like we said, one to watch in 2010…

Introducing YETUNDE JOHNSON

More new talent for us at Soul Food to shout about!

Yetunde Johnson is a singer songwriter from North London, and based on the strength of her debut album Favourite Things, we predict great things for her in 2010.

Yetunde was born in Lagos, Nigeria and moved to the UK with her parents when she was five years old. Just two years later Yetunde was singing at her local church every weekend and soon started touring with a youth choir started by her father at various gospel concerts around the UK.

By her late teens it was clear Yetunde had come into her own as a solo artist with her definitive voice and style of writing. She began recording demos in a friends make shift studio which were produced by her brothers production company Niimp (Nothing is impossible) records and spent time perfecting her craft by writing and recording weekly.

During this time she worked with different UK artists such as Loudmouth, Offkey, Yolanda Brown, comedian Eddie Kadi, and shared the stage with gospel legend Ron Kenoly.

By the summer of 2008 Yetunde signed up with Real Music and Management a week before her 23rd birthday. A few months after she was signed to Green Garden Records as their first female solo artist and began recording her debut album in both the US and UK.

Alongside the likes of Anita Mcloud, Chris Arms, Benny Bizzie and Danny Schogger, Yetunde wrote and co-wrote her whole album and also collaborated with label mate Haydon Eshun on a track.

She describes the songs on her album as an outlet of emotions which draw from personal experiences, conversations and humorous situations witnessed in every day life.

We’ve been rinsing the album sampler non-stop since it landed. Cuts such as Sweet Sexy Thing, I’m The One You Want, and Mould Breaker are firin’ and really hit the spot! There’s also a beautiful cover of the classic Thom Bell/Linda Creed-composed You Are Everything, which is both sweetly soulful, and really showcases her vocal chops! 

Slated to be released early 2010, Yetunde’s album titled Favourite Things will definitely be a refreshing edition to the music scene, UK and beyond.

More info on Yetunde at her brilliant MySpace page:

http://soulfoodpr.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

Also check the Green Garden label site:

http://greengardenrecords.com/