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b. Brooklyn, New York, USA. A singer, writer, remixer and producer, the Angel's talents had largely been honed in her adopted second home of London, England, before she returned to the west coast of America in 1994. Her lively cocktail of funk and jazz dance won her a contract with Delicious Vinyl subsidiary Brass ("I recycle the things I love and give it that 90s edge," she said of her music). She rose to prominence with her first single for Brass, "Spirit Of Love", before embarking on a debut album in 1994.
The Angel left Delicious Vinyl to form her own production company, Devilishly Good Productions. A prominent remixer, she worked on tracks by the Pharcyde, the Brand New Heavies, Donald Byrd, Spearhead and DJ Food. She also collaborated with the Bristol, England-based More Rockers on the Jaz Klash project, which fused drum 'n' bass, hip-hop and jazz in striking fashion. The Thru The Haze album was released in the UK in 1997, the same year the Angel contributed to the soundtrack of the 2Pac movie Gridlock'd. She has continued to work in the film world, scoring Boiler Room, the PBS short Foto-Novelas II: Junkyard Saints, and the documentary Let's Get Frank. She also inaugurated the 60 Channels recording project, recording an album Tuned In Turned On with vocalists Angie Hart, Navigator and Monday Michiru. A second solo album, No Gravity, was released in 2001 on the Angel's own Supa Crucial Recordings label. It featured many of her regular 60 Channels collaborators, and led to the recording of another album by the collective, 2004's Covert Movements.
DISCOGRAPHY: Message From The Angel (Brass 1994)***, with 60 Channels Tuned In Turned On (World Domination 1998)***, No Gravity (Supa Crucial 2001)****, with 60 Channels Covert Movements (Supa Crucial 2004)***.

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