Multinational Artist Charts With First Single Release
by Cindy Beth Gordon,

The story of performing songwriter Ann-Marita's life unfolds over four countries on three different continents. Growing up on a farm in the Norwegian mountains, she was as country as country gets. But with a great love of music and the desire to create some herself, and without any role models closer than the stars of her parents' record collection: Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, Lynn Anderson, and of course ­ Kenny, she had to use her imagination. She taught herself to play air piano on a peculiarly shaped rock on her family's property before she eventually graduated onto an antique church organ with pump pedals-the only musical instrument she had access to.

By Mark Kirby, The best thing about singer songwriters who work the margins of the anti folk and indie rock worlds are that the voice and vision of the artist can dress up in different styles and dance about various genres of music, confounding the strait jacketed ears and identities of marketing people and the Geeks whose tastes conform to their niches. Mariana Bell is one of these artists and, goddamn it, we need more of them. On her 5-song self titled EP, she weaves together musical elements as similar and diverse as indie rock, anti folk, and whatever you call the electro-tinged music that Fiona Apple and Bjork create.

The MusicDish Network announced the upcoming addition of new music videos from R&B singer Kieran and Pop artist Jann Klose to its peer-to-peer viral distribution campaign.

UK-based Nigerian born musician Yanju has released his politically controversial music video IWA on major peer-to-peer networks. The video, encoded with INTENT Media's proprietary technology, will be pushed through search placements in major file sharing applications such as Morpheus, Kazaa and eDonkey. The campaign will also be supported by online marketing campaign conducted by the MusicDish Network, which has already garnered over 1 million downloads for Ms. Cherry's music video "It's Whatever".

Award-winning composer, songwriter, performer Jennifer Cutting recently completed work on her latest song "Fall Leaves Fall" with producer Blake Althen at the Human Factor studio. The song will be the lead cut on the Hungry For Music Christmas compilation "Holiday Feast", which provides funding for the organization's programs for inner city children.