Grace was born in Jersey City, New Jersey but moved to Trenton, NJ at the age at the age of five. Growing up in Trenton with six siblings, Grace’s mother, a gospel singer, and her father, who also sung in the church, inspired her. The family would all come together in the evenings to listen to records and perform some of their favorites. A young Grace was captivated by "Joey" a Natalie Cole tune that she would play over and over again. By age twelve Grace was already doing amazing things; such as her audition, performance, and win at the world famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York
with an astonishing win in the adult category.

At an audition at Trenton Central High School, Grace met a mentor who began giving Grace voice lessons. At age thirteen Grace began performing with a four-piece band. At age seventeen Grace began performing in the theater world. Having signed with a managing company Grace began performing in
famous plays such as "The WIZ", "Dream Girls" (playing Effie, a role that was initially performed by Jennifer Holiday), and "Oh Calcutta". Grace traveled the world with these productions seeing all that the world had to offer.

Grace caught the attention of the musically quintessential Leon Huff, one half of the Philadelphia International Records label while singing at a private party in Camden, New Jersey. Mr. Huff later called Grace to listen to a sound similar in vein to the Electric Slide; the listening of the song titled "The Line Dance" turned into a six month recording project. This project cultivated a full length CD titled "Amazin’ Grace" which was released by P I R. On this release Grace accompanied the Dells on a song entitled "Somebodys Gotta Move" that quickly became an anthem for Washington, DC and Baltimore area.

It is faith and perseverance that’s driven Grace throughout her career, and the strength that carried her thus far. It can be heard in each one of her songs…Concluding that Grace is truly Amazin’.

Rhodes was born in Smithville, Texas, he was the sixth and last child of Le Roy and Julia Smith, who were both sharecroppers. He received his first guitar at the age of eight as a Christmas present and really became serious about the blues at age 12. He credits his uncle as his source of inspiration. Rhodes began performing around Smithville and nearby Austin in the late '50s, while still in his teens. Rhodes listened to a lot of T-Bone Walker when he was young, and it shows in his playing today. Other guitarists he credits as being influences include Pee Wee Crayton and B.B. King. Rhodes's first band, Clarence Smith and the Daylighters, played the Austin area blues clubs before Rhodes decided to join the Navy after graduating from high school.

In the Navy, he moved west to California, where he worked for a while as a radio man and closed-circuit Navy ship disc-jockey, telling off-color jokes in between the country and blues records he would spin for the entertainment of the sailors. Rhodes recorded a single for Domino Records in Austin, "I'll Never Let You Go When Something Is Wrong," in 1958, and also learned to play bass. He played bass behind Freddie King and his friend Albert Collins. After his stint in the Navy, Rhodes returned to California while in his mid-20s, and lived in Fresno for a few years before hooking up a deal with Galaxy Records in Oakland, California. In 1966, he recorded a single, "I Don't Love You No More" b/w "All Night Long I Play the Blues." He recorded another single for Galaxy in 1967 and then in 1978, out of total frustration with the San Francisco Bay Area record companies, he recorded "Cigarette Blues" on his own record label Rhodesway Records in 1978.

Rhodes toured Europe in 1976, and that opened a whole new European market to him, and he was recorded by several European labels, but without much success. His European recordings include I Don't Want My Blues Colored Bright and a live album, In Europe. In desperation again, Rhodes went into the studio again to record an album in 1985, Just Blues, on his own Rhodesway label. Fortunately, things have been on track for Rhodes since the late '80s, when he began recording first for the Ichiban Records and later for Kingsnake. His albums for Ichiban include Disciple of the Blues (1991) and Living Too Close to the Edge (1992). More recently, Rhodes has gotten better distribution of his albums with the Sanford, Florida-based Kingsnake label. Aside from his self-produced 1985 release Just Blues (now available on compact disc through Evidence Music), his best albums include the ones he's recorded for Kingsnake, for these are the records that have gotten Rhodes and his various backup bands out on the road together throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. They include The Blues Is My Best Friend and his 1996 release, Out of Control. On these albums we hear Rhodes, the fully developed songwriter, and not surprisingly, both releases drew high marks from blues critics. He may be best known for recording the theme song for the Firefly television series, "The Ballad of Serenity", which was written by the series' creator, Joss Whedon.

He's a living legend from East Bay Oakland to the Florida coast. He has played at the legendary San Francisco Blues Festival six times; Italy's Musicamdo Jazz & Blues Festival in 2005; and the Fresno Blues Festival in 2007.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially in the case of fiery Philadelphia chanteuse Jaguar Wright. As notorious for her impassioned, spine-tingling vibrato as she is for her show-stealing performance at Jay-Z´s 1999 MTV Unplugged concert with The Roots, Jaguar is the quintessential soul maven. Her sophomore debut, "Divorcing Neo to Marry Soul," is appropriately titled because it not only rids her of the dreaded cloak of the manufactured category "neo-soul," but represents her musical and personal emancipation. "I am truly divorcing everything from before to start fresh and new," says Jaguar, a married mother of two. "The title lets everyone know I´m divorcing the hype to marry the real. I don´t sell anything else but me, or what I believe in or feel. I am finally free to do me, free to do my work."

