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Nenna Yvonne attended the 53rd Annual Grammy awards this year
She was also placed in the 53rd Grammy Edition Billboard magazine and has been acknowledged as a 'New comer to watch' by VP editor in Chief Bill Werde
Her music has been heard by millions on the hit MTV reality show 'The City' and VH1 has also licensed her music
Nenna Yvonne has a major licensing contract through Viacom/MTV
Her music is about to hit all major Hit music stations across the country
Featured on numerous online blog sites http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/yvonne_nenna/artist.jhtml
She's in the studio with Far East Movement producer Yultron for the remix to Go Around
Each month she plays about 5 major shows and the turn out is approximately 1,000 to 1,500 people
Check her out at www.NennaYvonne.com
- Nenna Yvonne at The 53rd Annual Grammys
Nenna Yvonne attended the 53rd Annual Grammy awards this year
She was also placed in the 53rd Grammy Edition Billboard magazine and has been acknowledged as a 'New comer to watch' by VP editor in Chief Bill Werde
Her music has been heard by millions on the hit MTV reality show 'The City' and VH1 has also licensed her music
Nenna Yvonne has a major licensing contract through Viacom/MTV
Her music is about to hit all major Hit music stations across the country
Featured on numerous online blog sites http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/yvonne_nenna/artist.jhtml
She's in the studio with Far East Movement producer Yultron for the remix to Go Around
Each month she plays about 5 major shows and the turn out is approximately 1,000 to 1,500 people
Check her out at www.NennaYvonne.com
- Nenna Yvonne at The 53rd Annual Grammys
Nenna Yvonne attended the 53rd Annual Grammy awards this year
She was also placed in the 53rd Grammy Edition Billboard magazine and has been acknowledged as a 'New comer to watch' by VP editor in Chief Bill Werde
Her music has been heard by millions on the hit MTV reality show 'The City' and VH1 has also licensed her music
Nenna Yvonne has a major licensing contract through Viacom/MTV
Her music is about to hit all major Hit music stations across the country
Featured on numerous online blog sites http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/yvonne_nenna/artist.jhtml
She's in the studio with Far East Movement producer Yultron for the remix to Go Around
Each month she plays about 5 major shows and the turn out is approximately 1,000 to 1,500 people
Check her out at www.NennaYvonne.com
- Nenna Yvonne at The 53rd Annual Grammys
Nenna Yvonne attended the 53rd Annual Grammy awards this year
She was also placed in the 53rd Grammy Edition Billboard magazine and has been acknowledged as a 'New comer to watch' by VP editor in Chief Bill Werde
Her music has been heard by millions on the hit MTV reality show 'The City' and VH1 has also licensed her music
Nenna Yvonne has a major licensing contract through Viacom/MTV
Her music is about to hit all major Hit music stations across the country
Featured on numerous online blog sites http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/yvonne_nenna/artist.jhtml
She's in the studio with Far East Movement producer Yultron for the remix to Go Around
Each month she plays about 5 major shows and the turn out is approximately 1,000 to 1,500 people
Check her out at www.NennaYvonne.com
- Nenna Yvonne at The 53rd Annual Grammys
Nenna Yvonne attended the 53rd Annual Grammy awards this year
She was also placed in the 53rd Grammy Edition Billboard magazine and has been acknowledged as a 'New comer to watch' by VP editor in Chief Bill Werde
Her music has been heard by millions on the hit MTV reality show 'The City' and VH1 has also licensed her music
Nenna Yvonne has a major licensing contract through Viacom/MTV
Her music is about to hit all major Hit music stations across the country
Featured on numerous online blog sites http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/yvonne_nenna/artist.jhtml
She's in the studio with Far East Movement producer Yultron for the remix to Go Around
Each month she plays about 5 major shows and the turn out is approximately 1,000 to 1,500 people
Check her out at www.NennaYvonne.com
- Nenna Yvonne at The 53rd Annual Grammys
Nenna Yvonne attended the 53rd Annual Grammy awards this year
