India.Arie

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India.Arie, born India Arie Simpson on October 3, 1975, in Denver, Colorado.
She absorbed musical skill early in life, encouraged by both parents: her mother, Joyce, herself a former singer, and now India Arie’s stylist; and her father, basketball star Ralph Simpson. She had taken up a succession of musical instruments throughout her schooling in Denver, Colorado, but her interest in the guitar while attending the Savannah College of Art and Design led to a personal revelation about songwriting and performing. “When I started tapping into my own sensitivity, I started to understand people better. It was a direct result of writing songs,” she said at the press release of her debut album, Acoustic Soul.

Co-founding the Atlanta-based independent music collective GroovmentEarthseed (Groovement was the collective artists’ name and Earthshare was their independent label name), her one-song turn on a locally released compilation led to a second-stage gig at the Lilith Fair. Their Universal Records/Motown music scout spotted her and made an introduction to Motown CEO Kedar Massenburg. Sidestepping all the devices of flavor-of-the-month record-making, Acoustic Soul acquainted listeners with a brave and eloquent new voice, drawing an uncommonly broad swath of listeners from hip-hop, the so called neo-soul, blues, folk, and classic troubadour-style singer/songwriting, all at once. The album, released in 2001, debuted at number ten on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart and number three on the R&B album chart. Within months, without the concentrated radio play that typically powers pop and rap albums, Acoustic Soul was certified double-platinum.

Acoustic Soul
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Voyage To India
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Testimony: Vol. 1 Life & Relationship
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Acoustic Soul...A Change Gonna Come
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Top Tracks

1	The Heart Of The Matter full track	1,213
2	Video full track	1,109
3	Ready for Love full track	955
4	Brown Skin full track	862
5	Promises full track	631
6	Beautiful full track	583
7	Interlude full track	477
8	Back to the Middle full track	475
9	Intro full track	460
10	Nature full track	442
11	Simple full track	436
12	I See God in You full track	366
13	Outro full track	363
14	Part of My Life full track	344
15	Can I Walk With You full track	332

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blabbers wrote:
4 hours ago

:D :D :D anyways, i'm surprised to see that I'm Not My Hair not up there.

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pterodata wrote:
yesterday morning

welcome to http://www.lastfm.com.br/music/Pterodata that could be in this relax clever radio

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JNellz wrote:
Thursday evening

she's WORKINONIT.

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Snipes_ wrote:
Thursday morning

where's testemony vol. 2? cant wait to hear it!!!

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DjarumGD wrote:
Monday afternoon

below is the movie... form polish got talent ... exemplary execution :)

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laksis wrote:
Sunday afternoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mLhJOT6GQk

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blackambition wrote:
last week

AMAZING Artist... TRULY TRULY TRULY UNDERATED!!!!!

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CzerwonaRoza wrote:
last month

Hi everyone :) May I ask You a favour? I'm making a surprise for my Girlfriend's birthday and I need photos from different towns...If you could help me with that...I would like you to get a sheet of paper (A4 format), write "Ewa, Piotrek Cię Kocha" (that means "Eve, Peter Loves You") and find one, beautiful, romantic place in Your town and took a photo of Yourself holding the sheet of paper in Your hands :) I want to give Her an album with these photos... If you decide to help me with that then send the photo on my mail adress: czerwonaroza@windowslive.com Greets :)

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adomay wrote:
last month

Join the Danja group!

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dwanimen wrote:
last month

sweet. she's also a good live performer.

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waz68 wrote:
last month

wow awesome .....love it

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deboradfreitas wrote:
last month

Perfeita!!

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wendell3 wrote:
last month

Just beautiful.

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JNellz wrote:
last month

http://soulmusic4u.blogspot.com/

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hertaintedlips wrote:
last month

<3

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maryleen74 wrote:
last month

Love "Brown Skin". So sexy!

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nigelwal wrote:
last month

This is the first time i've listened to India, just listened to Ready for Love, it blew me away. Where have you been all my life!!!

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vicglezmi wrote:
August 2008

i like too much "get it together" its a beautiful song

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Bluetime1420 wrote:
August 2008

Video is one of my all time favorite songs. Truly anthemic.

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carmellie wrote:
August 2008

ugh. I LOVE her. Her songs have helped me through a LOT. She's part of my "Heal Playlist" :) I recommend her to everyone.

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