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Darnell Levine

Nashville, Tennessee
28 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Lyricist, Producer
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"They say the hardest way to win, is when you play with the cards you've been given."
LEVEL
professional
GENRES
Jazz, Soul, Alternative Pop
PUBLISHING COMPANY
Mama Modestine's Music, I own my own publishing
Contact
Management: Currently None
Publishing: Mama Modestine's Music
Label: Currently No Label
Booking: darnell@darnelllevine.com
Administrative: info@darnelllevine.com
P.R.O.
BMI
INSTRUMENTS
piano / vocals
DAY JOB
Singer/Songwriter Full-Time
I AM INTERESTED IN
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a publishing deal
I WRITE:
For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music
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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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Spoon: The Power of Transference

In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over 15 years, the Austin, Texas band have survived lineup shuffles and early record label neglect, finding their signature style with 2001’s Girls Can Tell and quietly building one of the strongest rock catalogs of the decade.

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