Friday, December 5, 2025
Nikki Forova
Forova’s voice is sweet and distinctive...The strings and brass add luscious layers to her songs. Nikki Forova kept the audience entranced with a whirlwind of songs, both high-flying and touching.”- Music Connection
"Her songs capture such intense feelings of incredible beauty, that it feels like I'm falling in love.” - All Indie Magazine
“Anastasia [Nikki Fovova] is a strong musician, she's trained, she's talented!” - Ron Fair, A&M records ex-president
"Forova’s first break came after she won MTV’s Duets, a national competition, for a chance to perform with Grammy nominated artist Vanessa Carlton. " - www.musicnewsnashville.com
"Her music is able to provoke individuals to seek true spirituality within themselves by reaching out beyond social norms or media conditioning." - Santa Monica Observer
"With the quintessential piano and the rawness of a voice inspired by many famous female singers, she has conjured a new sound that stops any replication." - Interact Live Events
Nikki's changing lifestyle makes her a citizen of the world. Ukraine born artist is now based in London. When Nikki was seven she got a piano as a gift. This unearthed her gift for writing. She received BA in Music Composition and Songwriting at Brigham Young University. Her recognition came through performances in the Los Angeles indie scene and her MTV duet with Vanessa Carlton.
Nikki co-produces all her albums. Her first, "Revving Wings" explors life philosophy and identity, engaging piano, studio strings, drums and sometimes heavy rock guitars. In 2010, Nikki launched into a two year tour to Europe and USA. “With the music conveying a wide range of emotion,” Music Connection wrote, “Nikki Forova kept the audience entranced with a whirlwind of songs, both high-flying and touching.” Nikki's delivery was compared to that of Bjork and Imogen Heap. Her second album "White Dandelions" sound is warm, dominated by piano and strings. Nikki's universal lyrics express the journey of humanity though dark and light to our dreams and love. "Songwriter dreams in flowery and sunken piano ballads...” wrote Rolling Stones Magazine in 2015.
Friday, November 28, 2025
Carter C. Carter
Carter C. Carter creates late-night R&B with a cinematic edge, blending emotional vocals, atmospheric synths, and neon-lit production that feels made for 2AM. Influenced by artists like The Weeknd and M83, CCC’s music drifts between intimate confession and widescreen nostalgia. Each track is built around mood, melody, and storytelling — modern, immersive, and hauntingly personal.
Carter C. Carter continues building a cinematic R&B universe with the release of “My Anchor,” a lush, atmospheric follow-up to the acclaimed debut single “I Miss The Hurt.” Blending dream-pop textures, intimate vocals, and emotional storytelling, CCC delivers a sound that feels tailor-made for late-night listeners.
“My Anchor” explores love, vulnerability, and the quiet stability found in someone who pulls you back from drifting. Its soft synths, warm bass, and airy harmonies expand on the immersive tone established in CCC’s debut — a song praised by A&R Factory as “one of the strongest RnB debuts of the year.”
Where “I Miss The Hurt” captures the ache of nostalgia and emotional dependency, “My Anchor” flips the lens, focusing on connection, safety, and the lifeline we find in others. Together, both singles define CCC’s signature approach:
R&B built like cinema — widescreen, atmospheric, introspective, and deeply human.
With evocative production, neon-lit sound design, and lyrics that hit with vulnerable precision, Carter C. Carter is crafting a world where emotion feels expansive, immersive, and unforgettable. The opening chapters are already resonating — and there’s far more to come.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SCBWd8ewyVw https://youtube.com/shortsHqOa0OljvDQ/
SEND MY ANGEL BACK CHRISTMAS Shaun Connery
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Jamie P Hughes of Broken Toyz and the AI Revolution in the Music Business
RENO, NV [IFS] -- The Whisper That Roared — Jamie P. Hughes and the Rise of AI-Driven Music Innovation
In a story that bridges the analog heart of '90s alt-rock with the algorithmic pulse of 21st-century technology, the legacy of Jamie P. Zikowitz — later known as Jamie P. Hughes — is proving to be more influential than many realized. Once the standout lead vocalist of the band Broken Toyz, under D-Town Records and the direction of music producer Kenneth Howard Smith (aka Kenny Smith), Hughes helped shape what would eventually become a genre-defining sound: Whisper Rock.
Emerging from Denver, Colorado, Jamie brought a distinctive, emotive vocal tone — somewhere between soft rock, soul, and dream pop — that set her apart in the mid-'90s L.A. music scene. Though her band saw limited mainstream fame, her style quietly permeated songwriting circles and resurfaced years later as a leading influence on a new generation of indie artists in the early 2010s.
Whisper Rock’s seed was sown in a forgotten but pivotal single, "That's The Way You Are", from The Girls of D-Town Records, featuring legendary names like Carlena Williams (of Hot Tuna and Peter Frampton's backing group The Blackberries) and Emmy-winning Bernadette Bascom. The fusion of subtle power and melodic intimacy that Jamie embodied would later become the foundation for today’s vocal-forward, introspective pop trends.
But the real twist in Jamie P. Hughes’ story came posthumously — or perhaps post-career — when her archived vocal outtakes were digitized and fed into a groundbreaking music AI system by CKS.AI (Coleman, Kestin & Smith Artificial Intelligence). This partnership led to the creation of a singing, composing AI that debuted on The Felix Album in 2020 — the first musical project to feature a digital robot combining multiple vocal tones in harmony with generated lyrics and instrumentation.
By 2022, the technology had rapidly evolved. CKS.AI’s neural composition bundle had the robot writing, producing, and performing entire tracks. And then, using Hughes’ original vocal samples, it created something extraordinary: a resurrected voice, reborn through artificial intelligence.
This innovation culminated in the release of the Jamie A.I. Album — a fully synthesized vocal record blending Jamie’s tone and emotional nuance with machine-precision production. With over 600 songs now produced using the Jamie A.I. engine, CKS.AI is not just breaking ground in AI music — it's rewriting the boundaries of legacy, authorship, and artistry.
In an industry often known for forgetting its own innovators, Jamie P. Hughes may have just had the last laugh — sung not just in whispers, but in code.
1. A PARTNER IN CRIME
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
2. CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI) - 02:55
3. CAPTURED BY YOUR LOVE
(Lee Rogers Craton - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI) - 02:41
4. DANCING SHADOWS IN MY MIND
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
5. GIVE ME A MINUTE
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
6. GRANDPA'S TONY LLAMAS BOOTS THAT ROGER ROGERS WORE
7. IN THE FALLING RAIN
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
8. IS IT MAGIC IN YOUR TOUCH
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
9. LET'S DON'T AND SAY WE DID
(K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
10. LOVE ECHOES IN THE SKY
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
11. MY ANGEL BABY
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
12. SAY YOU LOVE IT TOO ME
(L L Kestin - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
13. SHE'S ONE OF THOSE GIRLS
(L L Kestin - D E Hall - R M Ormsby - K H Smith - D Hasselhoff)
Keristene Music, Ltd./Metal Mystic Music (BMI)
14. THAT LONG TRAIN RUNNING
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
15. THAT'S THE WAY YOU ARE
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
16. WHAT'S THE MATTER BABY
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
17. WHEN YOUR PLANTS ALL DIE
(J P Hughes - K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI).
18. YOU KEEP HOLDING BACK
(K H Smith) - Keristene Music, Ltd. (BMI)
Hughes also is credited with producing The Impacts surf group of "WIPE OUT" fame, with their only second recorded album Surfin' 101 in the middle 1990's.
http://www.sdcomnimedia.net/sdc-radioworks/



