http://www.pushinthebay.com - PTBTV aka Pushin' The Bay EXCLUSIVE! In this exclusive / raw video, Goapele performs her hit single CLOSER. Filmed on September 24th, 2008, PTBTV captures Mac Mall, J-Diggs and Ray Luv groovin' to the sounds of Goapele, a definite Pushin' The Bay TV exclusive! The video even captures Goapele letting Emcee T sing along; Emcee T, we love ya but stick to PTBTV NOT singing!
This even was an END OF SUMMER CELEBRATION '08 as A SPECIAL BENEFIT FOR "ROB REYES" OF M1 PROMO. Thanks to M1 PROMO for allowing PTBTV access.
Goapele was born in Berkeley, California, to an Israeli Jewish mother and a Black South African father who was a political exile. They married in Nairobi, Kenya. She grew up listening to Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Zulu Spears, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Billie Holiday. Goapele attended the Berkeley Arts Magnet School in Berkeley, California. During these years, she joined several groups that fought racism and sexism. She also sang in the Oakland Youth Chorus and joined a group called Vocal Motion. After graduating from high school, Goapele attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where she studied music theory.
In 2001, after self-releasing her debut album, Closer, her family founded Skyblaze Recordings to oversee her musical career. In 2002, she released her first nationally distributed album, Even Closer, featuring the single "Closer," through Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings. "Closer" was also featured on the soundtrack to the 2003 movie Honey. In 2004, Columbia/SME Records picked up Skyblaze Recordings for worldwide distribution and rereleased the album with additional tracks. She co-wrote and co-produced the entire album, which is a mixture of neo-soul, trip-hop, lieder, and jazz. She also toured North America with the band Spearhead. It sold more than 150,000 units and climbed into the Top 100, reaching #63 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Her sophomore album, Change it All, featuring the single "First Love" and "Love Me Right" was released December 2005. Goapele appeared on Soul Train to promote the album in May 2006; as it stands, she is the last artist to appear on the program, as immediately after the episode aired, the show went into reruns. She has also appeared on The Orlando Jones Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and FOX Good Day, Atlanta. Her first three releases have garnered praise from the likes of magazine such as Rolling Stone, Nylon, Interview, Marie Claire, Billboard, Essence, and Vibe. She has appeared on the covers of local Bay Area publications San Francisco Magazine, SF Bay Guardian, Mugshot, and City Flight, She was named the number-5 artist to watch in the July 2003 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, made the countdown on MTVs Top 10 Artists to Watch, and collaborated with ALDO Shoes advertisement campaign in its fight against HIV/AIDS, which featured artists such as Avril Lavigne, Ludacris, Dave Navarro, Charlize Therron, Pink, Eve, Rosario Dawson, Eva Mendes, Bow Wow, Ziggy Marley, and Kelly Rowland.
Goapele is planning to release a live DVD, taped at the Great American Music Hall, which was a French restaurant, a legendary jazz club after World War II, and a contemporary nightspot for Bay Area elite that has showcased luminaries such as Duke Ellington, the Grateful Dead, and Robin Williams. The DVD will spotlight Goapele alongside her live band, "The Heat," in a 10-song performance including original tracks and her rendition of classics.
She is currently in the studio recording songs for her third album (as yet untitled) with producers including Krucial Keys, Drumma Boy, and Bedrock. One of the newest songs released is entitled "Don't Be Shy" and was produced by Don Lawrence.
On September 14, 2006, the California-based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights honored Goapele with its first ever Human Rights Cultural Hero Award during the Centers 10th Anniversary Celebration, titled Tribute to a Dream.
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