Jessi Hamilton selected by RockRGrl Magazine as one of the best unsigned female acts in the country.
(27 March 2004)
RockRGrl magazine, the national music publication based in the Northwest US, has selected Jessi Hamilton to be on its Discoveries 2004 CD showcasing the best unsigned female acts in the country. Hamilton was selected after submitting three songs when the competition was announced late last year by the magazine. Hamilton was announced along with 14 other female acts, as a winner in the competition earlier this year, by RockRGrl Editor in Chief, Carla Desantis. Hamilton's composition, “I'll Cry For You” will appear on the CD along with selections from artists such as Molly Bancroft, Jana Peri, Deborah Crooks, Patti Witten, Rachael Sage, Switchblade Kittens, Simon Stinger and Viki Nova, among others. “Jessi Hamilton is a young artist that shows great promise,” says DeSantis. “ ‘I'll Cry For You' is a passionate song, beautifully produced and meticulously arranged. We're proud to have bragging rights, discovering her early in what is sure to be a great career.”
Jessi Hamilton and Randy Newman meet backstage at performance.
(27 March 2004)
Legendary singer/composer/pianist Randy Newman, who remains one of the most awarded and acclaimed artists on the popular music scene, met up with rising star, Jessi Hamilton, at a backstage reception after Newman's March 13th performance with The Rochester
Philharmonic Orchestra. Hamilton, who recorded Newman's compelling love ballad, “Every Time It Rains” for her forthcoming self-titled debut album, presented the acclaimed composer with an advance copy after the show. “Thank you for recording my song,” Newman told Hamilton, who included ‘Every Time It Rains' on her album of mostly all original compositions. “You know, I wrote it for Michael Jackson for his last album, but….he didn't want it.” Newman took Hamilton's CD and promised to listen to it on his trip back to California.
Jessi Hamilton and Lou Gramm to collaborate on Gramm's next solo LP.
(27 March 2004)
Legendary rock vocalist and songwriter Lou Gramm (lead singer of Foreigner) has invited up and coming singer/songwriter Jessi Hamilton to collaborate with him on his new solo album. The record, which Gramm plans to begin recording this spring will be an album of classic rock and roll hits, that are decidedly Gospel and/or spiritual in nature.
“I am honored to be working with (Jessi Hamilton),” Gramm said after a recent meeting and day spent discussing the forthcoming album. Gramm listened to Hamilton's forthcoming self-titled debut album, which he said contained: “great songs, very melodic in their structure; with stong production and amazing vocals.” Also asked to help record and produce Gramm's new album will be Hamilton's producers, Chris Stevens (producer) and Bruce Pilato (co-producer), (who is also her manager). It was Pilato who introduced both Hamilton and Stevens to Gramm, after he gave the classic vocalist an advance copy of the forthcoming Jessi Hamilton debut album.