She was also placed in the 53rd Grammy Edition Billboard magazine and has been acknowledged as a 'New comer to watch' by VP editor in Chief Bill Werde
Her music has been heard by millions on the hit MTV reality show 'The City' and VH1 has also licensed her music
Nenna Yvonne has a major licensing contract through Viacom/MTV
Her music is about to hit all major Hit music stations across the country
Featured on numerous online blog sites http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/yvonne_nenna/artist.jhtml
She's in the studio with Far East Movement producer Yultron for the remix to Go Around
Each month she plays about 5 major shows and the turn out is approximately 1,000 to 1,500 people
Check her out at www.NennaYvonne.com
- Nenna Yvonne at The 53rd Annual Grammys
Will be posted on the 30th of February on www.Twitter.com/NennaYvonne - Billboard Magazine
Nenna Yvonne featured on MTV - MTV
Nenna Yvonne featured on Tunecore - Tunecore
Kings of A and R have featured Nenna Yvonne 3 times!! - Kings Of A and R
Discography
Model Citizen
Go Around - Air play
Some Girls - Air play/Z100
Go Around Remix Featuring Yultron - Airplay
Photos
Bio
It may be rude to stop and stare, but Nenna Yvonne leaves you no choice. At age 21, the Nigerian-born/New York-raised pop princess already has the talent, pedigree, looks and desire to reign over the charts indefinitely. Her latest single, Go Arounda sultry electropop rave-upboasts hundreds of thousands of spins on the internet. Three minutes of succulent ear candy, its not only the product of a diverse musical upbringing, but a harbinger of more cutting-edge crowd pleasers to come.
Yvonne has known her calling since childhood, but pop stardom was far from predestined. The eldest daughter of four to loving but businesslike Nigerian immigrants, she was expected to set an example and pursue law or medicine. Instead, at age 14, she matter-of-factly informed her family that she would be making the four-hour daily commute from Long Island to the prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, which counts Nicki Minaj and Kelis among their hit-making alumni.
I think its hereditary, Yvonne laughs about her ambition. I was pushing for this since I was a little girl. Im stubborn in a sense, and Im not the kind of person thats going to look back and regret that I didnt try something.
The risk paid off all right. While enrolled at LaGuardia, Yvonne earned the distinct honor of performing with classmates in a Carnegie Hall recital. Theres people that work their whole life to get that opportunityviolinists, cellists, opera singers, she marvels. At age 16, to sing there with a bunch of your friends its almost mind-blowing.
Although the precocious Yvonne studied classical, chamber music, sight-singing, gospel and jazz, she was quick to embrace modern songwriting sensibilities. At 17 she began experimenting with diary entries that would shape her as a lyricist, then cleverly finagled her finances into purchasing her own studio equipment. One such spending spree at New Yorks Sam Ash Music Store got her in touch with up-and-coming producer/eventual mentor Daniel DTox Wisniewski.
When I started out writing songs and figuring out my own voice, I didnt think this was the direction Id take, Yvonne admits. I started working with DToxhes like my bestfriendand he listened to me a lot. He sort of put me through vocal boot camp, where he tried to combine a lot of the things I learned from high school with stuff thats current and popular.
If cult indie EP Model Citizen and the increasingly ubiquitous Go Around are any indication, mission accomplished.
I feel like there should be emotion and soul in music. Its kind of like being on a rollercoasteryou get people excited on the first couple of lines, then you get them really excited because now this voice is in your face. Some people take that approach to life.
CONCERTS
Club Greenhouse NYC
Delancey Bar
Club One (Baltimore, MD)
MODEL CITIZEN RELEASE PARTY @ KATRA
Five Town Community Center
The Archway [Under The Manhattan Bridge]
Harlem School of The Arts
Best Buy in Store Show
Essex County College
Le Caire Lounge
Krystals
Pyramid
Cafe Largo
Layla NYC
Bronx Community Event
Club Karma
Club Pyramid
Club Esko
Berkeley College
GuestHouse
Club Plum
Moomia Lounge
The Penn Hotel
Times Square Arts Center
Ecco Lounge - LA
The Roxy
The Key Club - LA
Bardot-LA
The Terrace - Pasadena CA
Play House-LA
Green House- NY
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