Danielia Cotton
Fri, Sep 15, 4:40 PM BMI Stage Stage
As one of only seven black children in rural Hopewell, N.J., Danielia Cotton grew up an outsider. So like many an outsider before her but maybe not so many young black girls she turned to rock n roll. After she got her guitar and vocal chops together the former self-taught, the latter no doubt picked up in part from her jazz-singer mother Cotton moved to New York City, began gigging at intimate rooms like the Bitter End, and released her self-titled debut EP in 2004. But it was the following years Small White Town album that launched her career in full, with Philadelphias WXPN picking her as one of its artists to watch in 2005 and putting her song Its Only Life into heavy rotation. With a powerful, bluesy voice reminiscent of Janis Joplin and Tina Turner, and tunes that carry the swagger of Let It Bleed-era Rolling Stones (as the Philadelphia Daily News put it), Cotton is anything but just another chick singer with a guitar. Which of course means shes still an outsider and a proud one, too.
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