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Columbia Records releases ‘Love
Travels' by singer/songwriter Angel Taylor
ASCAP Pop Music Awards honors Ann and Nancy
of Heart and Wyclef Jean: and, Film director Tim Greene shares his knowledge with kids across the country By Eunice Moseley
Columbia Records releases 'Love Travels' by singer/songwriter Angel Taylor
 Columbia Records' newest Pop sensation, Angel Taylor, is promoting her debut album "Love Travels" and
will arrive in Baltimore Sunday, May 17, 2009 at the Sonar (407 E. Saratoga Street). The album is something new, though clearly
Pop. Angel brings Pop music back down to earth with her laid-back personality.
"My mom named me,"
Angel said of her name when asked of its meaning. "I grew up listening to Christian music."
Taylor said when
she did listen to secular music which would normally be the Temptations or Aretha Franklin.
"I started
singing in church. In the fifth grade I was in a Christian concert. I got serious at 14, 15 or 16. People started noticing
my voice and said ‘get that voice on a CD!' I met a producer and said ‘I just want to get my music on a CD"...and
he signed me. We flew to New York...it took me four months (to get signed to Aware/Columbia Records)."
The music Angel is talking about you will find on her debut CD "Love Travels," a melting pot of Pop style songs
that are well written, as if from a storyteller. Taylor wants the listeners to come away knowing she is just a normal person
and not some performer that is untouchable.
"Anything is possible," she said for those wanting
that one in a million record deal. "Look at my situation...when you are not looking for something it happens."
My favorite songs on the "Love Travels" debut CD of Angel Taylor are "Maple Tree," the
feel takes me back to my days as a child on my grandfathers farm; "Make Me Believe," a true Pop classic; "Too
Good for Words," "Don't Forget Me in Time," and "Chai Tea Latte," named after her favorite Starbucks
drink. The album was produced Mikal Blue.
Learn more about Angel Taylor at www.AngelTaylorOnline.com.
ASCAP Pop Music Awards honors Ann and Nancy of Heart and Wyclef Jean
 The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) paid honor to the achievements of Ann and Nancy
of Heart with the ASCAP Founders Award and Wyclef Jean with the ASCAP Creative Voice Award at their recent 26th Annual ASCAP
Pop Music Awards in Hollywood. Performers included Jesse McCartney, OneRepublic, Natasha Bedingfield, Mikal Blue, Jason Reeves
and Kara DioGuardi.
While on the red carpet I asked Ann and Nancy of Heart how their classic songs ("Crazy
on You," "Magic Man," "Heartless," and "Tell It Like It Is") came to them and they pointed
out, "We do not have a set formula for songwriting. The song tells us what it wants to do. It's hard to pin-point. Sometimes
it comes in all different ways. You may dream of a melody that just flies from the air or you may sit down and try to write
a song or you may have a nip of an idea or you may have a little bit of lyrics that roll into a song."
Along with Ann and Nancy others on the red carpet included the other honoree Wyclef, who has also blessed the music industry
with his song creations that include "No Woman, No Cry," "Fu-Gee-La," "Killing Me Softly," and
"Ready or Not," Quincy Jones and Fergie.
Many songwriters and composers were there on the carpet showing off
their blue and red ribbon ASCAP medallions which included James Fauntleroy, Jr. ("No Air" by Jordan Sparks featuring
Chris Brown); producer/songwriter Just Blaze ("Live Your Life" by TI featuring Rhianna); Brian Kennedy ("Disturbia"
by Rhianna and "If This is Love" with Jennifer Hudson), and songwriter Harvey Mason ("No Air" by Jordan
Sparks featuring Chris Brown").
Stargate received the Songwriter of the Year Award, Jesse McCartney
and Ryan Tedder received the Song of the Year Award for "Bleeding Love;" and EMI Publishing and Sony/ATV Music Publishing
tied for the Publisher of the Year Awards.
For more on the ASCAP Pop Music Awards log onto www.ASCAP.com.
If you want to see video clips of my red carpet interviews just log onto www.ThePulseofEntertainment.com/network or www.youtube.com/FreelanceAssocaites.
Film director Tim Greene's campaign to educate young filmmakers
on affordable filmmaking brings him back to Los Angeles
 Independent film maker Tim Greene (TimGreeneFilms.com) has spent the last five years traveling the country speaking
on panels and at events before audiences of the small to the large speaking on what a director looks for in an actor and how
you can become an independent filmmaker. He will be doing a 50 city tour speaking on film making this summer.
"I am promoting ...Lil' Homies (film DVD) which I ‘m turning into a franchise like Disney. When you think of Lil'
Homies and Tim Greene you are going to think family, but it takes branding, you know, and I don't have 30 million dollars
so I have to go around the country myself and meet my audience," Tim points out.
The workshops Tim
participates in are normally free. He has directed and filmed at least three films to DVD. One of his three stops in Los Angeles
that day was hosted by Living Advantage (www.LivingAdvantageInc.org).
"Living Advantage they have
an organization, non-profit, for foster kids, they have like 400 kids," Greene said.
Before coming
to L.A. he was in New York at the Hilton Hotel before an audience of 2,000 people, and the Film Archives at Tribecca. After
those three workshops in Los Angeles he traveled to the Carolinas, back to L.A. and then to Philly (his hometown).
Tim
started in radio in Philadelphia and he went on to write 17 singles, a couple of Bill Board top ten hits, and he was the former
managed/agent of the famous "Rapping Granny."
"I got her from off the street in Compton into
network television. I got her 25 commercials, 17 feature films, she was in Everybody Hates Chris, she was on the Steve Harvey
show - the landlord, a three year deal with Fox Television. I use to be her manager/agent, but right now I wake up and just
enjoying life every day," Tim said.
Tim wants up-and-coming film makers to know that they should always
turn a negative into a positive if they want to make it.
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