Fugees Frontman Wyclef Jean Boasts 'Elvis White is a New Movement in Music'; ELVIS WHITE, The Hot New Band from the British Virgin Islands, Gears up for U.S. Debut after Successful European Tour Opening for the Fugees!ATLANTA -- 2005 was an exciting year for British Virgin Island recording group ELVIS WHITE. They opened for two U.S. tours; won the coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. "Best Live Band" award at the Miami Carnival; made a huge splash at the celebrity-studded Hollywood Diversity Awards; recorded a single for their U.S. release with rap superstar AKON; then capped off the year with a whirlwind European tour opening for The Fugees. The band is now gearing up for the biggest party in the Caribbean, The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is celebrated the week before Ash Wednesday. Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is the event of the year. It is said that if the islanders are not celebrating it then they are preparing for it while reminiscing about the past , and readying their first single, "I Promise You," featuring AKON, to hit the U.S. mainstream airwaves in February. "It was a natural gel," states Wyclef, in reference to ELVIS WHITE opening for rap icons, The Fugees. "It was just a natural connection. I am heavily into the Islands and I think it was smart that we had a hot band from the Caribbean opening for us. We could have had a hip hop group open, but it would not have had the same effect. I would look out into the crowd when we hit the stage and see the audience wearing the black who is elvis white? T-shirts... that said ALOT ALOT Allotment ALOT Adaptive Large Optics Technologies ALOT Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking ALOT Maybe you're looking for the two word phrase 'a lot' meaning many? ." ELVIS WHITE, a six-member band from the British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands A British colony in the eastern Caribbean east of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Road Town, on Tortola Island, is the capital. Population: 21,700. Noun 1. , features a similar front lineup to the Fugees. Both Elvis and his sideman side·man n. A member of a jazz band who is not the leader or a featured soloist. , rapper/singer Toro Toro may refer to:
"America is opening up to Caribbean music more than it has ever done," states Clef, "...and watching this movement, it feels like the Elvis movement. It's like Elvis is the Godfather and these are all his kids." The album features production by Salaam Remi (The Fugees, Kevin Lyttle, Rupee RUPEE, comm. law. A denomination of money in Bengal. In the computation of ad valorem duties, it is valued at fifty-five and one half cents. Act of March 2, 1799, s. 61; 1 Story's L. U. S. 627. Vide Foreign coins. 2. , Nas); Cory Rooney (Jennifer Lopez, Destiny's Child, Marc Anthony, Michael Jackson) and rap superstar AKON, who produced and is featured on ELVIS WHITE's first U.S. single, "I Promise You." ELVIS WHITE is slated to release their debut U.S. album, entitled PROMISE, May 16 on 17.20/Bungalo/Universal Records. |
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