Through song Jaguar has mastered the art of expressing the ying-yang of raw emotion that is sometimes emotional and resolute in its convictions. The premiere single, the mid-tempo "Free," is an impassioned cry to a jaded former lover who begs to be let out of their relationship. The Philly soul maven´s vocal prowess goes undeterred as she bellows the heartfelt confessional "Woman to Woman," a remake to the 1974 classic by Shirley Brown. "I wanted to revamp it and make it more current. The world has degenerated and changed a great deal since then. I wanted to tell the story of the woman-to-woman song for my generation."
Jaguar continues to air out her feelings with the heartfelt "Let Me Be the One." Serving as a personals ad of sorts, this deliciously coy song is a thinly-veiled promise to deliver the goods to the object of Jag´s desire. When she bellows: "Let me be the one/We could have so much fun/Let me be your girl/I´ll give you the world," you´d almost defy the lucky fellow NOT to choose her. Amid the same backbeat to the 2002 song "Grindin´" by rap group, The Clipse, the head-banging women´s anthem "Timing" condemns the behavior of a past lover by exposing his shortcomings. Jaguar bitterly recounts the shoddy treatment by her former love, singing: "When you came, you had nothing on your plate...Now it´s too late to say sorry, baby." She even takes a sista-girl relationship stance on the confrontational torcher "Told Ya," on which she reprimands a girlfriend for not heeding her advice about a cheating lover. "If she was smart she woulda listened!" Jag laughs.

As such a profound talent, it's hard to fathom that the world may never have received Jaguar's gift of song. Reared in the church, Jaguar's staunchly religious parents did not initially support their daughter's dream of becoming a "secular" singer. But the R&B dynamo knew she'd had tapped into something powerful when she managed to convert the most unlikely of converts-her teacher mom and drug counselor father. "My parents wanted me to take the more traditional route...by becoming a litigator, doctor or a practitioner; a professor or a psychologist," says Jaguar. "My father hated that I was singing. It drove him insane, and now he is biggest fan because I earned his respect. I proved that this is not a dream, this was not a fantasy-- this is my life. Singing was my destiny, even before I was born."

Although her first album, the 2002 effort Denial, Delusions & Decisions yielded a commercial hit ("The What Ifs"), which was featured in the Coca-Cola's "Nu-soul" advertising campaign with The Roots, Jag has learned that industry partnerships aren't everything. Her second coming has not been backed by the The Roots or any other artists for that matter. "I can do this on my own," she says proudly. "I love working with people, but at the end of the day, I want people to know I can shine by myself." Instead, she enlisted the help of production henchman Raphael Saddiq, Chucky Thompson, James Poyser, TL, Larry Gold and Mike City to breathe life into her powerful, poignant words (Jag wrote the entire album with the exception of "Flower").

Jaguar believes her songwriting skills are innate. "From the second you start hearing and articulating sounds and phonics, everything is influencing you," she says. To that end, many of her sonic influences have come from her diverse musical tastes which span decades of song. Those inspirations include Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Van Halen, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Rob Tomas (Matchbox 20), The Doors, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, among others.

One listen to "Divorcing Neo to Marry Soul" and it's evident that Jaguar is an advocate for gut-wrenching soul music, and that's not about to change. "What I am is what I am. Most people come up with a gimmic, and the only gimmick I have is that I am me. Love it or hate it, hate it or love it. Everything I do is based off of real life experiences. I'm eager to share them with my fans."

Accordionist, singer and songwriter Mary Roszela Bellard, "Rosie" Ledet (pronounced led-dett), was raised on rock & roll music. During her teenage years in southwest Louisiana, she listened to classic rock & roll radio stations in nearby Eunice; her favorite groups included Santana and Z.Z. Top.

Like so many other French kids raised in rural southwest Louisiana, she paid no particular attention to all the zydeco music that was around her in her formative years; even though her parents had tried to raise her with a healthy respect for zydeco music, the music held little appeal for her as a kid. But one day, after attending a zydeco dance when she was 16, hearing Boozoo Chavis, and meeting Morris Ledet -- who would later become her husband-- she was smitten.

She married Morris, the bassist in her band, when she was 17, and while he was on the road touring regionally with a group he led, she stayed home and took care of her ailing mother-in-law. It was during this period of several years that Ledet worked on her accordion playing, honing her skills. At first, she would play along to the recordings of Boozoo Chavis and John Delafose. She began to learn songs intuitively, by ear, and one day surprised her husband by playing a complete Delafose song. Her husband encouraged young Rosie to continue in her efforts, and within a matter of months, she had recorded a demo of her own songs and secured a record deal with Maison de Soul, a zydeco label in nearby Ville Platte.

In a very short time, the prolific songwriter released three albums of her own material, with a backing band that included her husband and father-in-law on bass and rub board, respectively. Ledet's albums include Sweet Brown Sugar (1994), Zydeco Sensation (1997) and It's a Groove Thing! (2000), all for the Maison de Soul label of the Flat Town Music Co. in Ville Platte. All of

Ledet's albums showcase superb songs, strong vocals and adequate accordion playing. She and her band began performing in 1994 throughout the Texas-Louisiana triangle, where they continue to concentrate their efforts, and gradually began to spread their touring base to include the rest of the U.S. Ledet and band have been on several European tours as well.